Why Did I Get Banned - The Official Thread

JacketCrown , I have taken a look into your temp Console cR ban by looking at your Reach stats and Reach Game History.

I see an awful lot of Grifball being played, but in the same retrospect, I don’t see signs of Boosting and Statpadding, so that is out of the question. However alot of your games have either 0 spread or a negative K/D, so I have to ask did you complete all of your games or have you been playing alot of ‘peace’ games to exploit the Performance Bonus in Grifball, especially with using a Guest account to increase the odds of a peace game?

If you have not completed all of your games, your ban would come from that. The automated Banhammer will keep tally of DNFed (Did Not Finish) games and once it either hits a ratio or simply alot are DNF within a short time, the Automated Banhammer will issue a ban. Also games where you have 0 kills are considered as DNF by the banhammer due to them being treated as AFKing/AFCing (Idle/Away from Controller), which in elevated cases will be seen as boosting and issue a cR ban instead of an overall temp ban.

Also, if you are using a guest account, if that guest account gets 0 kills, that is still counted towards the main account it is linked to and also treated as AFCing/AFKing on the main account.

If you are exploiting the Performance Bonus in Grifball by having Peace games, the automated banhammer caught you doing something you shouldn’t be doing and rightfully issued a temp. cR ban. Grifball is an objective based gametype, where the goal is to score the objective. It was not designed to be exploited to boost cR. Boosting is a form of cheating and hence violates LIVE Code of Conduct . If you were doing this, to prevent a future and potentially permanent cR ban, play Grifball the way it was meant to be played.

Hope this helps and have a nice day now.

I have been playing the game like its supposed to be played but then i get banned mid game

So i was playing halo late at night switching from team swat and grifball trying to complete challenges and im 5k credits away from getting the mjonir 5 but i ended up getting tired so i left the game i was playing in i didnt get matchmaking banned i got credit banned the very next day when i went to play halo. Its been one day (i think not sure exactly when the ban was placed) and im still banned. I just want to know how long it will take for me to get unbanned because im almost a commander or even get it lifted if thats an option.

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> Good news: The vast majority of you reading this will never need to post in this thread.
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> Bad news: If you are checking this page because of an in-game message, it is likely that you have been banned for violating the terms of use and/or committing a code of conduct violation. It is also possible in the case of an especially egregious violation, that your Xbox 360 system itself is now banned from Matchmaking. The duration of this ban will be based on the type, frequency or nature of the committed violation.
>
> In most cases, Custom Games will still be available. In extreme cases, they will not.
>
> Types of violation include, but are not limited to, the following example actions:• Manipulating network conditions to give yourself an advantage, or to the detriment of the experience for other players.
> • Modifying your Xbox 360 hardware or game software and services in any way.
> • Skill, EXP, or Credit Boosting, deleveling, idling through games, cheating, habitual quitting or any other type of unsociable and unsportsmanlike behavior.
> • Impersonating a Bungie, 343, or Microsoft employee on Xbox LIVE with intent to defraud or cause harm to other players.
>
> The following things will not result in a visit from the Banhammer:• Lag (poor or intermittent network performance).
> • Occasional disconnects due to inconsistent network conditions.
>
> Please note that while this process is automated, it is accurate. Bans are almost certainly legitimate, and will stay in force for their stated duration. To keep your matchmaking privileges in good standing, immediately cease any unsociable behavior and wait out the ban. Either way, there will be no response communication from this process.
>
> **Below are some sample questions and answers.***I shouldn’t be banned. My brother/sister/cousin/dad/mom/friend must’ve logged on with my account and done bad things. Will you please reverse my ban?*If this is indeed the case, we do understand your frustration. However, it is your sole responsibility to keep your account information secure and not share it with others who would abuse it. We have no way of detecting who is playing with your account, and if your gamertag is caught making naughty, you will be banned. Those are the rules.
>
> *I didn’t do anything wrong, and you can’t prove it. Will you please reverse my ban?*No. Like it says above, our automated system builds up a digital case of wrongdoing before any ban is enacted. If you accidentally disconnect a time or two, you won’t get banned. Instead the system looks for patterns that can’t happen accidentally. If the banhammer detects enough wrongdoing, you were doing wrong. Case closed.
>
> *Will posting in this thread guarantee my ban will be lifted and that someone will respond personally to every post?*Unfortunately, no. We simply don’t have enough eyes, ears and typing hands to respond to every single post. However, the community will help keep you honest. You have a public game history for everyone to see. If you post you were banned unjustly, the community is in their rights to check out your history to confirm or deny your claims. Please, just keep it clean.
>
> The purpose of this thread is to keep all questions pertaining to bans in one place. Without a megathread for such questions, the rest of the forum will almost certainly turn into a cavalcade of ban questions.
>
> If you were banned and think you have a case, this is the ONLY thread you should post in. If other moderators see posts pertaining to bans in other threads, they will either be deleted outright or a kind-hearted mod might just move the posts to this thread.
>
> If any users are caught habitually spamming ban threads in other threads, we will consider that a violation of the forum Terms of Use. You will risk being banned here as well. We don’t want to have to ban anyone, but we do want an open, honest and positive place to post about all things Halo, so a thread like this is necessary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Total Sellout

Okay well i love playing halo reach and friday night at 2:40 am i was playing a bit of games and then i started to get tired so i left the current game i was in. The next day i got credit banned for no reason i went to go grab a drink for a little and then logged out and forgot to take reach’s disc out and just turned off the xbox whole by cable. Is there anyway to get to know how long my ban is or if i could get it lifted. (i dont boost i maintain a healthy amount of gameplay from swat to double team and grifball along with challenges)

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> JacketCrown , I have taken a look into your temp Console cR ban by looking at your Reach stats and Reach Game History.
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> I see an awful lot of Grifball being played, but in the same retrospect, I don’t see signs of Boosting and Statpadding, so that is out of the question. However alot of your games have either 0 spread or a negative K/D, so I have to ask did you complete all of your games or have you been playing alot of ‘peace’ games to exploit the Performance Bonus in Grifball, especially with using a Guest account to increase the odds of a peace game?
>
> If you have not completed all of your games, your ban would come from that. The automated Banhammer will keep tally of DNFed (Did Not Finish) games and once it either hits a ratio or simply alot are DNF within a short time, the Automated Banhammer will issue a ban. Also games where you have 0 kills are considered as DNF by the banhammer due to them being treated as AFKing/AFCing (Idle/Away from Controller), which in elevated cases will be seen as boosting and issue a cR ban instead of an overall temp ban.
>
> Also, if you are using a guest account, if that guest account gets 0 kills, that is still counted towards the main account it is linked to and also treated as AFCing/AFKing on the main account.
>
> If you are exploiting the Performance Bonus in Grifball by having Peace games, the automated banhammer caught you doing something you shouldn’t be doing and rightfully issued a temp. cR ban. Grifball is an objective based gametype, where the goal is to score the objective. It was not designed to be exploited to boost cR. Boosting is a form of cheating and hence violates LIVE Code of Conduct . If you were doing this, to prevent a future and potentially permanent cR ban, play Grifball the way it was meant to be played.
>
> Hope this helps and have a nice day now.

I don’t do peace games but whenever i see a higher rank like inheritor i back off so i don’t get spawn killed. My 24 hour ban is gone but now i got another and it hasnt gone away nor did i do anything to make it happen. I even have proof that i dont approve of boosting.

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> > JacketCrown , I have taken a look into your temp Console cR ban by looking at your Reach stats and Reach Game History.
> >
> > I see an awful lot of Grifball being played, but in the same retrospect, I don’t see signs of Boosting and Statpadding, so that is out of the question. However alot of your games have either 0 spread or a negative K/D, so I have to ask did you complete all of your games or have you been playing alot of ‘peace’ games to exploit the Performance Bonus in Grifball, especially with using a Guest account to increase the odds of a peace game?
> >
> > If you have not completed all of your games, your ban would come from that. The automated Banhammer will keep tally of DNFed (Did Not Finish) games and once it either hits a ratio or simply alot are DNF within a short time, the Automated Banhammer will issue a ban. Also games where you have 0 kills are considered as DNF by the banhammer due to them being treated as AFKing/AFCing (Idle/Away from Controller), which in elevated cases will be seen as boosting and issue a cR ban instead of an overall temp ban.
> >
> > Also, if you are using a guest account, if that guest account gets 0 kills, that is still counted towards the main account it is linked to and also treated as AFCing/AFKing on the main account.
> >
> > If you are exploiting the Performance Bonus in Grifball by having Peace games, the automated banhammer caught you doing something you shouldn’t be doing and rightfully issued a temp. cR ban. Grifball is an objective based gametype, where the goal is to score the objective. It was not designed to be exploited to boost cR. Boosting is a form of cheating and hence violates LIVE Code of Conduct . If you were doing this, to prevent a future and potentially permanent cR ban, play Grifball the way it was meant to be played.
> >
> > Hope this helps and have a nice day now.
>
> I don’t do peace games but whenever i see a higher rank like inheritor i back off so i don’t get spawn killed. My 24 hour ban is gone but now i got another and it hasnt gone away nor did i do anything to make it happen. I even have proof that i dont approve of boosting.

From what I can tell, as I initially stated, you keep leaving games instead of completing them, which is why you keep recieving a ban since you are playing legit based upon your past history and what you typed. I know it sucks, but you have to play your games through beginning to end in matchmaking.

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> > Good news: The vast majority of you reading this will never need to post in this thread.
> >
> > Bad news: If you are checking this page because of an in-game message, it is likely that you have been banned for violating the terms of use and/or committing a code of conduct violation. It is also possible in the case of an especially egregious violation, that your Xbox 360 system itself is now banned from Matchmaking. The duration of this ban will be based on the type, frequency or nature of the committed violation.
> >
> > In most cases, Custom Games will still be available. In extreme cases, they will not.
> >
> > Types of violation include, but are not limited to, the following example actions:• Manipulating network conditions to give yourself an advantage, or to the detriment of the experience for other players.
> > • Modifying your Xbox 360 hardware or game software and services in any way.
> > • Skill, EXP, or Credit Boosting, deleveling, idling through games, cheating, habitual quitting or any other type of unsociable and unsportsmanlike behavior.
> > • Impersonating a Bungie, 343, or Microsoft employee on Xbox LIVE with intent to defraud or cause harm to other players.
> >
> > The following things will not result in a visit from the Banhammer:• Lag (poor or intermittent network performance).
> > • Occasional disconnects due to inconsistent network conditions.
> >
> > Please note that while this process is automated, it is accurate. Bans are almost certainly legitimate, and will stay in force for their stated duration. To keep your matchmaking privileges in good standing, immediately cease any unsociable behavior and wait out the ban. Either way, there will be no response communication from this process.
> >
> > **Below are some sample questions and answers.***I shouldn’t be banned. My brother/sister/cousin/dad/mom/friend must’ve logged on with my account and done bad things. Will you please reverse my ban?*If this is indeed the case, we do understand your frustration. However, it is your sole responsibility to keep your account information secure and not share it with others who would abuse it. We have no way of detecting who is playing with your account, and if your gamertag is caught making naughty, you will be banned. Those are the rules.
> >
> > *I didn’t do anything wrong, and you can’t prove it. Will you please reverse my ban?*No. Like it says above, our automated system builds up a digital case of wrongdoing before any ban is enacted. If you accidentally disconnect a time or two, you won’t get banned. Instead the system looks for patterns that can’t happen accidentally. If the banhammer detects enough wrongdoing, you were doing wrong. Case closed.
> >
> > *Will posting in this thread guarantee my ban will be lifted and that someone will respond personally to every post?*Unfortunately, no. We simply don’t have enough eyes, ears and typing hands to respond to every single post. However, the community will help keep you honest. You have a public game history for everyone to see. If you post you were banned unjustly, the community is in their rights to check out your history to confirm or deny your claims. Please, just keep it clean.
> >
> > The purpose of this thread is to keep all questions pertaining to bans in one place. Without a megathread for such questions, the rest of the forum will almost certainly turn into a cavalcade of ban questions.
> >
> > If you were banned and think you have a case, this is the ONLY thread you should post in. If other moderators see posts pertaining to bans in other threads, they will either be deleted outright or a kind-hearted mod might just move the posts to this thread.
> >
> > If any users are caught habitually spamming ban threads in other threads, we will consider that a violation of the forum Terms of Use. You will risk being banned here as well. We don’t want to have to ban anyone, but we do want an open, honest and positive place to post about all things Halo, so a thread like this is necessary.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Total Sellout
>
> Okay well i love playing halo reach and friday night at 2:40 am i was playing a bit of games and then i started to get tired so i left the current game i was in. The next day i got credit banned for no reason i went to go grab a drink for a little and then logged out and forgot to take reach’s disc out and just turned off the xbox whole by cable. Is there anyway to get to know how long my ban is or if i could get it lifted. (i dont boost i maintain a healthy amount of gameplay from swat to double team and grifball along with challenges)

Also make sure you get at least one kill per game as well, or the banhammer will think you are AFC/AFKing (Idling) and that game will count as incomplete. There really isn’t much else I can say or do to help you. Play your games out.

How can someone get banned in Halo? I got banned once for two weeks just by using camouflage.

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> How can someone get banned in Halo? I got banned once for two weeks just by using camouflage.

Basically, follow what I paste below and you shouldn’t get banned in Halo:

-copy and paste from earlier in thread-

  • Play out all/the majority of your matchmaking games beginning to end. - Don’t be unsporting.-Not limited to but including as examples:
  1. Intentional Teamkilling for any reason is unsporting and if you are booted from a game, the game is counted as a DNF/Did not Finish.
  2. Griefing a game. Basically finding a way to intentionally ruin the gameplay experience for other players, which can include spawncampkilling, lagswtiching, and modding.
  3. Trashtalking
  • Get at least one kill in every matchmaking game. - Do not idle/AFC/AFK (Away from controller) - Don’t exploit gametypes, game functions, and/or glitches to boost cR, Commedations, and K/D.-Not limited to but including as examples:
  1. ‘Peace Games’ in Grifball
  2. ‘Spawncampkilling’ to statpad, boost cR and Commedations. It is one thing to do so for a couple of seconds to score an objective as that is strategy, but to do so repeatedly for extended durations for boosting purposes is cheating due to exploiting the objective gametype, and if reported by enough people through LIVE’s Report feature can lead to a ban.
  • Do not use network manipulation to gain an advantage and/or give yourself additional cR you did not earn.-Not limited to but including as examples:
  • Lagswitching - Challenge Resetting - Modding - Do not mod your Halo Reach profile or any aspect of your Xbox 360/One profile, files, and/or account. - Do not play Halo Reach or any game with somebody you know is modding the game, their 360/One profile, files and/or account. - Do not violate LIVE Code of Conduct or Terms of Use .This seems pretty simple to me, play the game it was meant to be played and don’t break the binding agreement you created when you created your LIVE account (Code of Conduct). Game stats and history do not lie either, so it is usually obvious when somebody does something I mentioned above that you shouldn’t do.

As for your mentioned ban (The two week ban), was it in Halo 5? The reason why I ask is that doesn’t seem possible in Reach, but possible in Halo 5, as I can see somebody getting active camo, idling, and then the game booting and banning them (Due to Halo 5’s stricter banhammer). You also don’t have much of a Reach Game History, but have played alot of Halo 5.

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> > How can someone get banned in Halo? I got banned once for two weeks just by using camouflage.
>
> Basically, follow what I paste below and you shouldn’t get banned in Halo:
>
> -copy and paste from earlier in thread-
>
>
> - Play out all/the majority of your matchmaking games beginning to end. - Don’t be unsporting.-Not limited to but including as examples:
> 1. Intentional Teamkilling for any reason is unsporting and if you are booted from a game, the game is counted as a DNF/Did not Finish.
> 2. Griefing a game. Basically finding a way to intentionally ruin the gameplay experience for other players, which can include spawncampkilling, lagswtiching, and modding.
> 3. Trashtalking
> - Get at least one kill in every matchmaking game. - Do not idle/AFC/AFK (Away from controller) - Don’t exploit gametypes, game functions, and/or glitches to boost cR, Commedations, and K/D.-Not limited to but including as examples:
> 1. ‘Peace Games’ in Grifball
> 2. ‘Spawncampkilling’ to statpad, boost cR and Commedations. It is one thing to do so for a couple of seconds to score an objective as that is strategy, but to do so repeatedly for extended durations for boosting purposes is cheating due to exploiting the objective gametype, and if reported by enough people through LIVE’s Report feature can lead to a ban.
> - Do not use network manipulation to gain an advantage and/or give yourself additional cR you did not earn.-Not limited to but including as examples:
> - Lagswitching - Challenge Resetting - Modding - Do not mod your Halo Reach profile or any aspect of your Xbox 360/One profile, files, and/or account. - Do not play Halo Reach or any game with somebody you know is modding the game, their 360/One profile, files and/or account. - Do not violate LIVE Code of Conduct or Terms of Use .This seems pretty simple to me, play the game it was meant to be played and don’t break the binding agreement you created when you created your LIVE account (Code of Conduct). Game stats and history do not lie either, so it is usually obvious when somebody does something I mentioned above that you shouldn’t do.
>
> As for your mentioned ban (The two week ban), was it in Halo 5? The reason why I ask is that doesn’t seem possible in Reach, but possible in Halo 5, as I can see somebody getting active camo, idling, and then the game booting and banning them (Due to Halo 5’s stricter banhammer). You also don’t have much of a Reach Game History, but have played alot of Halo 5.

Yeah it was in Halo 5, I used to play reach in a different account but I lost it. I didn’t idle or anything like that, some guy sent me a message saying “You are using camo, what a ***** I will report you” and there you have it, two weeks without online service or anything like that

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> > > How can someone get banned in Halo? I got banned once for two weeks just by using camouflage.
> >
> > Basically, follow what I paste below and you shouldn’t get banned in Halo:
> > -copy and paste from earlier in thread-
> > - Play out all/the majority of your matchmaking games beginning to end. - Don’t be unsporting.-Not limited to but including as examples:
> > 1. Intentional Teamkilling for any reason is unsporting and if you are booted from a game, the game is counted as a DNF/Did not Finish.
> > 2. Griefing a game. Basically finding a way to intentionally ruin the gameplay experience for other players, which can include spawncampkilling, lagswtiching, and modding.
> > 3. Trashtalking
> > - Get at least one kill in every matchmaking game. - Do not idle/AFC/AFK (Away from controller) - Don’t exploit gametypes, game functions, and/or glitches to boost cR, Commedations, and K/D.-Not limited to but including as examples:
> > 1. ‘Peace Games’ in Grifball
> > 2. ‘Spawncampkilling’ to statpad, boost cR and Commedations. It is one thing to do so for a couple of seconds to score an objective as that is strategy, but to do so repeatedly for extended durations for boosting purposes is cheating due to exploiting the objective gametype, and if reported by enough people through LIVE’s Report feature can lead to a ban.
> > - Do not use network manipulation to gain an advantage and/or give yourself additional cR you did not earn.-Not limited to but including as examples:
> > - Lagswitching - Challenge Resetting - Modding - Do not mod your Halo Reach profile or any aspect of your Xbox 360/One profile, files, and/or account. - Do not play Halo Reach or any game with somebody you know is modding the game, their 360/One profile, files and/or account. - Do not violate LIVE Code of Conduct or Terms of Use .This seems pretty simple to me, play the game it was meant to be played and don’t break the binding agreement you created when you created your LIVE account (Code of Conduct). Game stats and history do not lie either, so it is usually obvious when somebody does something I mentioned above that you shouldn’t do.
> > As for your mentioned ban (The two week ban), was it in Halo 5? The reason why I ask is that doesn’t seem possible in Reach, but possible in Halo 5, as I can see somebody getting active camo, idling, and then the game booting and banning them (Due to Halo 5’s stricter banhammer). You also don’t have much of a Reach Game History, but have played alot of Halo 5.
>
> Yeah it was in Halo 5, I used to play reach in a different account but I lost it. I didn’t idle or anything like that, some guy sent me a message saying “You are using camo, what a ***** I will report you” and there you have it, two weeks without online service or anything like that

Sounds like the individual did something other than report you. You couldn’t log onto LIVE for two weeks is what your saying? If that is the case, then he DDoSed you (Denial of Service attack), which can lead to that person getting permabanned from Xbox LIVE for violating Code of Conduct in a more extreme case, where not just is he intentionally deteriorating the gameplay experience for others, in your case you, he outright prevented you from recieving the LIVE service and all features you are paying for as a result of having LIVE Gold via network manipulation. If this is the case, I would recommend you file a report against his account, any form of Tampering would do.

If that is not the case, and you found yourself banned not too long after he said it, he likely had a bunch of his buddies report you, which is abuse of LIVE services, so he can get in trouble for that as well. Either way, I would recommend you file a report against said individual’s account and Block Communications with that person if you feel he wronged you.

Hope that helps and have a nice day now.

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> > Disregard the last post, it ended this morning.
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> Problem solved. See this thread is working already. :slight_smile:

great

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> How can someone get banned in Halo? I got banned once for two weeks just by using camouflage.

and i

I wish there was a ban for people using grifball to credit boost by not actually playing the game the way it was intended. Grifball used to be fun and competitive but now it’s just full of credit boosters who waste time to get more credits.

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I’ve been banned before.

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This credit ban BS is annoying and I can’t do any of the challenges if I’m getting banned every 5 seconds. I haven’t idled or quit any games and I just got screwed over when I was about to complete the weekly for 20,000 CR 343 or bungie needs to take this retarded crap off so we can enjoy and play the game…

I was credit banned tonight after leaving a game where people were using mods, they were using guns in a grifball match. It was my first, I think, game quit today and I did not use the mods myself. There are games where it registers I got 0 kills only because I didn’t kill the enemy team, my hot tempered self will betray back if I’m betray that is clearly not on accident. I want to know why I was credit banned and for how long because the message I got did not specify either. I also want to know if it is at all possible to get it lifted because I did not grifball boost, go AFK, cheat, reach credit cap, or anything else I can think of at the moment to be credit banned. Thanks for reading all this

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> I was credit banned tonight after leaving a game where people were using mods, they were using guns in a grifball match. It was my first, I think, game quit today and I did not use the mods myself. There are games where it registers I got 0 kills only because I didn’t kill the enemy team, my hot tempered self will betray back if I’m betray that is clearly not on accident. I want to know why I was credit banned and for how long because the message I got did not specify either. I also want to know if it is at all possible to get it lifted because I did not grifball boost, go AFK, cheat, reach credit cap, or anything else I can think of at the moment to be credit banned. Thanks for reading all this

Good afternoon.

First, you did the right thing by leaving a modded game. By doing so, you didn’t potentially earn yourself a permanent cR or outright ban from Reach, and also in doing so did not violate LIVE Code of Conduct. Great job by making the right call there :slight_smile:

As for your cR ban, your games registered with 0 kills is likely the reason why you recieved a cR ban. The automated banhammer considers games with no kills as AFC/AFKing (Away from controller/Idling) and will treat them as incomplete games or DNF/Did Not Finish. The automated banhammer likely thought you were cR boosting via idling due to alot of games with 0 kills and hence issued the ban. If it is your first cR ban, I think 24-48 hours is the duration, though I am not sure.

Particularly in Grifball only as betray booting is disabled, the only way you can potentially earn yourself any ban by betraying is by being consistently reported by other players via LIVE’s Report system due to consistently assisting with ‘peace’ games and/or spawncampkilling.

Hope this helps and have a nice day now.

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6 years later and Reach is a distant memory. Halo Reach needs to be remastered for Xbox one, so many people would buy it. 343 ruined Halo after Bungie left. Where is the Halo that I love? -GeneralHydra99

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> > I was credit banned tonight after leaving a game where people were using mods, they were using guns in a grifball match. It was my first, I think, game quit today and I did not use the mods myself. There are games where it registers I got 0 kills only because I didn’t kill the enemy team, my hot tempered self will betray back if I’m betray that is clearly not on accident. I want to know why I was credit banned and for how long because the message I got did not specify either. I also want to know if it is at all possible to get it lifted because I did not grifball boost, go AFK, cheat, reach credit cap, or anything else I can think of at the moment to be credit banned. Thanks for reading all this
>
> Good afternoon.
>
> First, you did the right thing by leaving a modded game. By doing so, you didn’t potentially earn yourself a permanent cR or outright ban from Reach, and also in doing so did not violate LIVE Code of Conduct. Great job by making the right call there :slight_smile:
>
> As for your cR ban, your games registered with 0 kills is likely the reason why you recieved a cR ban. The automated banhammer considers games with no kills as AFC/AFKing (Away from controller/Idling) and will treat them as incomplete games or DNF/Did Not Finish. The automated banhammer likely thought you were cR boosting via idling due to alot of games with 0 kills and hence issued the ban. If it is your first cR ban, I think 24-48 hours is the duration, though I am not sure.
>
> Particularly in Grifball only as betray booting is disabled, the only way you can potentially earn yourself any ban by betraying is by being consistently reported by other players via LIVE’s Report system due to consistently assisting with ‘peace’ games and/or spawncampkilling.
>
> Hope this helps and have a nice day now.

It’s been a few days now and the ban has not been lifted yet, is it gonna last a whole week? Or even more. I continued playing even though I was banned and never left any games and always got a few kills, it’s the best I can do with my bad connection, all the message says is “This account has been temporarily banned from earning credits” and yesterday the ban added my console saying “This. Xbox 360 console has been temporarily banned from earning credits”

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> > > I was credit banned tonight after leaving a game where people were using mods, they were using guns in a grifball match. It was my first, I think, game quit today and I did not use the mods myself. There are games where it registers I got 0 kills only because I didn’t kill the enemy team, my hot tempered self will betray back if I’m betray that is clearly not on accident. I want to know why I was credit banned and for how long because the message I got did not specify either. I also want to know if it is at all possible to get it lifted because I did not grifball boost, go AFK, cheat, reach credit cap, or anything else I can think of at the moment to be credit banned. Thanks for reading all this
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> > Good afternoon.
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> > First, you did the right thing by leaving a modded game. By doing so, you didn’t potentially earn yourself a permanent cR or outright ban from Reach, and also in doing so did not violate LIVE Code of Conduct. Great job by making the right call there :slight_smile:
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> > As for your cR ban, your games registered with 0 kills is likely the reason why you recieved a cR ban. The automated banhammer considers games with no kills as AFC/AFKing (Away from controller/Idling) and will treat them as incomplete games or DNF/Did Not Finish. The automated banhammer likely thought you were cR boosting via idling due to alot of games with 0 kills and hence issued the ban. If it is your first cR ban, I think 24-48 hours is the duration, though I am not sure.
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> > Particularly in Grifball only as betray booting is disabled, the only way you can potentially earn yourself any ban by betraying is by being consistently reported by other players via LIVE’s Report system due to consistently assisting with ‘peace’ games and/or spawncampkilling.
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> > Hope this helps and have a nice day now.
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> It’s been a few days now and the ban has not been lifted yet, is it gonna last a whole week? Or even more. I continued playing even though I was banned and never left any games and always got a few kills, it’s the best I can do with my bad connection, all the message says is “This account has been temporarily banned from earning credits” and yesterday the ban added my console saying “This. Xbox 360 console has been temporarily banned from earning credits”

Something seems off here. A first offense last 24-48 hours under normal circumstances. Are you being disconnected from games at all? That would cause you to have incomplete games (DNF/Did not Finish), which could cause your ban to be extended.

Also, I am thinking something may have happened with you being in that modded game. It is possible that said player may have tricked the banhammer into thinking you did something wrong despite leaving the game. Console bans (Even temporary ones) usually only occur when a player is doing something they shouldn’t be doing (Such as for example using a guest/another account on the same Xbox to fill space in a game to have them idle, so a player has higher odds of earning kills and cR).

This is what I am going to recommend to stress test this. If you can play other games, do so for a week. If the ban is not lifted by then, then the ban was the result of being in the modded game and since you left as you should have, and didn’t violate Code of Conduct hence, at that point, I would recommend you reaching out to Grimbrother One on Twitter on the matter, as you took the right actions and are not then deserving of a ban.