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> it’s funny how halo and bungi hide behindXbox LIVE Code of Conduct and Terms of Use. it is not xbox live code of conduct. these bans are negotiable because it never happens on any other game than halo. check w/ your local attorney for help and have them write a nice little letter. you paid for a subscription and you have rights and contracts thru xbox live. these r general bans based on profiling which is illegal in all 50 states.
So if you created an Xbox LIVE account and are using it, you agreed to Terms of Use and Code of Conduct which covers aspects not limited to but including cheating. Code of Conduct and Terms of Use are actually legal binding agreements that have to be agreed upon in order to use Xbox LIVE. Even though you are indeed paying for a service, Xbox LIVE, you did agree to those legal binding agreements in order to use it. When you agreed to said terms, you agreed to the rights you would and would not have in order to use said service. 343 Industries and Halo is not hiding behing anything.
With that said if you were forsay to get an attorney and argue this, you would be wasting your own money because the attorney themselves would tell you that Code of Conduct and Terms of Use are indeed legal binding agreements and due to Terms of Use stating that you are responsible for ALL actions on your Xbox LIVE account, any form of action from you that would lead to a ban to any game would not be arguable.
From Terms of Use:
Because information personal to your Xbox Live subscription will thereafter be available to you via the Xbox Live, you are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Microsoft Account password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account on the Xbox Live. Microsoft will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your account, either with or without your knowledge.
Which brings me to the aspect of your argument about bans only happening on Halo on the Xbox Platform. Actually bans can occur in other LIVE based games as well, such as for example the Destiny games, Forza games, and Call of Duty games. These examples also do not allow cheating and do indeed punish players who they catch doing so. Also, do not forget the Xbox LIVE Enforcement Team who investigates reports and suspicious activity and can issue Gamerscore Reset, Mute Bans, Profile Bans, and/or Console Bans if they feel there is sufficient evidence that a player was cheating in an extreme case. There is zero justification of cheating with the binding agreements in place unless the game developer has deliberately enabled cheats.
So with that said, I am curious to hear how the bans mentioned in this thread are profiling, especially when people chose to AFC/AFK/Idle , Boost/Statpad, Mod, Lagswitch, etc. (which at the end of the day falls into some iteration of cheating and/or griefing and/or degrading of LIVEs Services and Gameplay Experience for others) when they also agreed to those binding agreements that clearly stated not to do so and what the potential consequences would be should they do so. These players who were banned chose to violate the binding agreements they agreed to, and hence are now dealing with the consequences of that.
If you do not like the binding agreements you agreed to, you can choose to simply use your Xbox Offline and not use Xbox LIVE, or for that matter not use/play any service that uses LIVE at all. Also for the Halo games 343 Industries is in control of Halo, not Bungie as they handed Halo over to Microsoft and 343i years ago and now have their Destiny franchise.
Also, are you the 13 year old son to the father that wanted an inquiry on a ban on his son and wife here in 2012? If so, it seems you did not get the message from your father regarding the banhammer and Code of Conduct. Your typing as well as your post history really hints at that.
you’re more than welcome!