Why Did I Get Banned - The Official Thread

Hi Everyone,

My gamertag is wobots and my boyfriend’s gamertag is GreenPheonix4. He is a Reclaimer and I am Sergeant Grade 1. He has been playing Halo for years whereas I have only played on consoles like Super Nintendo and Nintendo DS (2D as opposed to the XBox’s full 360 rotation).

I AM AN AWFUL PLAYER! but I keep playing Halo because I enjoy playing with his friends (via headsets) and I want to get better. I tend to average between 0 and 2 kills. Sometimes I get three if I’m lucky.

We have been credit banned from Halo Reach three times. The first two times, we were playing together and tonight we were both banned even though I was the only one playing. I don’t think it is fair that we are getting credit banned because I am not cheating, I am just a terrible terrible player.

This is discouraging me from playing Halo because I don’t want my boyfriend to get credit banned repeatedly because of me :frowning:

Can someone please help me?

> Hi Everyone,
>
> My gamertag is wobots and my boyfriend’s gamertag is GreenPheonix4. He is a Reclaimer and I am Sergeant Grade 1. He has been playing Halo for years whereas I have only played on consoles like Super Nintendo and Nintendo DS (2D as opposed to the XBox’s full 360 rotation).
>
> I AM AN AWFUL PLAYER! but I keep playing Halo because I enjoy playing with his friends (via headsets) and I want to get better. I tend to average between 0 and 2 kills. Sometimes I get three if I’m lucky.
>
> We have been credit banned from Halo Reach three times. The first two times, we were playing together and tonight we were both banned even though I was the only one playing. I don’t think it is fair that we are getting credit banned because I am not cheating, I am just a terrible terrible player.
>
> This is discouraging me from playing Halo because I don’t want my boyfriend to get credit banned repeatedly because of me :frowning:
>
> Can someone please help me?

If one profile gets banned it effects all Gamertags on that console. So you coulde always get a cheap Xbox where you can play with your GT when playing solo, this way your BF wont get banned. But there will still be a Ban problem if you splitcreen and you get 0 kills.

Hello, once again i was banned for my wife playing, she gets almost no kills and sometimes none. Last night my console was banned along with my account her account and my friends account J9x.Inca. Please unban us, thank you ahead of time, you can clearly see in game history we were not afking, leaving games, or cheating in anyways. Thank you

> Hello, once again i was banned for my wife playing, she gets almost no kills and sometimes none. Last night my console was banned along with my account her account and my friends account J9x.Inca. Please unban us, thank you ahead of time, you can clearly see in game history we were not afking, leaving games, or cheating in anyways. Thank you

I’ve been checking through your history and it seems you lag out of games A LOT, which could result in a quit ban.

Also, you won’t get unbanned, the system banned you for AFKing, anyone can use ‘the wife’ claim these days, your ban will expire in a week if its a second offence.

This post has been edited by a moderator. Please do not call out individuals. This includes forum members, moderators, administrators, and non-forum members.

>

  1. Calling out users, for whatever reason is against the rules.
  2. I just checked the user you said and the games I see, has no AFK guests, as long as the people in the game are playing at the time, which by the looks of it they are, it is allowed, if one of them is AFK, it is bannable.

Wow, how do you get 500 kills in a 5 minute game of griff ball? I’m lucky if I get 25, lol.

> Wow, how do you get 500 kills in a 5 minute game of griff ball? I’m lucky if I get 25, lol.

Full Party Boosting - which is totally legal.

I am unsure if i have been banned, i cannot connect to xbox live at all on Halo: Reach, and i cant have been banned for doing anything wrong because i havent played for about 3 months because i have been on MW3, well i did manage to play one game online thats it… (Ive also been reset to recruit and a message pops up on screen even when i scroll down a helmet or chest in the armoury, i get this**“Failed to write Gamer Profile setting. One Possible reason is if you removed your Xbox 360 Memory Unit. Changes to your profile setting might not be saved.”**, i get this everytime i scroll from one piece of armour to the next…

If i have been banned will this carry over to Halo 4, if yes im certainly not wasting my money just for a campaign…

> I am unsure if i have been banned, i cannot connect to xbox live at all on Halo: Reach, and i cant have been banned for doing anything wrong because i havent played for about 3 months because i have been on MW3, well i did manage to play one game online thats it… (Ive also been reset to recruit and a message pops up on screen even when i scroll down a helmet or chest in the armoury, i get this**“Failed to write Gamer Profile setting. One Possible reason is if you removed your Xbox 360 Memory Unit. Changes to your profile setting might not be saved.”**, i get this everytime i scroll from one piece of armour to the next…
>
> If i have been banned will this carry over to Halo 4, if yes im certainly not wasting my money just for a campaign…

You have not been banned, that’s for sure, in all it sounds like your profile is corrupted.

The solution to this is to delete your profile from your xbox, when you do delete it make sure to choose Delete Profile ONLY, and NOT Delete Profile & Items.

Them download your profile from Xbox LIVE again, you will require your Xbox LIVE Account’s e-mail and password.

@The Little Moa, You sir, are a legend you not only fixed my issues with Halo: Reach but also my issues on MW3 and Assassins Creed Revelations!!!

> @The Little Moa, You sir, are a legend you not only fixed my issues with Halo: Reach but also my issues on MW3 and Assassins Creed Revelations!!!

No problem mate :slight_smile:

Just remember if you have been banned, you would be told what kind of ban and if it was Temporary or Permanent.

This may be a stupid question, check that, probably is, but I’ll shoot. Does posting here ever result in a lifting of a ban? Also, I don’t even understand half the stuff people are talking about. Boosting and Aimbot? Whatever those are, is that why some people are so freaking god-like in this game? I’ve beaten all the HALO games on Legendary, no big deal, I know everyone has, and yet I get my chestnuts handed to me on a regular basis. You can see from my record I sure as heck ain’t cheatin, my BPR is pathetic, and yet our console and all 3 accounts are on a credit ban. Since Saturday. That sucks. We bought the Family Pack subscription just for Reach, only to lose our rank and credits that we couldn’t take online (my 12 year old lost a million and half, no joke) and while the fun of the game is not earning credits, it IS nice to see that progression and be able to customize your spartan’s armor.

Are you serious? i don’t understand why some individuals believe they can judge others the way you have me in an open forum. i don’t need to lie about this game and if you noticed in my first post i did say if i found out what i was specifically doing wrong to be banned, i would stop. i had no idea what the heck AFKing was until i came to this forum, so your comment about me being mad, because i got caught is pretty ridiculous.

It’-Yoink!- and run chickin cr_p comments like this against others i can’t stand. You downed me being a man and then say you have serious doubts about whether or not i’m a 51 year old veteran! Do you work for anyone to have the responsability or authority to check my previous ban or did you find that out that from a friend that you have that works for Bungie, 323 Industries or Microsoft?

The other issue of making a comment that i need therapy dealing with my grandson is another little chicken cr_p comment that someone with some serious issues dealing with disrespect and judging others have. My grandson was never or would i ever have him playing with me at 3 in the morning! That’s a punk crack, which is pretty disgusting.

Can i review your games and bans that you have going on back nearly a year? Yes, i was put on a temporary ban a while back, but i didn’t know the specific reason why or how long the temporary ban was for.

Now going back to last September i had a GUEST that never played Halo before that played the game with myself as well as my grandkids and wife, so judge as you will. Do you remember the first time you played Halo, did you get 200 kills?

i asked if an Administrator or Moderator or anyone of official status could tell me how long my temporary ban is for and why. Like my first ban that i believe lasted for 24hrs i didn’t know then what it was for or for how long. i believed at the time it was for using the Target Locator kills in Omni to accumulate kills and then reverting to last save. A friend of mine told me then that that was considered boosting, but at that point i didn’t even know what the terminology, “boosting” was.

As far as my game play i didn’t begin playing Halo Live Matchmaking until after Halo 3 was out for a while and that is the reason why i’m not that good as a Forerunner in Live MultiPlayer Matchmaking. The specific games you reviewed where one game i was at -8 KD spread and the next a plus 23, well my friends that played the match where i was -8 made it to all the power weapons before i did or they got kills much quicker than i did. They were in that game much better than myself on both sides. I DON’T MOD or CHEAT by using AMBOT! i’ve played some BTB and SWAT games against a team stacked with Inheritors and Reclaimers and soon as i was killed that was it for me the rest of the game.

Do you watch these posts to cherry pick out your sucker punches? i come here to deal directly with an Administrator to answer two questions not to tangle with any disrepectful adolescent. This is getting to be a waste of time here in this forum after i have learned the meaning of AFKing…i do know one thing, i will begin playing Halo 4 as soon as it comes out and maybe then we will run against each other in Multiplayer Matchmaking. i will be ready for your cheap shots then…

That there’s a lot of words…

Look, I get it. You were banned and you’re upset, that’s fine and understandable. Bans usually last 24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week, 2 weeks, and I forget what comes after that.

I’m not sure what being a military vet has to do with the status of your ban because I assure you, you aren’t unique in your situation. That said, thank you for your service.

> This may be a stupid question, check that, probably is, but I’ll shoot. Does posting here ever result in a lifting of a ban? Also, I don’t even understand half the stuff people are talking about. Boosting and Aimbot? Whatever those are, is that why some people are so freaking god-like in this game? I’ve beaten all the HALO games on Legendary, no big deal, I know everyone has, and yet I get my chestnuts handed to me on a regular basis. You can see from my record I sure as heck ain’t cheatin, my BPR is pathetic, and yet our console and all 3 accounts are on a credit ban. Since Saturday. That sucks. We bought the Family Pack subscription just for Reach, only to lose our rank and credits that we couldn’t take online (my 12 year old lost a million and half, no joke) and while the fun of the game is not earning credits, it IS nice to see that progression and be able to customize your spartan’s armor.

Your ban is 5% likely to get lifted from posting here, 343 Industries pretty much left this topic for the community to deal with, it is very unlikely they will even check this topic at all while they are busy with Halo 4.

I advise you stick playing Custom Games or Campaign if you want to avoid the mistaken bans, there is not much you can do about it unless you improve at Reach.

i know that an Administrator will probably never address your personal ban here, but why filter us here to talk to others that only speculate? i feel your pain and i allow guests to play as well on my account. This is a game, but we pay a lot of money for these games and for our 360’s and Gold Memeberships. The generic post covers why we have been placed on the ban in generalities using terms such as AFKing that many of us don’t understand. i guess you as well as myself concentrated to much on Campaign to beat it on Legendary than starting off playing multiplayer matchmaking.It’s obvious why we get slaughtered when we play Multiplayer Matchmaking Live and don’t understand many of these Halo Community Terms such as, “boosting.” Maybe you should click on the moderators for this forum and write them a personal message. i noticed the place to click on the Moderators, but now i can’t find it again. i hope they lift your ban soon.

> i know that an Administrator will probably never address your personal ban here, but why filter us here to talk to others that only speculate? i feel your pain and i allow guests to play as well on my account. This is a game, but we pay a lot of money for these games and for our 360’s and Gold Memeberships. The generic post covers why we have been placed on the ban in generalities using terms such as AFKing that many of us don’t understand. i guess you as well as myself concentrated to much on Campaign to beat it on Legendary than starting off playing multiplayer matchmaking.It’s obvious why we get slaughtered when we play Multiplayer Matchmaking Live and don’t understand many of these Halo Community Terms such as, “boosting.” Maybe you should click on the moderators for this forum and write them a personal message. i noticed the place to click on the Moderators, but now i can’t find it again. i hope they lift your ban soon.

They are not filtering anybody, it is practically said on the OP that this is a community run topic and probably only ever will be, as I have said, the solution to stop this is to stay in Firefight, Campaign & Custom Games, this way you will avoid bans, the system is flawed but I’m not sure 343 have it as a top priority.

Hello, me (J9xInca), my friend (Opt1mus88), and his wife (Sweetbottoms17), were playing some matchmaking games and it was his wife’s first time playing. Then we got a message saying that the console and the accounts were temp banned from earning credits. Not sure why, i googled it and it said possibly because she got little amount of kills or none at all, but not sure if thats why or what. Someone please help, it would greatly be appreciated. Thanks! :slight_smile:

^^ Also, wanted to put out that we never quit any games, we finish every game through. So we dont lag out of game, or quit nearly ever. All we want to do is play some reach and get our ranks up, what did we do so wrong, why is it such a problem to earn credits? This is the second time we have been banned in two days? Who can i talk to about making sure this doesnt happen again?