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Subject: The only "omg I gut EXP banned for NO RAISON" thread

Posted by: Shishka
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i got an exp ban and to my knowledge i havnt done anything to deserve it . i do play with guest a lot and they always get much lower scores than me and i almost always beat them. but this isnt boosting as the guests r trying. why have i been banned?


First off, congratulations on being the first person to post in this thread that isn't immediately eligible for a two week blacklisting from the forums.

Second:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754443 480&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754445 826&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754446 706&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754449 508&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754450 933&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754453 777&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754455 139&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754457 811&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754461 192&player=dragonbile
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=754464 369&player=dragonbile

Your ban is, without a doubt, completely justified.
Thats the stupidest excuse for banning someone i have ever seen. Just because he was playing with alot of guests and YOUR matchmaking system didnt always find them other people to play with them??? Even for you shishka, this is low.


This is back on page like 7 or something.

You really think that his guests are that bad for all 3 of them get 100-0'd in an oddball game? wow sad...

also....

ok, i really hope you bungie guys actualy view this thread, because i have a question for you. You see, for some reason i cant go up in experiance (im guessing that this is an exp ban) but i never got a message or anything saying that i was exp banned, it was just one day i get on and i realise im not going up in experiance. plus, i didn't boost or anything.

Xbox Live and it's updating is messing up EXP with Halo. You are not banned, there is just a glich.

AH and sry for double post, thought someone else replied

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  • 10.01.2008 7:31 PM PDT

-delete please-

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  • 10.01.2008 7:32 PM PDT

Are you more than you?

I had believed i got banned due to my friends blowing so much at halo (I swear those are real zero they just really suck I'm sorry thats why i introduced them in an unranked match). I found out though that this is not the case when I went into my games list i saw games like this (http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=76543 6817&player=BigMo%201O957) in this game (not only do we do horrible) my guest recieves a score of zero yet still gets first place. I swear im not a hacker, I also swear I did not do this. How does this happen could it be because I downloaded modded maps from others file shares. please help I did not cheat and never have and i definately wouldnt cheat for a guest that blows at halo and that i will ensure never plays with me again.

thank you

  • 10.01.2008 8:08 PM PDT

"I'll try," she said as he walked away.
"Try not to lose you."
Two vibrant hearts could change.
Nothing tears the being more than deception,
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"I'll be here waiting" tested and secure.

Is exp boosting cheating cause I remember reading something on the banhammer saying that exp boosting doesnt matter.

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  • 10.01.2008 8:20 PM PDT
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Hi, I just signed onto Xbox live, then went to Halo 3 matchmaking where I was told that my Xbox console has been banned form Halo 3 matchmaking for a week. I was wondering if I could get some more information on this?

I haven't played a Halo 3 Matchmaking game since September 20th, when I played 3 Team Objective games. Before that I played on September 1st, when I played a single Team Slayer game. Can someone who knows something please help me and tell me exactly why I was banned?

  • 10.01.2008 8:54 PM PDT
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I did not get a message saying that I was banned but I don't get exp. Is it because of major lags that I have had for the last three days it has taken me out of games by saying everyone has quit.

  • 10.01.2008 9:21 PM PDT
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Honeslty, people. A game where u have 25 kills and no one else has any? That's just too obvious.

  • 10.01.2008 9:47 PM PDT

Well that was useful, im not being sarcastic, i havent been able to get any xp and ive been coming third to first or i have been mvp of the winning team. i dont know whats wrong. Can somebody plz help me?
PurplePeacock

  • 10.01.2008 9:53 PM PDT

In response to Bungie saying EXP boosting wasn't a concern because it doesn't affect others matchmaking experience, I remember that as well. I tried finding it in a weekly update, but was unsuccessful.

I'm just interested to know why there hasn't been much of a Bungie response to a Bungie-created thread. Especially due to the concerns about the harshness of this banhammer garbage from so many devout fans.

Is Bungie about community?

I guess not enough to provide common decency to the people who have been helping to feed their families for the last 7 years. This is a game, Shishka. A game franchise that people like me have been putting up with all manner of crap (screaming racist slurs, modders, terrible music in headsets, betrayals, etc.) to play for quite a while. Suddenly getting achievements which you boast will warrant "gold at the end of the Vidmaster rainbow" is bannable? Do you want people to earn achievements? Getting them together is bannable (what about Annual)? I know of no other game studio to punish its players for trying to complete its game to the fullest level. I am indescribably bitter, if it isn't completely obvious.

You have failed a long-time, die-hard, loving fan.
Please respond.

P.S. This is a discussion, right? All of you who keep posting about not gaining EXP, read THE DISCUSSION, for crying out loud. How did you miss the "EXP and TrueSkill issues in Matchmaking" post and wind up here anyway?

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  • 10.01.2008 9:55 PM PDT
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>>All-Hail-those-who-fall-between-lines-of-Good-and-Evi l<<

>>As I walk though the valley of the shadow of Death i shall Fear no Evil, for Evil shall Fear me!!!!<<

I got EXP banned for having guest and friends in FFA DLC. I was trying to help them get achievements. So is that cheating or something? I will admit I have EXP boosted a lot in the past and Shishka bashed on me for it a whole lot lol. I havent been doing it since so wtf. Also I was checking halocharts.com the other day to see what I ranked in there and I was #54 and now I 12000 something so whats up with that?

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  • 10.01.2008 10:02 PM PDT

I had no idea halocharts.com existed! Thank you!!! It's awesome.

  • 10.01.2008 10:20 PM PDT
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i think im being exp banned
i wasnt notified and im not recieving exp
i dont know though
gamertags are "Eulogistic" and "Fear Violent"
i plead innocent if i am, would you be able to check up on it
thanks for your time
-Brodie


[Edited on 10.01.2008 10:36 PM PDT]

  • 10.01.2008 10:32 PM PDT

Posted by: Murasame
Posted by: Murasame
I'm just wondering why they ban people for getting achievements in social playlists with their friends? Isn't the point of social playlists to play with one's friends? Did they not expect people to try to get achievements with their friends? It seems to me that they should have had some foresight when they made the achievements unlockable in social playlists. If they really wanted people to do it on their own, then they should have made them only available in ranked free for all like the original ones. Also, they should be focusing on people who actually are ruining the online experience for others rather than the people playing social games for achievements with their friends.

I did exactly what the above says. I went into DLC FFA with my friends so that we could get achievements. The next day, I was banned for experience boosting. We played a total of 13 games, of which I don't remember if I got exp from all of them. I really didn't care if I got exp or not b/c we were only going for achievements and I don't really need exp, just higher true skill. What we were doing was not experience boosting, but helping each other get achievements because we assumed that we were allowed to do that since they could be gotten in social playlists as well as ranked. In my opinion, I don't think that I deserve a two week ban.

So my question to Shiska is this:
Does what I did with my friends warrant a 2 week ban, and if so, why are the achievements available in social in the first place?

I would greatly appreciate an answer, but I know you guys are busy with everything that is going on with XBL and maps and whatnot. I am not expecting the ban to be removed, though it would be nice if it was. I'm really just looking for an answer to my above question so I know more about why I was banned.

Still hoping for an answer

  • 10.01.2008 10:37 PM PDT

day 3 no exp no ranks :-(

  • 10.01.2008 11:07 PM PDT

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I sent a PM to Shiska already. I think mines just a case of wrong place wrong time. Only have a few games that look like i was boosting. Its up to shishka though. Ban or not banned, thank you.

  • 10.01.2008 11:10 PM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

If you did not recieve the message about being banned you arnt, the exp system is down, so nobdoy is earning exp. :)

  • 10.02.2008 3:08 AM PDT
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ok well I (Mr RaNd0m hEr0) got banned and its my first time being banned i got banned from gaining EXP because me and a friend on xbox live (hes been banned too his account name is cloggedkiller) brung not moving guests so we can get more people too vito levels so we can get the oddball achevement because its seriously every 1 outta 100 games and you HAVE too get it on a legendary map witch makes it WAY harder.

in my opinion i dont think we should be banned from gaining exp because we werent gaining exp at all we were acually deranking and bungie makes it SOOOOO hard too get oddball on a legendary map that its retarded. ive talked too some kids in DLC FFA and (some of them said) they were trying too find oddball on a legendary map for 4 days straight.

clogged and I are wondering if are accounts have been banned for ever or if its just going too be two weeks?

thank you.

  • 10.02.2008 3:45 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

The ban is two weeks, what i dont understand is that achievements are suppost to be a challenge, thats why its 'SOOOO hard too get' as you put it.

  • 10.02.2008 3:57 AM PDT
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he said in the beginning of the topic that nobody has been unbanned for exp i just dont see how thats cheating. doesnt make sense yeah there suppose too be a challenge but still the oddball one is crazy. they really expect us too play tons and tons of games in ONE game type too get ONE achevement?

  • 10.02.2008 4:39 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: Mr RaNd0m hEr0
he said in the beginning of the topic that nobody has been unbanned for exp i just dont see how thats cheating. doesnt make sense yeah there suppose too be a challenge but still the oddball one is crazy. they really expect us too play tons and tons of games in ONE game type too get ONE achevement?


Yes, thats the idea of the 'challenge'.

  • 10.02.2008 4:44 AM PDT

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  • 10.02.2008 5:19 AM PDT
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ok but are you postive that i will be unbanned in 2 weeks? cuz if your not sure then im just gunna make a new account cuz im over all the retardedness of this game.

  • 10.02.2008 5:36 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: Mr RaNd0m hEr0
ok but are you postive that i will be unbanned in 2 weeks? cuz if your not sure then im just gunna make a new account cuz im over all the retardedness of this game.


Yes you will probably be unbanned after 2 weeks, everyone will. But remember, this is your warning banning, the next one wont be so merciful.

  • 10.02.2008 5:38 AM PDT
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are you from bungie or are you just a halo player answering questions for them?

but ok it wont happen again. the only reason i did it in the first place is because i didnt know i could get in trouble for it i thought it was just a easyer way too get it then too play 47374793 games befor i got that achevement.

btw if you are from bungie is there a relese date on when the mythic maps are comming out?

  • 10.02.2008 5:55 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: Mr RaNd0m hEr0
are you from bungie or are you just a halo player answering questions for them?

but ok it wont happen again. the only reason i did it in the first place is because i didnt know i could get in trouble for it i thought it was just a easyer way too get it then too play 47374793 games befor i got that achevement.

btw if you are from bungie is there a relese date on when the mythic maps are comming out?


Im just a random person answering for them while they manage other problems, and towards your other question i have noooo idea.

I take a crack that the mythic map pack would be released within the next 100 years.

  • 10.02.2008 6:04 AM PDT