- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Weekly Update
5. Quitting: Only in moderation
There are plenty of totally valid reasons to quit. For example, if you're on fire. Or, if your mother is on fire. Or, even if your dog is setting your mother on fire. However, these things come with statutes of limitations. For quitting, if you do it so often that we recognize it as bad behavior, you're risking the wrath of the Banhammer.
I said it last week and I'll say it again - this is completely ridiculous. You are really trying to dictate behavior to the point that you will ban people for quitting too much? How exactly do you know when it is "valid" to quit and it isn't? How do you know what real life circumstances surround my needing to quit? Are you going to ban people that play Halo 3 on military bases because they have to quit out of a game to do something important? Are you going to ban people that have biological problems and have to run to the bathroom frequently? Are you going to ask me what real life circumstances surrounded me needing to quit before you ban me, or are you just going to ban me without warning, without bothering to check if there could have been some other problem?
I can already predict the answer to this post -
"No, we ban for behavior. Our mystical banhammer is able to use it's mighty powers of clairvoyance to determine exactly what you are doing when you quit out of Halo 3. You have been warned."
And I can already predict the response of the community to this change -
People will simply go away from their controller instead of quitting, leaving their xbox in the game while they go do whatever they were going to do anyway.
Great, so now instead of getting a quitter in Team Slayer, I'm going to get some jackass who stands still the whole game getting killed by the enemy team and making it even harder for our team to win than it would have been if he had just quit.
Personally, I will continue quitting whenever the hell I feel like it. If you want to ban me for it, go right ahead. I'd rather not play this game than have some high and mighty game developers try to tell me that I HAVE to play it and that I HAVE to finish games, even if they are terrible garbage like splockets or half my team quits.
Fallout 3 will be out soon anyway.