- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Nice to know that Bungie for some reason thinks betraying and quiting a game are forms of cheating. I mean think about it. When you first started to play Halo 2 on X Box Live weren't you pissed that you couldn't choose which map you wanted to play on, who you wanted to play with, and be able to know that your team knows what they are doing before you risked having your rank go up or down. I do not know of any other X Box Live game that does not allow you to choose which map to play on and who the people you are playing with are. If there are any other games out there that automaticly choose for you which map and people you play with are then they are just the very few games that actually do do that. Also, I often invite my friend over to play Halo 2 on my X Box Live and we are constantly pissed off at our team because we were grouped with a bunch of idiots that don't even understand that you DON'T CHARGE INTO THE ENEMIES BASE WITH YOUR TEAMS SNIPER RIFLE (this example mainly applies to Blood Gultch map). Because of this we usually either quit the match we are in or start betraying the dumb ones doing the things that are making our team lose. Now I'm sure someone is gonna reply and say "Hey! I bet you and your friend just suck at Halo 2 and can't even get a killing spree, let alone score yourself!" Well I should tell you that my friend has on serval occassions been the only one to go over to the enemys base, take the flag, go back to our base BY HIMSELF and score 3 times! And I everytime we play I am constatly sent 2 or 3 clan invites cause he or I were the only ones doing what it took to win. Oh and about the betrayal thing I was talking about. Ok point one, Betraying someone is part of the game. Bungie added it to the game for a fact of realism (I assume). If a person betrays someone one to many times the person that is betrayed is allowed to boot them. Seems fair to me. However, when you classify someone as cheating because they are doing something that is perfectly legal in the game and was intentionally put into the game then you are breaking the user contract. The user contract (as far as I know) states that betraying someone is a part of the game. If you deside to betray someone for any reason, you have the right to do so. If Bungie didn't want people betraying people then they would have made it so that you don't die from things that other team mates did. This however is not the case. Bungie you put betrayals in this game, we bought it, we can do what we want to each other. If someone on the team doesn't like it then they can boot us after we kill them. And most of the betrayals are from people that don't get along with other people on their team cause they were put into a randomly made game that no one had any say in if they wanted to play it or not. You could do the logical thing and let us choose our matchs but then again logic never was your strong point was it?