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Inside the Mind of Halotitan Help me get expand my mind.

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Posted by: nomaramirez5 24
Bungie, you guys suck, i havent cheated and im still banned. You guys are banning random people just to show the halo 2 world that you can ban people. Screw you guys, I'm getting everyone i possibly can to lose all your customers. This is why halo 2 sucks. I wanna know why i was banned.


Hmmmm maybe you were banned because you were modding. I looked at your games and every game that was on warlock you always won by a huge margin and you would have like 30 kills and 0 deaths. I think that is probally the reason you were banned.


Actually you lie...i checked them myself and he showed no signs of being a hacker...but i think he's lying too because he was playing today on xbox live.

  • 07.08.2005 6:15 PM PDT
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Yeah, you're right, Microsoft reserve the right to refuse sale of Xbox Live gamertags to anyone.[/quote]

Listen Switch 9... did i say anyone?... no i said ban the creditcard used to purchase a gammertag that has been confirmed as cheating.

I really dont care if a sibling of a modder is left out in the cold... but i really fail to see how that comes close to refusing the sale of gammertags to anyone.

(lol sorry Switch 9 if this wassnt what you ment.. too used to sarcasm it seems... apologies)

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  • 07.08.2005 6:16 PM PDT
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Skin Cancer is the #1 killer of Halo players worldwide.

so the autoupdate isn't coming out Monday?!?!?!? WTF!!! Bungie is never gonna do this mass-banning crap they keep talking about... DAAAAH! pisses me off royally.

  • 07.08.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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look back further titan
hes a cheater... his warlock kills are coming from the top of the level.

*edit*
here is the gamelink
http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo2WebMaps/richgame.aspx?g=2276 61349

[Edited on 7/8/2005]

  • 07.08.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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Does anyone know of this aforementioned Soffish.com? And would they perhaps like to be part of an interview?

  • 07.08.2005 6:21 PM PDT
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I now know! But still, the dirty images directory remains...

  • 07.08.2005 6:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: nomaramirez5 24
Bungie, you guys suck, i havent cheated and im still banned. You guys are banning random people just to show the halo 2 world that you can ban people. Screw you guys, I'm getting everyone i possibly can to lose all your customers. This is why halo 2 sucks. I wanna know why i was banned.


You could have been banned for one of the following:

1. Playing with hacked content (not just maps, but profiles and gametypes too).
2. Quality of Service/Standby ban (starting a game with good bandwith and then being the cause of massive bandwidth reduction/packet loss, multiple times) - note this can only get you a temp ban, and also note that this could just mean that you have a really crappy connection and your box seems to lie about it a lot.
3. Boosting (setting up matchmaking to "trade" wins to artificially increase your rank)
4. Playing with people who use hacked content. Don't party with people who cheat. If you're benefiting from them cheating, you're just as bad, and will get banned.

These are, of course, only for Halo 2 matchmaking bans. If you cannot log into Live, well, it could be for lots of reasons. We don't do those bans.

  • 07.08.2005 6:25 PM PDT
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Frankey i sent you some msg so reade them please and i would like it if u replyed with a yes to all of those msgs

  • 07.08.2005 6:26 PM PDT
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I did some quick math.

Bungie released Halo 2 roughly 240 days ago. Within those 240 days, Bungie claims to have banned 3,200 people. So that's a little over 13 people banned per day. Assuming they haven't been banning people since the beginning, it's still a relatively low number per day. It just seems to me like they might be able to step it up a notch, without putting in any overtime. I know they work hard and they're excellent at their work, but come on. Obviously some days are better than others in terms of banning... I'm not saying they stop every day after they've banned 13 people. But come on! Of course I would rather have Bungie working on Halo 3... but I consider the cheating problem as an epidemic, the longer you let it fester, the more rampant and mainstream it becomes.

It also doesn't make much sense that Bungie would openly publish an article on their website with a direct link to halo mods -- even if the files have been temporarily removed. That's just weak sauce. And from a business standpoint, it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

  • 07.08.2005 6:33 PM PDT
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Bungie, you guys suck, i havent cheated and im still banned. You guys are banning random people just to show the halo 2 world that you can ban people. Screw you guys, I'm getting everyone i possibly can to lose all your customers. This is why halo 2 sucks. I wanna know why i was banned.

sucks to be you. and thank god bungie is going to fix the relic glitch with the teleporter. idk custom games but when these maps go to matchmaking that is a different story. I have played with ppl who have used hacked content for like 7 months and have not been banned so you can't say that mr. bungie admin

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  • 07.08.2005 6:33 PM PDT
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No-one's answering my question!

  • 07.08.2005 6:42 PM PDT

Inside the Mind of Halotitan Help me get expand my mind.

Posted by: deadpanda
look back further titan
hes a cheater... his warlock kills are coming from the top of the level.

*edit*
here is the gamelink
http://www.bungie.net/stats/Halo2WebMaps/richgame.aspx?g=2276 61349



YOUR ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! I checked further back and he has some pretty insane games...30 to 1...he had ALL the kills...yeah right....your teammate died once...that was it...and most of the games that show up as N/A are on warlock (someone quiting because he's a hacker) check out all his warlock matches....even CTF and Crazy KIng are questionable... Sorry i doubted your comment deadpanda.

  • 07.08.2005 6:42 PM PDT
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wassnt me .. i was just stickin up for xCubanCigarx 's search
after that i did my own.

no worries on my end

  • 07.08.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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where to u post/send stuff for the whats weekly update?

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Nice update bungie.I hope you guys can really get rid of the cheating.Down with all the -blam!- cheaters.

  • 07.08.2005 7:11 PM PDT
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wow...that kid must have lost a couple screws up there...anyway... Bungie...this is a question. Like that dude said bungie has been released 240 days ago...or whatever but, how long did it take you to make this game. Halo didn't take long. There was a 2 year spread between Halo and Halo 2. You guys should have noticed people modding on Halo PC. You should have noticed that more clearly and used it as an example for Halo 2. Maybe on the next Halo you should take this into consideration so there is no more cheating. Honestly guys where were your minds at that time.

  • 07.08.2005 7:12 PM PDT
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Yes! First Page!

  • 07.08.2005 7:16 PM PDT
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hey frankie, i am not a modder of any kinda, in that case, i dont see what people get out of cheating...its just time wasting...but i was wondering.me n sum of my friends would love to make a red vs blue show kind of gametype.do you have any idea what i need to make this possible?I have heard that the guys of RVB have been using "Capture Cards" but i am not so sure these are realities.I just want my mind set on this so if i can make a red vs blue kind of show, i can find out how much $ i need for the equipment....Thanks bungie!!!

oh yeah, when exactly is the auto update being released?

  • 07.08.2005 7:21 PM PDT
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Lets. All. Talk. Like. Frankie.

  • 07.08.2005 7:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: nomaramirez5 24
Posted by: UnholyComing4u
Posted by: nomaramirez5 24
Bungie, you guys suck, i havent cheated and im still banned. You guys are banning random people just to show the halo 2 world that you can ban people. Screw you guys, I'm getting everyone i possibly can to lose all your customers. This is why halo 2 sucks. I wanna know why i was banned.

what an idiot, you dont' get banned for "no reason", there is always a reason behind it even if you don't realize it


Well i dont know why i was banned and i wanna no so shut up


You probably got banned for either playing with cheaters a lot, or having a bad connection like I think SketchFactor addressed in the last Weekly What's Update

  • 07.08.2005 7:30 PM PDT
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Or hes somthing i dont think anybody said u may had been a assclown to alot of people and im guessing if you spam the fourms ur prolly worse online when u can scream into the mic or your a racist pig-whore!

  • 07.08.2005 7:36 PM PDT
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why do people comlain about bungie any way.. like ( you dont do any thing boooooo hoooo)
people should aprishi ate bungie they made the best game in the world . they acually care and fix things. so just play the game and be thankfull. OR JUST DONT PLAY WE WONT MISS THE COMPLAINTS!!!

  • 07.08.2005 7:42 PM PDT
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ohh and the maps are great

  • 07.08.2005 7:43 PM PDT
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hey bungie, i was just wondering, when the update comes out, will you be resetting the levels because im a level 28 and have worked hard to get it through all the hackers and mods. or are you just going to ban all the cheaters....PLEASE answer! :)

  • 07.08.2005 7:48 PM PDT
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this is ownage


An unnamed hacker asks,

Why do you guys even pretend you can do anything to stop us playing hacked maps? I do it every day and nothing has happened to me, so you guys are not only noobz, you're liars. You can't stop us.



I looked up this guy's Gamertag, and guess what? He was banned about two hours after sending this message. Irony and coincidence in full effect. We have banned literally thousands of players and we are banning more every day. So don't come crying to us when you get banned. We warned you like, a thousand times.

nice ownage frankie

  • 07.08.2005 7:56 PM PDT