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Subject: Doubles Arena: Host Ban or something else?

Like many others, I'm unable to play Doubles with friends (large number of friends, actually..4 different people, all of which are the only ones i play doubles with) because it constantly restarts search after finding someone.

From what I've been reading, this is because of a host ban and myself and my teammates are all host banned and blah blah blah.

This doesn't make sense. So now I can't play Doubles pretty much, is what I'm being told? And on what grounds? My connection is fine and there's never been any issues with cheating or anything else. I'm questioning the logic behind bungies way of finding out wether or not someone should be host banned or not.

On top of that, I've noticed a serious decrease in arena players. For example, right now.. there are only 146 current players in 4v4 and 172 in 2v2.

Looks like bungies terrible system just banned EVERYONE, amirite?..

  • 09.21.2010 1:49 PM PDT

I changed usernames to match my gamertag. My original account, wambo114, was created when I got xbox live. I'm a 2007 kid really!

wambo114: Member Since: 11.09.2007

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arena is in Reach, the forum for which is a lot easier to get to than this one; the halo 3 forum.


Posted by: im Cold Blooded

Looks like bungies terrible system just banned EVERYONE, amirite?..



i dont think so, but having never played reach i dont know.

if you dont like the game, you shouldnt play. video games are for fun! also, it sounds like your connection is the problem, not the system.

  • 09.21.2010 1:54 PM PDT

Jesus, My bad man didn't even realize what forums i was on. I had just read a complaint and hit new topic... ugh. Sorry about that, will create.

and also, i dont understand. I've never timed out, lagged, hiccuped, nothing. 50megs up 20 down, my connection should be fine. This is driving me nuts.. mainly because i can't partner with either of my buddies and play.

On a side note, i strongly recommend you get around to playing reach. Good fun

[Edited on 09.21.2010 2:00 PM PDT]

  • 09.21.2010 1:58 PM PDT

I changed usernames to match my gamertag. My original account, wambo114, was created when I got xbox live. I'm a 2007 kid really!

wambo114: Member Since: 11.09.2007

youtube.com/user/wambo114

its all good! loads of people have been doing it :)


Posted by: im Cold Blooded
50megs up 20 down,

On a side note, i strongly recommend you get around to playing reach. Good fun


i will be getting reach! just when i get some money. also, nice connection! im 1.2 mbps down and 0.3 up :/

  • 09.21.2010 2:04 PM PDT

sorry 50down 20up, and yeah it's worked wonders for me up until recently haha. I'm going to assume my router is bad and Bungies system is nitpicky? Dunno.

Reach will be the best money you've spent in a long time though, positive of that. That is until you run into a situation like the 1 I'm in now lol.

  • 09.21.2010 2:11 PM PDT

I changed usernames to match my gamertag. My original account, wambo114, was created when I got xbox live. I'm a 2007 kid really!

wambo114: Member Since: 11.09.2007

youtube.com/user/wambo114

yeah, its probably something up with your router. although if you are from the UK apparently there has been alot of problems recently. for me my connection has been dropped a lot more often than usual.

  • 09.21.2010 2:15 PM PDT

~Bradley~

Stop posting reach stuff in halo 3 forum!!

  • 09.21.2010 3:40 PM PDT
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No, you are host banned. It happened to me as well. Theres a thread going on about in Optimatch but I've yet to receive an answer from Bungie. Same goes for your friend. Apparently because you have such a low amount of games and people are quitting on your host, it makes the system think that its happening at a high volume of games. For example I've had three games where people just quit out on me and a friend in Arena doubles and at point I may have had 75 games played and apparently that percentage was high enough to warrant a host ban

  • 09.21.2010 4:02 PM PDT