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Subject: Banned from playing with my partner in doubles?

d taylor

Ok before i get into what is going on, i would like to point out that:

Me and my partners NAT settings are open
we have both restarted our routers mulitple times
we have not cheated or abused the system
we have tried different internet connections
we have tried different xbox's

me and my friend like to play allot of doubles, but in the last couple of week (before christmas) when we search for a game, it locks in a game with two other people and then restarts the search. What is going on? have we been banned from playing with eachother? we can both play with different people, but no eachother???

  • 01.17.2011 5:27 PM PDT

Off of the top of my head, there is just one reason this could happen: Host Banned.

In Matchmaking, each team in a game has to have at least one person capable of being host, else you won't be able to get a match. The most likely scenario is that both you and your friend are host banned, thus you are unable to play Team Doubles. This happens when your host causes less than pleasant experiences for the other people in the game, even if you two aren't the ones seeing all the lag or being out of net sync.

You should have no trouble playing any other playlist that has more than just you two.

  • 01.17.2011 5:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior
Off of the top of my head, there is just one reason this could happen: Host Banned.

In Matchmaking, each team in a game has to have at least one person capable of being host, else you won't be able to get a match. The most likely scenario is that both you and your friend are host banned, thus you are unable to play Team Doubles. This happens when your host causes less than pleasant experiences for the other people in the game, even if you two aren't the ones seeing all the lag or being out of net sync.

You should have no trouble playing any other playlist that has more than just you two.


This would only make sense if they were on the same xbox, otherwise the other team could easily just pull host on them.

  • 01.17.2011 6:36 PM PDT

Posted by: AbeLincoln15
This would only make sense if they were on the same xbox, otherwise the other team could easily just pull host on them.
Oh no it has nothing to do with being on the same Xbox. It's just a matter of the team. I don't pretend to know why, but Bungie has indeed made it so every team has to have at least one person who can pull host. If neither person can, they won't find a match.

  • 01.17.2011 6:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: burritosenior
Off of the top of my head, there is just one reason this could happen: Host Banned.

In Matchmaking, each team in a game has to have at least one person capable of being host, else you won't be able to get a match. The most likely scenario is that both you and your friend are host banned, thus you are unable to play Team Doubles. This happens when your host causes less than pleasant experiences for the other people in the game, even if you two aren't the ones seeing all the lag or being out of net sync.

You should have no trouble playing any other playlist that has more than just you two.


This would only make sense if they were on the same xbox, otherwise the other team could easily just pull host on them.

No he's right. It's like trying to play Head To Head if you're hostbanned.

  • 01.17.2011 11:38 PM PDT

Posted by: damo1992
we have not cheated or abused the system


Right...

  • 01.18.2011 1:09 AM PDT
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lol some1 is butthurt cause they cant play on there terribad account with there terribad friend, i have an idea, play a game called real life, its really fun...

  • 01.18.2011 2:27 AM PDT

I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. ~ Mark Twain

They don't match you if they don't have a potential host.

I'm hostbanned, a doubles partner of mine is hostbanned, it takes longer when we search together, but we always get games.

  • 01.18.2011 4:53 AM PDT