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Subject: Unfair Banning Problem
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I apologise for any mistakes as this the first time i have used a forum.

as i am new i dont fully understand how to communicate with bungie directly but we RECON KILLCRAZY and RECON DESPERADO have recently experienced a problem with halo 3 matchmaking banning system.

we have just returned to halo 3 after a period of playing on reach these tags are new to halo 3, we have played roughly 70 games of team slayer over the last week or so. On the 31st of july we tryed to play team doubles however as our game history would show we matched with nothing but people quitting out after an hour or so we finally managed to get 4 real games. during the fourth a message appeared on desperado screen saying he was banned from matchaking for one week then another message appeared saying his xbox was banned as well. 30 minutes later i also got the same messages. there was three teams of people quitting out that we would match against there gamertags are:

Timmy Is A Boss
He Is DeRanKinG

BrProPerfection
Camo mwmwmwmwmw

name a friend
Whoooo are you

they were unrelated to us and by all accounts in no way benifiting us checking there games show that they quit out when against us or against anyone else.

we have a great love for halo and understand the valid reasons for the autoban system however with declining numbers on the game the chance to match up against the same people increase and so the chance for mistakes such as this increases.

we would appreciate you considering unbanning us but atleast address this issue as we would not want this to happen again as i belive the ban escelates with each occurence.

[Edited on 07.31.2011 1:40 PM PDT]

  • 07.31.2011 1:36 PM PDT

Just to clarify we started this thread to make Bungie aware of a possible problem that may affect a significant portion of the Halo 3 community, please post any similar experiences.

  • 07.31.2011 1:50 PM PDT

I run Skirmish!!!

you cheated and are crying about it, stop.. if you weren't host booting, which i am doubtful of, You know those teams were de-ranking so instead of boosting off of them by matching up with them multiple games, use common sense and wait for them to get into a game then search dubs.

you will not get unbanned too, your game history has cheater written all over it

[Edited on 07.31.2011 3:46 PM PDT]

  • 07.31.2011 3:45 PM PDT

Wow, Halo 3 forums are full of idiots. Halo 3 is full of derankers and quitters nowadays and you know it. So why the hate?

Bungie doesn't care about this game anymore. You won't get unbanned no matter how innocent you are. Derankers and cheaters have ruined Halo.

  • 07.31.2011 4:25 PM PDT

I thought your story was a bit unlikely but i checked your game history and you do appear to be right about running into derankers, as long as those guys arnt on your friend list or playing off your ip adress i cant see how you should be banned. However dont expect bungie to do anything about it as their customer care sucks.

  • 07.31.2011 4:50 PM PDT
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they were obviously deleveling just look at there games when we are not involved. they have pages and pages of quit outs.

as for waiting there was three different teams and as we got one that quit out we would wait until they got a match then we would try to match somone else who would also do it.

"cheater written all over it" i dont understand other than what i am referencing how my game history could look anything other than legitimate.


[Edited on 07.31.2011 4:58 PM PDT]

  • 07.31.2011 4:53 PM PDT
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I thought your story was a bit unlikely but i checked your game history and you do appear to be right about running into derankers, as long as those guys arnt on your friend list or playing off your ip adress i cant see how you should be banned. However dont expect bungie to do anything about it as their customer care sucks.

thank you for checking the games and i know bungie probably wont even read this but i just thought i would bring it up and see what is said

  • 07.31.2011 4:57 PM PDT

those guys who were dnf have deranker written all over their profiles, i was playing low level dubs today and i kept matching the same two teams of derankers. If bungie really cared about this kind of behaviour they would have done something about it, since they havent it just shows that they are either incompetant or cant be arsed and as i previously stated, bungies customer care sucks.

  • 07.31.2011 4:58 PM PDT


Posted by: II gaped II
you cheated and are crying about it, stop.. if you weren't host booting, which i am doubtful of, You know those teams were de-ranking so instead of boosting off of them by matching up with them multiple games, use common sense and wait for them to get into a game then search dubs.

you will not get unbanned too, your game history has cheater written all over it


I hope you get hit by a bus.

  • 07.31.2011 6:54 PM PDT