And thank God Bungie is no longer making the Halo franchise. They got lucky with Halo 1, and have had declining returns ever since. Their one shot in the dark got them all arrogant and d-bag-ish. They think that they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. They're not. They are a bunch of arrogant d-bags who deserve to go bankrupt. They don't know the meaning of the word "customer service". But I digress.
The quit ban is a pathetically moronic idea for several reasons:
1) it doesn't do anything to curb quitting. In fact, it actually incentivizes quitting. Quitting is a far greater problem in Reach than it ever was in Halo 3.
2) all it accomplishes is to put Halo in 3rd (probably lower now) place behind Call of Duty (TWICE!). Banning people from playing solely for leaving games voluntarily or otherwise just alienates the consumer, and makes them want to go play games that dont ban them for leaving games. Hence the reason COD is pathetically beating Reach TWICE.
3) Bungie had to be d-bags and have the "you have quit too many games" message appear MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE MIDDLE OF GAMEPLAY. This has the happy side effect of potentially getting you killed or stealing a kill from you. There is no way that this d-bag "warning" is anything other than Bungie being complete and utter a-holes. If you want to warn people, PUT UP A SINGLE MESSAGE BETWEEN GAMES
4) The quit ban does not differentiate between quitting, getting disconnected, or getting booted by a d-bag teammate who betrays himself on your attack on an enemy. More than a few times, I have been subject to the quit ban soley because of idiotic teammates in Big Team Slayer. If youre going to have an assine qu it ban, make sure it bans you for actually quitting
5) if youre going to have a quit ban, dont have it hang over somebody's head for a week or more. That just discourages people from playing halo. Seriously, Bungie, the more one analyzes the quit ban and your other moronic decisions, the more one thinks that Halo 1 was probably far more a stroke of luck than a stroke of genius. Your multiplayer is still by far the best out there. If it werent for your moronic decisions, you'd be killing Call of Laggy.
You guys are probably too gutless to actually debate anyone, so you hide behind your pathetic shield of arrogance. Nobody is fooled. In reality you are just petty bullies with no self confidence who had one lucky shot in the dark with Halo 1, and have been on the decline ever since.
And please, don't nickel and dime people by releasing an incomplete game and then charging them 20 bucks to complete it. Thats just pathetic money grabbing.
THIS IS YOUR CUE TO PATHETICALLY TRY TO DEFEND BUNGIE, ALL YOU BOARD SYCOPHANTS
[Edited on 11.11.2011 10:19 AM PST]