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Subject: Surprise! Credit Ban :P (sorry guys I've been living under a r...

So I just got home from school for winter break and while I wait for Christmas (and Skyrim) I thought I'd hop on Halo Reach and play some firefight. It happened to be Firefight Thursday (w00t) and there were challenges requiring a bunch of kills on specific maps (Glacier and Courtyard yesterday).

When I went into Firefight Matchmaking I noticed the playlists had been shuffled since the last time I played (June/July-ish?)

"Firefight Doubles" I thought, "how cool! I wonder if I can sign in with a guest..."

As I'm sure you all know, it is possible.

So I logged in a guest, played a bunch of games by myself and got the challenges done.

I'm sure you can see where this is going (and if not the subject line gives it away) Credit Ban!

I didn't get wind of all this Credit Ban nonsense while at school, so it caught me off guard. I've read through some of the forums and I understand that my guest was technically "AFK" but I wasn't... I was there playing the whole time haha.

The justifications I've seen for the Credit Bans have to do with decreasing the enjoyment for other players when their teammate is AFK... but whose enjoyment was I ruining? I understand that I removed the competition for kills but I would argue I increased the difficulty by playing solo, and all I really wanted was to avoid having a voting war with some kid who had already done the challenges and/or just wanted to be a jerk.

Any thoughts? I'm fine with waiting out the ban but I'm just wondering if hard core FF guys are okay with what I did or if you think I'm the scum of the earth for wanting to play by myself :)


P.S. the Credit Ban squad probably also took into account the fact that my sister played as my guest in MM and probably had a total of 3 kills in 5 games lol so I'm sure they felt like they had plenty of evidence

  • 12.23.2011 7:33 AM PDT

Posted by: Tom T
Prolonged exposure to this forum is bad for your health.


Posted by: aBIueBooksheIf
because I like pen­is.

source

Game detected an afk player signed under your account.
Game doesn't care why it was afk, just that it was afk.
Game gave you a cR ban.

Enjoy.

  • 12.23.2011 7:36 AM PDT

Game... over.

  • 12.23.2011 7:37 AM PDT

Posted by: footballfiend5
Any thoughts? I'm fine with waiting out the ban but I'm just wondering if hard core FF guys are okay with what I did or if you think I'm the scum of the earth for wanting to play by myself :)
I lol'd.

[Edited on 12.23.2011 7:47 AM PST]

  • 12.23.2011 7:46 AM PDT

eh its a stupid rule
bungie/343 basicaly boned you for having fun at no ones expense

  • 12.23.2011 7:59 AM PDT
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Inheritor #156 :p

You broke a rule by AFKing your guest to get credits. Next time play legit and this wont happen.

PS: This was unnecessary to post here because Bungie has nothing to do with Reach anymore.

[Edited on 12.23.2011 8:04 AM PST]

  • 12.23.2011 8:04 AM PDT


Posted by: tsujen
You broke a rule by AFKing your guest to get credits. Next time play legit and this wont happen.

PS: This was unnecessary to post here because Bungie has nothing to do with Reach anymore.


u the fake forum ethics police?

  • 12.23.2011 8:12 AM PDT

I understand what you are saying you where only afking a guest in doubles so the only person it hurt was you. I do agree you shouldnt be banned for that provided your main got kills. However score attack is there for solo play, what annoys me are the groups of people that quit when its not the level they want to play etc. Why if they want a measly 3.000cr why they dont just whore score attack grunt firefight for an hour or two is just beyond me. I do agree the ban was alittle stupid in your case I wish all afkers had the decency to play solo than idle in a team ff game. However if it wasnt bannable bud they would probably be doing it and ranking up without playing and that is unfair to all inheritors that play legit.

[Edited on 12.23.2011 8:17 AM PST]

  • 12.23.2011 8:13 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: Kira Onime
Game detected an afk player signed under your account.
Game doesn't care why it was afk, just that it was afk.
Game gave you a cR ban.

Enjoy.

  • 12.23.2011 8:17 AM PDT
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Inheritor #156 :p


Posted by: Occupy Bungie

Posted by: tsujen
You broke a rule by AFKing your guest to get credits. Next time play legit and this wont happen.

PS: This was unnecessary to post here because Bungie has nothing to do with Reach anymore.


u the fake forum ethics police?

Yup that's me :D

  • 12.23.2011 8:21 AM PDT

Why not do score attack?

  • 12.23.2011 8:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Occupy Bungie

Posted by: tsujen
You broke a rule by AFKing your guest to get credits. Next time play legit and this wont happen.

PS: This was unnecessary to post here because Bungie has nothing to do with Reach anymore.


u the fake forum ethics police?


Pretty sure his the one who was right, you know?

I mean it's fair, if you want the team experience go team doubles, looking for solo, go to score attack, simple. The guest account was AFK because no one was playing it.

It doesn't matter if it didn't hurt anyone the system flagged it and BAM, as OP said credit banned.

You know what, I sound like an -blam!-, but still.

  • 12.23.2011 8:53 AM PDT