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Subject: Is the matchmaking quit ban system broken?

Ok, so I got banned before from quitting too much, which is like 5 games or something? Anyways, after that, the message warning you that you quit too many games recently keeps popping up. For some unknown reason, I am now temporarily banned from matchmaking for quitting one game. Yeah, just one. This happened earlier today after my whole team quit, and I didn't want to play 1v4. And now again, after my entire team quits because they can't even bear to lose a game, they quit, and again, I don't want to play 1v4. So now I'm banned again.

I really don't get this, shouldn't I be able to quit more than one game before I'm banned again?

  • 07.16.2012 8:32 PM PDT

No. For the next three days, you will receive a 10 minute ban every time you quit. This is because you have a history of quitting excessively. If you continue to quit so excessively during this time, the three days will be extended.

Stop quitting and you won't have the problem.

  • 07.16.2012 8:35 PM PDT


Posted by: burritosenior
No. For the next three days, you will receive a 10 minute ban every time you quit. This is because you have a history of quitting excessively. If you continue to quit so excessively during this time, the three days will be extended.

Stop quitting and you won't have the problem.


That's retarded, when I stopped playing this game a while ago it wasn't like that. Now that I started to play it again everything has changed. God it sucks now.

  • 07.16.2012 8:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Newkzzz

Posted by: burritosenior
No. For the next three days, you will receive a 10 minute ban every time you quit. This is because you have a history of quitting excessively. If you continue to quit so excessively during this time, the three days will be extended.

Stop quitting and you won't have the problem.


That's retarded, when I stopped playing this game a while ago it wasn't like that. Now that I started to play it again everything has changed. God it sucks now.
Its called probation. If you go in alone alot, I feel your pain.

  • 07.16.2012 8:51 PM PDT

Posted by: Newkzzz
That's retarded, when I stopped playing this game a while ago it wasn't like that. Now that I started to play it again everything has changed. God it sucks now.
This system has been in place since day one.

Stop quitting and you won't have a problem. The VAST majority of players never encounter the quit ban. Why? Because most people don't quit nearly that much. Again, don't quit and you won't have a problem.
:/

  • 07.16.2012 8:54 PM PDT

As a solo player, almost every single game I play has at least one person leave. I've been on probation for about a week because I play a lot during the day and at least one of those matches turns into 4v1 or 8v3 or some ridiculous ratio because people (or groups of really bad players) leave the game and it is not at all fun to get slaughtered by 4 people.

This system is absolutely brutal. There is no way to go a day without ending up in one of these games or getting booted for a purely accidental betrayal. I hear what you're saying, but for anyone who doesn't team up a ton, being on one quit probation the entire day, from your first log on until last, is absolutely impossible not to end up perpetuating the length of probation because of some very deserved quits.

[Edited on 07.16.2012 10:09 PM PDT]

  • 07.16.2012 9:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Therongear
you could try signing out/disconnecting ethernet cord during the lobby, the game won't give you a 10 minute ban or add on to the warning.

i usually do it when people vote for those awful forge maps, going against a full team on an objective gametype, and in multi-team when im paired up with a player and their unskilled guest.


Thank for this suggestion- I hadn't thought about that. Those are exactly the type of games I end up leaving (a lot of time those unskilled guests end up leaving and you end up all alone on a team against four overly-agressive jerks).

  • 07.16.2012 9:22 PM PDT

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  • 07.16.2012 9:41 PM PDT

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  • 07.16.2012 10:11 PM PDT

I was let off probation, quit one game and was put back on. I'd say it's broken. I just find something else to do, or hop on an alt account for a game.

  • 07.17.2012 8:48 AM PDT


Posted by: Penguin Egg
I was let off probation, quit one game and was put back on. I'd say it's broken. I just find something else to do, or hop on an alt account for a game.


No, it's working.

This really ins't a hard concept. Stop quitting. If you guys want to quit left and right, go to CoD.

  • 07.17.2012 8:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior
No. For the next three days, you will receive a 10 minute ban every time you quit. This is because you have a history of quitting excessively. If you continue to quit so excessively during this time, the three days will be extended.

Stop quitting and you won't have the problem.

Wrong. Quit bans operate on a short term basis dependent only on how many games you play.


I feel your pain OP. I have a bad internet that arbitrarily disconnects me at random.

  • 07.17.2012 9:50 AM PDT

That happens to me too (network issues). so we don't play 2 days, then its back to where it was before the ban.

  • 07.17.2012 9:58 AM PDT

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Honestly, this entire situation could be avoided if you decided to play another game and wait out the Probation like that. personally, my favorite way to do that is with Minecraft or Mass Effect.

  • 07.17.2012 10:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: CellarDoorProse
There is no way to go a day without ending up in one of these games or getting booted for a purely accidental betrayal.
Then man, have I defied the odds.

  • 07.17.2012 10:15 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."

Don't quit a single game for three days.

  • 07.17.2012 11:45 AM PDT


Posted by: Old Papa Rich
Posted by: CellarDoorProse
There is no way to go a day without ending up in one of these games or getting booted for a purely accidental betrayal.
Then man, have I defied the odds.


I'm curious how many matches you are playing alone then. I play at least 20 matches a day (all alone, none of my friends play Halo) and always end up in some horrendous one. The ones I do stay in, I just find amazing hiding spots as to not get spawn camped for the remaining 30 kills.

  • 07.17.2012 2:14 PM PDT

Third game I play today, hmm...wonder what happens...other team starts beating up on some bad randoms, they leave, its 4v1, hello quit ban. The score at that point was about 12 to 5, I'm not bothering with 38 deaths, that shouldn't seem unreasonable.

[Edited on 07.17.2012 3:26 PM PDT]

  • 07.17.2012 3:25 PM PDT

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What playlist are you playing? If its BTB, lol don't bother going in alone. So many teams in there as of late.

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  • 07.17.2012 6:26 PM PDT

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I play almost exclusively alone and do not experience what you described.

You quit too much. Stop.

You'll find your probation periods dropping dramatically.


Posted by: CellarDoorProse

Posted by: Old Papa Rich
Posted by: CellarDoorProse
There is no way to go a day without ending up in one of these games or getting booted for a purely accidental betrayal.
Then man, have I defied the odds.


I'm curious how many matches you are playing alone then. I play at least 20 matches a day (all alone, none of my friends play Halo) and always end up in some horrendous one. The ones I do stay in, I just find amazing hiding spots as to not get spawn camped for the remaining 30 kills.

  • 07.17.2012 7:09 PM PDT


Posted by: CellarDoorProse
Third game I play today, hmm...wonder what happens...other team starts beating up on some bad randoms, they leave, its 4v1, hello quit ban. The score at that point was about 12 to 5, I'm not bothering with 38 deaths, that shouldn't seem unreasonable.


Yeah, that happens to me every day. This is why the quit ban is ridiculous and shouldn't even be there.

  • 07.17.2012 7:25 PM PDT

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