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>"Halo 5: Guardians is engineered to detect and track" a variety of misbehavior, including betrayals, intentional suicides, quits and
>excessive disconnects, and idling.
>"If you repeatedly engage in negative behaviors such as (these) you will receive a ban and be prevented from entering matchmaking,"
>Bungie wrote.
So much wrong in those first two paragraphs.
Well holy shit, you can get banned for excessive disconnects. When Halo The Master Chief collection first came out, there was an issue where people disconnected not because they were assholes, but because the game had networking issues. The first few months of the game had virtually unplayable online. Since the game had a reputation that online was a mess to deal with, people did not end up buying it or trade ins happened. Thus, the online user base shrunk. Halo MCC came out in November of 2014, and had a low player base then and continues to have a low player base now.
>excessive idling
The fuck does excessive idling mean? What does excessive disconnecting mean? Stricter than MLG? It seems to imply if I have to take a shit one too many time while in the middle of playing multiplayer, I might get banned from match making because I did not take Halo too seriously. My concern is that there is no definition on excessive and seems more like damage control for the fact that MCC online has a low user base where matches are low quality or these users cannot get into the matches they want since not all the play lists have a huge user base. And people do quit matches, not because they are assholes, but because there is a likely chance that a multiplayer match is not gonna be fun. There was no penalty here cause 343 did not put one in to begin with. Now they seem to be going on the other side of the spectrum with stricter rules where you can get banned for deciding not to play the game in a middle of a match one too many times. Unfortunately, since the rules of excessive are vague, one has to assume the worst.
>Bungie
>INB4 Polygon didunuffin like with Phil Owens
It is one thing for getting a little detail wrong, but Owen S. Good who wrote this article made that huge mistake twice. This is information that could be easily verified by most search engines. Bungie has not been associated with Halo for years. Am I missing something here? Did Bungie all of suddenly crawl back to Microsoft or something? Or is Polygon finding a way to be stupid again? I just cannot believe this site could allow such a huge mistake on a huge triple A title.
Fucking Poe's Law