• halomhm214423534
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Posted by: halofreak157
I think bungie should do what Call of duty does
make quitting count as a loss not a loss in EX or rank

That implies that I give a crap about my win/loss ratio.

Posted by: The Crow SMK
But Bungie is basically saying now you are obligated to finish this game OR BE BANNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I am not having fun in the game such as I am getting betrayed, teammates consistently commit suicide, or its just not the game I am into, then I think I reserve the right to quit. I thought Bungie made this game for recreational purposes, not some kind of job that I have to sit behind.

Being a college student, (a military college might I add) I have many obligations and I find myself leaving games from time to time. Even though I love Halo and have supported it all the way through, Bungie feels the need to punish me because I ruined a game? Like who is honestly being the cry baby here. The guy who quit, or the players who are complaining cause they lost? Hypocrisy at its best I guess.

I definitely don't think that people should get banned for quitting, but like yamabara and I said ... just make a timeout penalty. It is reasonable. If I'm playing CTF and some kid on my team is getting killed and then he rage quits ... why should I take a almost guaranteed loss because some kid can't control his temper.

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Posted by: BigBuckinChickn
it seems like it will definately help keep people from quiting. but it seems like it wont keep casual quiters from quiting. There should be a 3 minute wait for quiting no matter what with more serious countermeasures later.

I just want to say that poker sites do the same thing to stop people from going all in with play money... it doesn't work.

• halofreak157
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Actually the banning thing i think will not work
Cause Bungie won't be able to tell the Difference
Between lagging out of games
or if someone is actually quitting so
i don't think this banning people
for quitting thing will work.

Cause if people got banned cause there
internet lagged them out of games, then Bungie might
actually get allot of hate mail From
allot of angry people out there for being banned
for being lagged out of games and thats no
Reason for being banned

• BenevolentTryant
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The majority of the Halo population do not quit for ranks, the majority of the Halo population do not quit for stats, and the majority of the Halo population certainly do not quit for no reason.

We do not quit very often: infact most of our quits are either due to crappy connection, or very unfair matches. Both of which SHOULD be eliminated by MatchMaking. In the cases that MatchMaking fails to eliminate those incredibly frustrating factors, We will quit, regardless.

Why should we be PUNISHED for the System's faults?

Maybe Bungie should focus on implanting a fairer MatchMaking, than punish their customers for what their game fails to do. Im sure the Majority of Halo players do not enjoy quitting, and will not quit unless they get a totally -blam!- game.

My Point is, If Bungie actually took time to fix matchmaking, instead of using their Hammer "aggressively". The quitting problem would be much alleviated.

[Edited on 05.10.2010 6:15 PM PDT]

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Suggestion: If a player quits, his teammates are prompted to say whether it was "valid" or not. If the teammate is voted by majority "valid," the banhammer takes this into consideration (not fully rescinding the possibility of punishment, seeing as a bunch of friends could go in, quit, and vote each other valid to avoid the ban). If the player is not voted valid, it doesn't harshen the punishment/possibility of punishment (because of possibly abuse issues), but just has no effect.

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I like the idea of the mild ban for the users that quit frequently for preventative measures.

My feedback however would be for what to do with the remaining players. If the game results in, as I've been on the receiving end of before in previous Halo games, one versus eight there should be some sort of intervention by the game system to support that lone soldier. In the method of the mentioned "sudden death" concept or perhaps a weakening of the enemy player's shields or an immediate juggernaut style of play where it takes all eight people working as a team to kill the one.

I think that it would be pretty neat even if the game ended up being four versus eight but with the four being basically equivalent to two people each or the eight being equivalent to four.

Maybe if playing a slayer variant one kill from the quitter's team results in the equivalent difference in players. So one versus eight, the one gets seven or eight kill points for one kill. This idea seems less useable and more whine friendly.

That's pretty much my feedback on quitting and things that should be done. I really don't care what happens to the quitter; what I, and to assert most people, care about is what happens to the players still playing the game.

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um i got a problem with the quitting time outs because what if you like have to go or if your mom calls XD not that i am one of those (mom died :/ ) so i dont see how that would be fair to those players

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I think its a good idea but it could have some flaws... i play halo ALOT but sometimes i need to eat dinner or lunch and have to leave the game... i won't like it when i need to go to a birthday or go outside with my friends and then have a day's suspension from halo just because i have a life and need to go outside once in a while. but it's annoying if i need to leave for something in real life and then can't play online or lose a rank i mean sometimes a leave (rarely though) and i don't think it might really work since adult gamer's have jobs and Girlfriends and family to take care of and teen gamers have friends to play with. i don't understand why people think its good to have suspension for hours when you have an emergency?

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What are you all talking about?!! Quitting gives you the ultimate test of your skills. When the rest of your team has abandoned yu and you stand alne against four, nothing is a bigger test of your halo skill!!!! Of course some gametypes like CTF would be much more difficult but a person could still win! I've been stuck in many games where it ends up 1v4 but I still ahng in there and let me tell ya, I've won about 75% of those games!

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Posted by: Spartan TT117
Posted by: GermanKid
um i got a problem with the quitting time outs because what if you like have to go or if your mom calls XD not that i am one of those (mom died :/ ) so i dont see how that would be fair to those players
If you have to go somewhere, you shouldn't be bothered by a timeout since you won't be there anyway.

So many people use the excuse that they had to go somewhere. My question for these people is, why did you start a game when you knew had to leave for something in the first place.If someone calls

An emergency

Bad planning

There are many reasons ... I've had a class and thought i could fit in a game before my class and had to quit because of bad planning. The fact is I bought the game and pay to play online and shouldn't be harshly punished for quitting. A timeout is a very acceptable and fair punishment but a xp loss or ban are way to harsh and unfair

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I think there should be a banning period for those people who are split up from their party and feel the need to ruin the game for the opposing team. I can't tell you how many times I have had a team-killing jerk on my team because they were too big of babies to fight their party members. Losers like that ruin the game for others and should be penalized. There should be some sort of automated complaint system that takes your complaint, views the circumstances, and decides what sort of punishment is needed, if any. If it saw that a person was in a party with people on the other team and was team-killing, it could punish them. Of course it isn't always that simple, but it would be nice to have an option to ban jerks like that for a short amount of time.

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Posted by: The Crow SMK
I dont see what the purpose is of putting in a quit option if Bungie is gonna punish you for it.

Because there are times when a quit option is appropriate, such as your house catching on fire, but that doesn't mean you should abuse it. Plus, people would find a way to quit out of games without a quit option.