This is a direct quote from the latest patch notes.
Does anyone know what a user might do to be banned? Does a ban stop the user from playing? If so, for how long?
Also does it effect PVE play in any way?
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The usual stuff: abusive language, deliberately trolling behaviour, using aimbots etc (on PC, hopefully not even possible on console), …
That would seem a logical thing to happen, yes. Fortunately, I’ve not been banned so I haven’t had to find this out from personal experience. (I’ve been band, but that’s something totally different and doesn’t have anything to do with playing video games.)
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They need to give very specific information on this. It’s no small thing to tell a person they can’t play a game they paid for.
Maybe they should save this until it’s free.
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Actually there are the Shift Terms of Service, which a player have to agree to for a Shift account and further to play Battleborn.
GBX is completely within their rights to ban players if these break rules which are declared in the terms of service.
I´d assume the penalties are short time-bans, as its common with online-games.
Many games have strike-systems, so you get banned like 3 hours first time, 12 hours for second strike, 24hours or 3 days for 3rd strike, and so on.
Personally I don´t know GBX handles this at the moment, I´ll dig trough the Forum, maybe there was a Dev-post I missed out.
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Save it? What makes you think they haven’t been banning people from the start?
Also, lots of games temp and perma ban people. Not saying I agree with it, but there it is.
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According to the description of online services, they don’t even have to tell you.
[quote]The Company may also impose limits on certain features and services or
restrict access to parts or all of the Online Services without notice or liability.[/quote]
So, basically this is just a friendly gesture to those who receive a time ban, to even find out how.
Personally, I never got banned from online games, so IDK why so many people react so emotional to the topic. I mean, you must’ve done something wrong to get banned in the first place.
And it’s not like anyone likes to ban people from their games.
So, if you don’t misbehave, it’s safe to feel welcome.
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Thanks. Just don’t want to do something I’m not supposed to do out of sheer ignorance. Also, I don’t want to get banned for being a quitter.
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Glad to play by the rules as long as I know what the rules are.
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Pretty sure the team looking at reports would take into account whether disconnects were deliberate (user quit game) or the result of server-side disconnects. I’m already seeing a distinction between these two situations in the system messages that pop up during PvE match-making and play. (Forget the exact words, but it’s pretty clear which were user-initiated and which were not.)
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Bane’d:
I really don’t think anyone should get banned for quitting in PVE. I have no problem when other people quit.
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Depends on when they quit. If they do it after deliberately racing through to trigger as many spawns as possible, they need to face some kind of consequence because everyone else now has much greater odds to face. If they do it gracefully between spawns so the game rescales before the next wave/area, I’m also fine with it.
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