Resporting gamers Xbox 360

[MK4 Slowride]

As some of you know I often am on line with a mate who has a penchant for killing me & other people on the same side (he thinks it's funny ) and some kids say they'll report him. Do Microsoft actually do anything with the complaints?

Also for £40 per year Xbox live why the do they have crap servers that take ages to load & often mess up? Trading standards?

ETA: Mods can you change the title to Reporting, I messed up. Cheers.

Edited by MK4 Slowride on Thursday 22 November 16:18

[Steve Evil]

Yes they do, once they get a certain number of complaints then they will look into it and might ban them for a certain amount of time, or forever in some cases. Obviously certain complaints will get a quicker response, racial attacks are likely to be higher on their list than team killers.

This site gives you a general flavour of how it works:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/personality/di...

Edited by Steve Evil on Thursday 22 November 16:25

[scorp]

MK4 Slowride said:

As some of you know I often am on line with a mate who has a penchant for killing me & other people on the same side (he thinks it's funny ) and some kids say they'll report him. Do Microsoft actually do anything with the complaints?

Also for £40 per year Xbox live why the do they have crap servers that take ages to load & often mess up? Trading standards?

ETA: Mods can you change the title to Reporting, I messed up. Cheers.

Edited by MK4 Slowride on Thursday 22 November 16:18

There was a recent article from some gaming website about this, they setup a 360 account and harrassed people constantly for a few weeks before earning a ban, even going as far as posing semi-naked on a webcam on that xbox live card game.

As far as servers go, a lot of games use one of the players 360 as the server and everyone else as a client (Halo3, Cod4) so the quality is down to whoever is selected as the server (apparently random, or reputation based in halo3). Halo3 and Cod4 still use their own servers to maintain the ranking ladders.

Edited by scorp on Thursday 22 November 16:32

[MK4 Slowride]

scorp said:

MK4 Slowride said:

As some of you know I often am on line with a mate who has a penchant for killing me & other people on the same side (he thinks it's funny ) and some kids say they'll report him. Do Microsoft actually do anything with the complaints?

Also for £40 per year Xbox live why the do they have crap servers that take ages to load & often mess up? Trading standards?

ETA: Mods can you change the title to Reporting, I messed up. Cheers.

Edited by MK4 Slowride on Thursday 22 November 16:18

There was a recent article from some gaming website about this, they setup a 360 account and harrassed people constantly for a few weeks before earning a ban, even going as far as posing semi-naked on a webcam on that xbox live card game.

As far as servers go, a lot of games use one of the players 360 as the server and everyone else as a client (Halo3, Cod4) so the quality is down to whoever is selected as the server (apparently random, or reputation based in halo3). Halo3 and Cod4 still use their own servers to maintain the ranking ladders.

Edited by scorp on Thursday 22 November 16:32

What gets me is paying the £40 only to be kept waiting for ages for a game to begin if I'm not with you guys. It's the old my time is worth £'s but I'm paying them to wait.

[scorp]

MK4 Slowride said:

What gets me is paying the £40 only to be kept waiting for ages for a game to begin if I'm not with you guys. It's the old my time is worth £'s but I'm paying them to wait.

Depends on the game i guess, Halo3 takes a long time to sort a match. COD4 lets you join some games mid-match so there is none of that waiting for players to join the lobby boocks, but as a counterpoint, it allows unbalancing as a load of decent players could join the other team.

[MK4 Slowride]

scorp said:

MK4 Slowride said:

What gets me is paying the £40 only to be kept waiting for ages for a game to begin if I'm not with you guys. It's the old my time is worth £'s but I'm paying them to wait.

Depends on the game i guess, Halo3 takes a long time to sort a match. COD4 lets you join some games mid-match so there is none of that waiting for players to join the lobby boocks, but as a counterpoint, it allows unbalancing as a load of decent players could join the other team.

I'd have found this out 1st hand had I not been a muppet & got the wrong game.

[scorp]

Get it traded back in! I was wondering what you were doing the other night when i added you to my friend list and saw you playing MOH, i then realised what you meant by "that ww2 game"

[Mannginger]

MK4 Slowride said:

I'd have found this out 1st hand had I not been a muppet & got the wrong game.

:joeydeakonsmiley:

[Polarbert]

scorp said:

MK4 Slowride said:

What gets me is paying the £40 only to be kept waiting for ages for a game to begin if I'm not with you guys. It's the old my time is worth £'s but I'm paying them to wait.

Depends on the game i guess, Halo3 takes a long time to sort a match. COD4 lets you join some games mid-match so there is none of that waiting for players to join the lobby boocks, but as a counterpoint, it allows unbalancing as a load of decent players could join the other team.

That also happens if a bunch of guys are in a clan on COD4. You could have one team between 10-20 rank, and the other side in the 50s, and just because they are all the same clan the game won't balance the teams.