Now that the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta is officially over, Bungie will be hard at work analyzing the masses of data that they received from players and tweaking things for the final release in roughly four months. As with all beta tests, many players reported bugs they came across during play or pointed out things that they felt were imbalanced. With well over ten million games played, there was certainly a lot of proposed fixes but one feature that Bungie implemented in the Reach Beta that drew an exceptionally large amount of criticism on their feedback forum( [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] ) was the so-called "Quit Ban."

The way this "ban" works is that if you quit out a certain amount of games, you are automatically put on a week long probation period by the system. If you quit out of another game during that period, you are temporarily banned from matchmaking for fifteen minutes (and most likely restarts your probation timer). It isn't known how many games you have to leave to trigger the probation period, but many users on the Bungie forums have reported receiving a Quit Ban for leaving just one game. Sometimes, they didn't even leave but were disconnected or booted out for a betrayal. It seems now players will have to really watch their friendly fire or risk having their day of Halo ended prematurely by an accident.