I was once an active member of the HaloWayPoint forums. When Halo 4 came out I was less than impressed, I said I didn’t like the game, even started a thread outlining things I felt could improve the state of the game.

After a while, I decided to step back from the forums, as people who weren’t 343i loving sycophants were getting banned for all sorts of BS… I posted to two threads I had started that I would no longer be monitoring my threads, so if anyone wanted my input, they’d have to message me to let me know.

Its been a little while since these threads had any activity (less than three months each), so the moderators “suspend” my account (until the year 2552) from the forums for “necroposting” of those threads. At the same time several other threads that were dormant far longer get “necroposted,” but none of those members gets suspended.

Of course, suspension from HaloWayPoint also suspends access to fileshare, so eventually I try requesting to lift the suspension. I couldn’t care less about their 343i lovefest that is HWP, I just want access to my fileshare. Request denied.

So a few years go by, I’m talking to friends online, mention my Halo Reach maps & they live overseas, naturally I go to upload my maps to my fileshare, then realise, “Oh yeah, that’s right, that suspension thing…” So I go email HWP asking again asking them to lift the suspension. What happens, they escalate the “ban” & now I can’t access any custom content on any Halo game, no custom maps, no custom game types, no custom anything.

So I contact Microsoft & what do they have to say? SORRY, you want your BAN lifted, go talk to HWP, as we can’t do anything, BANS from a game rest with the game developers & their forum moderators…

So no more Halo anything, cause I didn’t like Halo 4, nice move Microsoft, guess which console maker I won’t be recommending to my friends…