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From Bungie.net:
"Anonymous Coward asks,
Is boosting cheating? And will I get banned for it?
Yes. As a matter of fact, you were actually stupid enough to include your Gamertag in this message, but by the time I'd checked, you had already been banned for matchmaking forever, because you'd already served out a seven day suspension and learned nothing from it. We're banning like crazy now, because we have better tools for detecting it. Boosting, for the non-cheaters amongst you, is the practice of "fixing" games so you play with your similarly idiotic buddy and artificially increase each others' rank. It sticks out like a sore thumb in our system kids. So QUIT DOING IT. And also, quit whining to me about your banning. I don't care. I look at the stats for every whiner email I get and they ALWAYS turn out to be a cheat. "It was my brother….waaah." Well, even if it was your alleged brother, your account is being used to ruin everyone's experience. So bye-bye."
Another good one:
On a Halo 2 'snipers only' game one american kid shouts "I took down the sniper!"
....
Guy on Rainbow Six 3 charges across the bottom of Warehouse as grenades land about him:
"Don't worry guys we'll definately make it this ti--"
Entire team bursts into laughter.
American kid:
"Yeah we beat you guys in the war of independence like 2000 years ago"
"No, £%^% he's got a Noble again"
*leaves*
Pointless person.
I think it's fixing it so that you both appear in the same rumble pit game to team-up etc.
Having an unbalanced team is commonplace and if the matchmaking system screws up and matches a level 1 with a level 12 then that's not your party's fault.
Is it when you play a game in a party and you are all pretty much the same level apart from one guy who is like level 1 and his stats get boosted?
> "Yeah we beat you guys in the war of independence like 2000
> years ago"
Yup.
That's what I always get. Another favourite is..
"Dude, our army's bigger than yours, we'd so nuke you"
"Do you actually do anything of worth for your country other than sit on your fat ass and play 'video games'?"
"F*** you British fag, we'd nuke you"
"Thank god the full power of the American army isn't in the hands of some fat nerd sitting on his couch cussing people out over the internet"
British People: ...Wtf?
Also, my mates and I have been mistaken for Czechoslovakian, Irish, Australian and French by some retarded Americans.
American - "Whoa! You're BRITISH? What the f**k?!?!?!"
Me - "...?"
American - "Hey, Limey boy! What's spotted d*ck?! HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!" (etc)
Me - "I got it when I did your mum."
American - *swears at me for about 30 seconds then leaves*
Morons.