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Bungie Wields the Banhammer
Gamespot reports that an update to Halo 2 via Xbox live has dropped the hammer on cheaters who have been warned in previous weeks to cease their malicious ways. From the article: "These undefeatable foes aren't some new alien species that have invaded the ruckus created by Bungie. These are the work of hackers and modders, gamers who spend time improving their stats with cheats at the expense of others. As with any high-profile title, cheaters will run rampant in an effort to 'pwn n00bs' and generally frustrate those who play fairly. Bungie has not taken kindly to these folk."
Why don't you just link the bungie.net article? News sites just continue a pointless cycle of linking.t oupdate4&p=4040317/
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=au
Yet, another part of me is saying "Ya know, I wish they diddnt have the power to do that. I mean, sure, they're cheaters, but they bought the game and now bungie gets to tell them how to play it?
They're not telling people how to play it, they're telling people how to play it on their servers (Xbox Live). If you had read TFA, you'd see that people are still able to play with their mods via system link. It's one thing if you hack the game for your own personal enjoyment, but completely wrecking their matchmaking service by unbalancing the game through cheating? C'mon, that's not even a fair comparison. It has absolutely nothing to do with your issue with software licenses.
Feedback is not handled by Bungie at all, however; it is handled by the Xbox Live Team. People banned based on feedback are banned from Live, not from any particular game. Quitting early, unfortunately, is not against the XBL Terms of Service. In fact, not even team-killing is.
English is easier said than done.
You can play the game any way you want to. You just can't cheat while playing on bungie's service. Seems fair to me.
If you went to play a game of pickup b-ball at the gym and proceeded to take the ball and run around screaming "my ball baby!! my ball!!" and not actually playing the game, do you think you'd be alowed to continue to play there even if you payed to get in? I doubt it, you'd be harming the experience that other people payed for too!
Now, you can go home and play with a basketball anyway you want. But as soon as you enter a public arena that you don't control you have to learn to play well with others.
Actaully its not griefing in this case. It's called de-leveling. Its what people do when they want to be jerks and destroy people that arnt as good as they are. So they play for a while....start loosing..then de-level so that they can play not as skilled people in order to "pwn" them.