What happened to this game
I'm an absolute halo veteran. Played since halo one. Grew up playing this game. Fast forward and it's been a few years since I played so I figured what the heck. Unpacked the old Xbox, got everything updated, bought a month of online and figured I'd get a few games in.
Played one day and it went decently well. Felt different for some reason. Can't quite put my finger on it. But not terrible.
Week later i decide alright let's give it another shot. Play a couple of games. Ended up in an 8v8 where the other team had all power weapons and all vehicles. Gauss sniped across the map on seemingly impossible shots. Finally i just said you know what? This isn't even fun in the slightest. Left the game. The game warns me you can be banned for leaving games but I figured it's only one game. So what? Joined another game and it goes great. No problems at all.
Try to queue up another and suddenly "you have been temporarily banned from matchmaking"
For what? We aren't allowed to leave a single game? Absolutely NOT the way to get players back into the game. What have they done to my halo? What is this garbage nonsense?
Edit for extra info:
My first ban for quitting a single game is 10 hours long