Halo developers shut down one of the dumbest myths surrounding the game

Halo Infinite will reportedly ban you if you tea-bag someone, which one of the devs has called out as “not a thing.”

If you’re unfamiliar with tea-bagging in video games you’re either too young to know or you’ve only recently gotten into gaming, but in short it’s when you crouch up and down on top of a player you’ve killed in-game.

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It’s been a staple of Halo games ever since the early days of online multiplayer, though in 2024 some consider it to be a bannable offence, a silly reality but it’s the one we live in.

The discourse went a step further the other day when someone posted on X that they’d “just got banned on Halo Infinite for bagging? WTF?!?”

Fans immediately turned to the developers for answers, to which one of the lead devs John Junyszek said: “Yeah, that's not a thing. A 30 min timeout is automated and only happens after quitting *multiple* games in a short amount of time.

“It's always prefaced by a 10 min timeout too, so that means there was likely a lot of quitting leading up to it.”

So there you have it, the player got outed by the devs themselves for poor matchmaking conduct, and you can safely mock the enemy team as much as you like without worrying about a ban.

Halo: Infinite is actually well-worth playing right now if you haven’t logged in a while, it’s been updated extensively since launch with new content, cosmetics and general bug fixes.

It’s not the perfect Halo game by any means, and it still stings that we haven’t received any new single player content, but the team at 343 have done a good job of getting it to a stable state.