So I just wanted to give people who get freezes sometimes while in online matchmaking a heads up (player or ranked doesn't matter, it was player for me), don't press Alt+F4 as it will recognize it as a Rage Quit. If you do this freely each time the game freezes up and "Synchronizing" doesn't appear you will eventually, just like me, get banned.
The guy i was playing with told me that that happened to him too once, and that he was told to instead press "Alt+Enter" to minimize the screen and click on the Red "X" instead of Alt+F4. That way it wouldn't register as a rage quit while freezing. EDIT: Banned again, March 19th 2015 around 5 PM, same BS game froze for 10 mins, tried the "safe" version and still got banned. Don't. Leave. Period.
Unbanned 3 days later, the ban seems to be at 3 days for anyone wondering.
He also said it could take up to 30 days, so be wary... :O
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