Halo is not all about competition, you aren’t proving anything to me by rising up to the top of the leaderboars and getting the hghest rank in a week like its an addiction.
Halo is an experience.
You need friends to experience halo.
Reach may not be the best but I enjoy it because I have funny ad interesting friends from around the globe and people I know that I can play with.
No one plays Reach anymore so you decide to quit? Well then get on a gaming website like playfire and ask people ot play, I can assure you that people are still playing reach and will always continue to play Halo including Halo 4. There were 100k people on Reach last time I played, you only need 7 others if you want to play competitively.
So no one should be bashing Reach, if you are tired of the matchmaking then hop on Custom games, you’ll have some fun playing with friends unless you are a cold pperson who doesn’t like to laugh and disregards rag doll physics.
IMO I get better training from custom games than matchmaking even with no changes to gameplay besides the map location. Because in custom games you are usually paired with the same people whoo will hopefulyl stay for a while while more people who are friends of friends continue to join the game.
In matchmaking face it, even if you meet a good team or chatty people sometimes thy hardly party-up so you are still given other choices: Custom Games, Firefight, and Forge.
Enjoy it.