From everything I’ve heard and read I still haven’t found the answer. Has 343 given an answer as to why they don’t want us to be able to see our CSR ranks in game? I haven’t heard any of my halo friends say that they like the idea of having to check Waypoint for their CSR rank. I don’t know why anyone would want to have to do that and why 343 would make it so. These games I’ve been playing are a complete joke. Since when are guests allowed in a “ranked” game? This game is getting more boring by the day. There’s no competition. The fact that people can back out of a game before the maps are chosen without penalty is also a joke. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had teams back out against mine because they’re afraid of losing or hurting their K/D ratio. It’s pathetic. Refusing to play a team for a fear of losing should yield some type of penalty. Instead there’s none so everyone does it. I’ve had teams back out 3 or 4 times in a row!
I understand that 343 wants to make Halo 4 different in its own ways then previous Halo games, but why couldn’t they have made separate ranked and unranked playlists like it was in halo 3? Those that want to play competitive games could search the ranked playlists while all the kids who didn’t could search the “social” playlists? It doesn’t seem to be unreasonable or impossible task so why not do it that way? Otherwise those of us who are actually pretty good at this game and search with a full party end up playing one-sided boring games 9/10 times. Can anyone actually give me a straight answer to these questions or has 343 indeed failed to give us actual reasons why other than they have a “vision” as to what they want halo 4 to be? How about something more than they couldn’t. Maybe an actual answer as to why not?
It is due to technical limitations. The UI for H4 wasn’t created to be altered in the way necessary to add it in game.
343i didn’t want 1-50 rankings but due to a ton of request they have added it the only way possible.
Hopefully they think ahead about the ranking for H5 and add it in some meaningful way. I would be happy with them adding Arena back into the mix as i found that more of a test of ones TrueSkill.
Thanks for the links. That clears up quite a bit. Developer competency limitations… lmao. That is a good way of putting it. I love Halo, but this game is just not fun to play anymore. Fewer people are playing it, some of my friends have quit playing it. I was looking forward to CSR but really nothing has changed. It sounds like 343 could theoretically fix their crappy code and eventually allow us to see our CSR ranks in game, but they don’t want to because it will take too many man hours to do so and that of course will cost too much money. They are in it to make a profit so why should we expect anything different? I guess they’ll get what they deserve for making such an idiotic mistake eventually many more will decide to no longer put up with this garbage and spend their time doing something else that doesn’t involve being irked by such a crappy product. I may be one of those people in the near future.
It wasn’t planned for because 343 was afraid of hurting grown mens’ feelings. It also wasn’t planned for because some people would figure out ways to exploit it (as do they for every other system with any sort of incentive behind it), but for some reason they put in a progression system with rewards for progressing. And we all no no one tries to exploit that, right?
It wasn’t added in-game after they realized it was a beneficial and longed for feature because the menus were horribly constructed and only that which was planned for can be altered in them, unlike Bungie’s intuitive (and much older?) menus.