After reading the “Ranked Experience” blog it is clear that the direction of the normal ranking system is not going to change. I am glad 343i is getting what they want out of their system. As a consumer I would love for an alternative playlist for clans where the rank is purely based off of wins/losses (No hidden MMR determing matchmaking). It wouldn’t have to be clans, but seems like a clean way to pit 4v4 (no one is getting screwed on perceived skill level of teammates because they chose to be in the group) and stress the team factor of the game.
The current ranking system is boring and bringing in a Clan playlist with a leaderboard I think would add an enjoyable way to play ranked. Halo 2 style leveling, everyone starts at 1 and starts the climb up.
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Do you mean implementing Halo 2 clans, like in Halo 2? If so, then I 100% support that idea and would love to have that. You can only search with four players and go up from there. If you win you gain experience, if you lose you lose experience. This would motivate me and my friends to link up and specifically play that.
Would the playlist then be Arena playlist with HCS rules or something else?
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I would definitely prefer arena, but at this point anything would be great.
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Something that could possibly help others make friends in game, form groups and stop relying on a matchmaker to find teammates for them would probably benefit everyone in the long run.
Clans would be awesome.
Unfortunately 343 doesn’t care what we want, minimum expectations, or quality control.
If it doesnt make them money, they don’t care.
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You see, the answer is yes. I want featurized Spartan Companies, and this would be lots of fun.
Where it so easy…
I have friends to play with, but teaming up causes my games to get severe lag, so i can only play solo 
343 should finaly do something about it, because so far the updates only created more and more lag issues. I used to be able to play with friends while having discord open and watching one of my friends stream the game at the same time… All not posible anymore due to the game just not being optimalized for pc
That would be a great system imo.
Would be a great way to find people to play customs with
I don’t quite think it is “they don’t care what we want”, I just think that my desires may not match theirs. And even if it did, it may not rank high on their priority list. It would be really interesting to see how the teams workload is divided and if once forge is implemented an co-op campaign are out that frees up resources, hopefully aiding the lack of content/feature issues.
I think I am in a minority upon reading forums, where I am glad the game is out in its current state (as opposed to not at all). It is my preferred shooter over anything else that is out right now and appears to have had significantly less issues than other major franchises. I am frustrated with several things and hope there will be improvements.
My big takeaway from that blog is the system in place is largely what they want and I am hopeful there is a way to satisfy what I imagine is a smaller portion of the population frustrations with ranked. I think clans makes the most sense to get a ranked system solely based on wins/losses and still allows them to keep all the other ranked playlists what they deem superior. In general the current ranking system is one of the most boring I’ve played over my many years gaming.
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I’m right there with you for sure on that one.