Ranked is supposed to be were people go to test themselves against other players in a competitive environment. Yet as soon as you add challenges people quit out of games as soon as they see they will not be able to complete the challenge. Plus adding in play 2 ranked CTF matches is just obviously saying we wanna fill our ranked mode with players.
Ranked should be a player choice to enter it not forced upon players to complete challenges regardless on weather or not you’ve got a tournament going on or not. If you want challenges in ranked make a separate challenge system specifically for ranked. Not just thrown into show how popular the mode is.
I have a feeling if the custom game browser ever release they’re going to do the same thing. I could be wrong.
Yeah these challenges are pretty much to promote ranked. I liked these challenges, but for the never rankers out there I totally agree.
Halo MCC had ranked challenges but that didn’t stop players from doing the other challenges.
For the sake of the community’s sanity I hope this is a one time thing. Or just create a separate challenge reward full of ranked challenges with different rewards
So basically have two ultimate reward systems, one for ranked and one for social. If they put cool rewards for ranked then I would imagine people would play. But then they’d have less things to sell in the store
Ranked challenges definitely need to go. You should never force people to play one type of mode, especially ranked. I’ve seen too many people that are playing clearly just for the challenge and all it does is infuriate people because they can tell that they’re new.
I see no issue with them wanting to toss in a ranked challenge from time to time. It is their game to do as they wish too. There’s also plenty of people that want ranked challenges as well.
I’ve lost more games this week in ranked due to terrible teammates than in previous weeks, and I’m seeing the sentiment echoed by many. There’s a lot of other problems with ranked right now, but I’m at the point where I don’t want to play ranked because it feels pointless no matter how well I do. The challenges in ranked are not helping, and I think the influx of casual players into it this week is partly to blame.
It’s not 1 ranked challenge it’s a quarter of all challenges this week revolves around ranked. Another pathetic little troll ohh suck it up buttercup cause I’m the bestest ever. Go troll elsewhere idiot.
They said in the official twitch stream a few days ago that they did that this week because or Raleigh to try to get more people into HCS. Next week will probably be like previous weeks where there is only one or two win ranked match challenges
Full agree. I’m really sick of having people drop out of ranked matches because of this and the rest of the team getting completely screwed bc then we don’t get bots or anyone else in queue shuffled in to fill those empty spots.
Plus, people who’d like to complete the weekly challenge but are crap at ranked/hate ranked/can’t get the right game modes AND the win necessary/can’t swap out ranked challenges for regular. There’s just so much wrong with making ranked part of the challenges.
UNLESS. Maybe. There was one challenge per week that was a “complete 1 or 2 ranked matches” as in, stay in the game and complete it, and you finish the challenge. Not specific game modes, not specifying a win. Just get in there, try your best, and stay in it til it’s over. But even then I feel like that might encourage folks to AFK.
This week probably 25% of the challenges or more were ranked, at least for me (I only swapped one of them). We’re saying ranked challenges should be separate on its own challenge list. And I’m saying this as someone who plays and enjoys ranked. When something like this is forced it takes the fun of playing out of it, especially for those who find ranked frustrating, unrewarding, or just annoying and would rather not bother with it. No one needs to “suck it up”, most people don’t play games with the intent to suffer.
Well that was clearly just for this week. The guys title requests that there be no ranked challenges at all, which is unfair for people who want ranked challenges.
They’ve stated that one of the reasons challenges exist is to get people to try new things they would normally ignore out right. If anything, that’s what challenge swaps are for ( at least outside of this week, which don’t work on ranked challenges ).
If your worried about leveling up yoiur battle pass, it’s actually not remotely difficult to level up even without focusing on challenges altogether. I haven’t finished one weekly challenge and I hit 71 today.
I’m not worried about levelling, I’m doing just fine even without the premium. What I am concerned about is people with no vested interest in ranked being forced to participate in specific ranked match types, which are random, who often drop out if it isn’t the right mode. This screws over players who are actually playing ranked for its intended purpose - competition. Every time someone in my group (including me) tried to swap out a ranked challenge it came back with a different ranked challenge instead of a social challenge. I think that’s wrong. I don’t think it’s fair to anyone. Yes, challenges are called that for a reason, and it’s good to try things that you haven’t before, but if you’ve tried ranked, and you hate it, or you’re complete crap at it, I don’t think it’s right to continue to force people to do ranked challenges to try for a limited weekly reward (that may or may not be available again) or just for the extra xp.
Errr no they don’t. If someone doesn’t like playing ranked, they shouldn’t have too. That’s why playlist only challenges are bad and really dumb. I can tell you right now if I get challenges that are in SWAT… Oh I mean tactical Slayer (which is beyond dumb calling it that) or infection or something and I can’t change them, I won’t play as much that week FOR SURE because I know I can’t complete it because I have zero interest in those type of playlists. And if I’m not playing the game then 343 might lose out on exposing me to whatever that I may potentially buy because I’m not playing it.
If people can’t complete the weekly challenge they’re most likely not going to play as much. Worst case scenario, they don’t play at all which then means 343 loses their attention maybe for that week, Maybe longer, maybe permanently!!! And that’s not good because then they lose potential sales.
It’s in 343’s best interest to make people want to play EVERYDAY to temp them to potentially buy an armor set or something. A player can’t do this if they’re not playing the game or not playing as much. Case in point, playlist only challenges are bad for the bottom line!
I agree, they are. A lot of people today, especially kids, need stuff like this. They “need” a reason to keep playing. Back in the '80s especially and '70s a bit it was all about getting the highest score. That’s what made people keep coming back and playing. Lucky, I grew up in the best time of gaming 80s/90s in my opinion that didn’t have all this Mircotransactions crap or You have to log on everyday to get x item or whatever
…but games today aren’t geared towards me or people like me. Hence, 343I should be doing everything in their power to make people want to come on and play every single day and having playlist only challenges doesn’t do this! Especially ranked because a lot of people don’t want to play ranked as they’re intimidated by it or they don’t like the different rules or whatever.
So to conclude, playlist only challenges is A terrible idea and is definitely not good for the bottom line, hence I say, get ride of them!
