I know what I just said sounds a little bit crazy but ranks aren’t necessarily a good thing the way Halo is doing it…
Ranked should be an entirely separate category similar to how its done in games like Overwatch or Call of Duty where you can get that experience if you seek it out in a completely different location/area away from standard matchmaking…
Right now the only way you can play team arena is if you play in one of the ranked playlists there is no default “This is the normal Slayer/TDM” option games like CoD have…
“Social” modes should just be THE modes rename ranked as Spartan Company Wars or something so randoms can be randoms playing against random skill levels where winning doesn’t matter. If this happened it would also give ranks more meaning because you fought against actual companies and such in a side competitive setting instead of what should be the regular game…
The entire concept of “Social” and “Ranked” needs to go is what I’m getting at just have regular modes with no ranks and side competitive thing that will probably become irrelevant like CoDs clan wars instead of making the entire game clan wars…
There should also be a “Mercenaries” search preference for Arena and Warzone so it is 100% impossible to be put up against groups with it toggled
There was for a brief period some social playlists for Assault, Team arena and slayer playlists, what you call as Unranked, but everyone was complaining how it doesn’t seem social when people are getting rolled over by better players since they can literally be onyxes against golds. Right now the player base is too small to have so many playlists
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Those were unranked but the ranked modes were technically still considered the main versions in the list
I’m saying completely separate ranked and arena like how Warzone and Arena are separate to have that competitive section but limit it to 1-2 playlists
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Nothing is killing it. Halo is one of the most popular games on Xbox Live.
Another way I can possibly put it is right now there is “Social Slayer” throw that out the window make Slayer “Social Slayer” but not named Social slayer its just the new slayer and add a ranked Slayer in a new tab like Warzone is
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> Another way I can possibly put it is right now there is “Social Slayer” throw that out the window make Slayer “Social Slayer” and add a ranked Slayer in a new tab like Warzone is
Having split playlists for casual and ranked play is a fine idea but you need the population to support it. If they had done it from day 1 maybe it would work but until H6 its a little too late for now.
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Its literally been free for a while and can barely break top 10
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Good point I see what you mean now. For Halo 5 it probably is too late I agree.
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But waiting until the next game is gonna be even worse. I’m calling it now: Halo 6 will have worse sales compared to Halo 5. It’s been on a downward trend for the past 4+ years unfortunately. Halo 5 couldn’t save it’s population and fanbase, and the franchise isn’t getting enough new players to compete with the other AAA shooters out there.
Now maybe with the next game releasing on PC it will have better sales and might “breath some life” back into the series, but at this point I’m not too sure. Call me a downer if you want, I’d probably agree with you, but I like looking at the picture as a whole.
I can see why you would want this since you literally haven’t ranked in the last 4 seasons… and you have never been above platinum in a playlist that matters.
The competitive halo players, including myself, would probably leave the game if they got rid of ranks. The reason I play is to compete and push for Onyx in every playlist each season.
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I haven’t ranked above platinum because I’ve never attempted to climb out of it I just went with whatever they gave me and stopped…
A third or fourth of my total play time is spent in arena modes due to the way they do things only reason I onyx’d rumble rockets was because it was a ranked social mode at the time…Probably wouldn’t play it ever again if it went back to ranked due to my beliefs not to mention its a social mode and I shouldn’t of had to play it ranked or any mode ranked to begin with
Not playing it is in my case boycotting a major issue with the game which is ranked modes and their overall position in the game.
In my OP I offer a solution to this problem without hurting the people who would prefer competitive modes their right
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Exactly! It’s the 7th most popular game on Xbox, thanks for proving my point.
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> > Exactly! It’s the 7th most popular game on Xbox, thanks for proving my point.
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Can you guys not see thats not true?..
It Is currently 7th but before it was free it was well below 10th even
The thousands of new players have inflated it to only 7th place that’s pretty scary that it couldn’t break 5 being free for 5-6 days
Populations about to nosedive past 10th again next week when it updates
sereiously though no, terrible idea. Halo is ranked period. Its what makes tight close games so exhilarating. One of the reasons the past few tanked is because of similar ideas to this.