Two qualifications here: (1) I’m nowhere near SR130 myself, as you’ll note if you check my profile; and (2) I don’t posit that xp-based ranking is a valid substitute for skill-based ranking. That said…
What’s the relative time investment to get to SR130 as compared to what it took to get to Inheritor in Reach? The reason I ask is that I see people talking about getting to or nearing the max rank in H4 already, which seems… unfortunate. XP-based ranking in Reach wasn’t a perfect system, to be sure, but at least it took weeks and months to reach max-rank, not just a couple of weeks. If it takes significantly less time to reach max rank in H4 than it took to reach Inheritor in Reach, won’t people just lose interest that much sooner? If you can get to SR130 relatively quickly, what’s to keep you playing after that?
My husband made SR130 yesterday, it took him a year and a half to reach inheritor. He was sad that it was too easy. He said they hope they add more. He also said it now makes him strive to get 50’s with CSR.
Honestly, rank is less important to me over actually enjoying the game. As long as I enjoy what I play, I’ll be back an hour or two each day as long as the game keeps me invested. Hell, I spent over 600 hours in TF2 before they put in their crafting system, simply because it’s a good game. I think I’ll just lose interest in playing Halo 4 relatively quickly because I’ve been playing Halo since I was eleven.
Hey shoopdawoop71! I would agree with you, except for the fact that there is a competitive skill rank, it’s just not currently visible. In early 2013 (no clue on date, haven’t personally seen one yet), they will make it visible on your waypoint stats. It is going to be the familiar 1 - 50 like H2 and H3. So consider your jaunt to SR-130 as practice for the good times!
This is why I stopped playing. Technically 50 is max, and rest is extra end-game content. Rather play a game I can improve my level in. Would be better if they had a actual skill based rank…
> This is why I stopped playing. Technically 50 is max, and rest is extra end-game content. Rather play a game I can improve my level in. Would be better if they had a actual skill based rank…
Technically 130 is the max, and did you read the post above yours?
Hey I reached sr130 on Tuesday and let me tell you their is absolutely nothing 2 play for once you reach top rank apart from k/d and fun of the game also you only get an emblem and logo for all that hard work. The ranking system is poor and easy , I think reach took too long to rank up but this is ridiculously short everyone will be the same rank by jan/feb , they really need 2 add specialisations or change the system all together because their is absolutely nothing 2 play for ! Halo 3 would take a year too get the highest rank same with reach even cod takes longer than this !!! I actually think this is the fps which is the easiest and quickest to reach top rank ! Sort it out 343
