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The reason is because of the world today. Look at little league for example. We have to give everyone a trophy, not just the winners, but the losers too. Of course it all comes back to peoples self esteem. Thats why H4 wont have a 1-50 skill based ranking system. It might hurt someones feelings if I have a 50 and they have a 27. You guys wanted an answer, and there it is. We’ve all become a nation of wusses. Where even in video games you have to protect peoples self esteem and cater to the less skilled.
This is one reason, and a common trend (the everones a winner attitude as well as instant gratification, cheap psychological tricks to keep players playing and gimmicks) in modern game development.
But there is also truth to Frankies reasoning of everyone boosting, cheating, etc… for their ranks, which makes the whole thing meaningless anyway.
The best solution, however is not to get rid of 1-50 all together, but to have it either visible only to yourself, or completely invisible (and not like H3 social or Reach because that did NOT match players of equal skill together).
No problem being a loser. No problem with being a lower level. While I can see where your coming from I assume there were more realistic reasons for 343 doing what they have done.
So say one out of every 15 guys boosted for their 50, yeah that’s a ton of people but why punish all of the good respectable people who got their 50 legitly (Btw i never have gotten a 50) just because some noobs wanted to boost their account? Another thing, for all of us respectable players, why the -Yoink!- do we care if someone boosted their account or not? I sure as heck don’t care, i wouldn’t really care if every single person playing Halo 4 boosted their account honestly, it would make it easier for me to beat the fake 50’s.