Its time to wake up people, ranks can save this game.
Lets look at this from a buissnes standpoint so 343i will pay attention. then ill get to why we add ranks.
If its a year until halo 4 comes and the fanbase is disbanding now, how do you think this will translate into sales? If you could find a way to revive the population and put halo back in everyones mind we’ll have a sales translation.
Lets be honest with the way everyone views halo now, there will be a dent in sales.
Ranks are essential to keep people coming back to any game, lets face it everyones deep love for halo 3 and what made them return was 1-50. and the fact that you would play close games with each team scoring 40-50 points a game. In halo reach i rarely see both teams pass 40 points. Matches are lopsided 50-20 affairs. In halo 3 if you searched alone you would find decent teammates who wanted to win. In reach when i search alone i often match against parties of 4 who wreck me and my team, because my team simply doesnt care if they win. Because even if the other team 50-0’s us we still get the same amount of credits and we rank equally, so why win? Why try? were going to rank up all the same at the end of it. It leaves the noobs angry that they got wrecked and the pros bored because they keep wrecking all the noobs.
In halo 3 i always get matched with people at my level and it was a challenge to win. In reach i rarely get matched with people my level its either noobs i destroy or pros who destroy me. Ive been matched with countless superstars: Kampy, Royal 2, Nexy, Shibby, Phurion and others when i played with them they destroyed everyone, i remember playing kampy in an ffa i came in second with 11 points Kampy had 25. That NEVER happened in halo 3, ever. They where beyond me in rank. Halo takes skill it needs a ranking system to show it takes skill.
“There is a 2% chance halo will comeback without ranks, and a 99% chance it will with ranks” -Ninja.
I’ve also been noticing this happening: Team A consists of 4 stellar players, Team b however only has 3 stellar players and one casual player. (the casual player being the social slayer or team training player from previous two games) the 3 players on team b try hard to win but due to the casual players performance they lose. The 3 players then send an angry message to the casual guy, he gets discouraged and stops playing reach.
Even if only one playlist gets ranks ill be happy.