- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
On my original account, my ranks where all 25-30ish, and I was downright disgusted at the percentage of people I met in matchmaking being scumbags. It was verry rare to run into anyone capable of having any kind of conversation that wasn't about the current game, and full of words like "own" and "nub". I got the feeling that most of the people where entirely socialy inept, and for the most part just of poor character (mind you I said most people; there was still the occasional fully functional human being). Well, anyway, I made a new profile so I could play Crackdown from the beginning again, without erasing my old data (why the hell they don't have annother way to do that built in the game is beyond me), and when I started the new account it gave me a month of xbl gold for free. I was playing around on halo 2 yesterday and today, and after a few games I realised something. People where, for the most part, tolerable and even freindly. I had a couple of rational, respectfull, and intelligent conversations. I added something like 8 people to my freinds list in a couple of hours, and finding that many nice people at the higher rank would have taken probobaly 10-20 hours. I have so far only seen 2 or 3 people that where what I would describe "rank whores" or exeptionaly bad sports. I would strongly encourage anyone dissapointed with the online community at the higher ranks to use the free month of xbl gold to play around with the low ranked folk.