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Posted by: TheRepoMan108
Posted by: Xx Mr Bill xX
Actually, MLG is already on the path towards something like this. This and this are definitely relevant.
Posted by: TheRepoMan108
Logic is your friend. Most people do not play competitively MLG has few dedicated players compared to Social Slayer. They took it out cause no one used it. They could put it in but no one would use it. Hey I could be wrong but I dont think that many people would use Clan list. Leaderboards is a good idea but you can just go to halocharts.
I thought one of the biggest reasons why leaderboards were taken out was because there was so much cheating because people wanted to be at the top of the boards. I refuse to go to Halocharts, the forumla they use for calculating someone's position on the leaderboard is flawed. I'm not saying an MLG player should be at the top, but there are thousands of better overall players than Rippin, and many better LW player than the guy who can't keep his 50 in the playlist. He's far better than the vast majority of Halo players, but there are many, many better people out there.
To the people responding and saying that competitive gaming is small... are you out of your minds? MLG is not the all encompassing competitive gaming entity for Halo. Are level 50 games of Team Slayer not competitive? I'm sure most people who play in ranked play to win the game, and that is competitive play in my eyes. Plenty of people out there play Halo competitively and don't play MLG.
We are talking about Bungie who makes games people want to play. Yes ranked playlists are competitive but he is talking MLG which has its few dedicated people. I have never seen more than 9,000 people playing MLG at one time. Why put something in a game no one used in Halo 2 and Bungie took out of Halo 3. As for leaderboards encouraging cheating doesnt rank do the same thing?
Unless I'm misunderstanding the OP, he is only saying implement leaderboards for clans and have a tie in with MLG/Gamebattles.
Posted by: Çäspër
So my proposal is simple: Add Clan support with leaderboards and possibly MLG/GameBattles support or tie-in to Halo: Reach.
He's not even saying make it about MLG. He said a possible tie-in to MLG or Gamebattles. This isn't specifically about MLG gameplay, its about competitive gameplay which is far more encompassing than only MLG. I'm assuming he made a reference to MLG because they are the largest competitive Halo league out there.
To be fair to MLG, its gametypes are more deeply rooted in custom games than in MM than any other gametype in Halo. You might ask why, but MLG has been around since 2002. Since 2002, up until 2008, MLG variants could only be played in custom games, not in MM. I myself have played thousands of MLG custom games and prefer customs to MLG MM. But I doubt even if all the players playing MLG customs went into MM it would make a huge difference. MLG still consistently has more population than every social playlist aside from social slayer (or did as up until ODST came out according to the MM stats thread in Optimatch, I haven't checked it since ODST came out) and Squad Battle.
I think your a bit misinformed as to why Bungie took out leaderboards. They took out the leaderboards in 2005, not in Halo 3. Secondly, the leaderboards weren't interactive things that people could use in some way. Everyone was given a place on the board and the top few people were shown to everyone. They were just boards that people would look at that were basically right on the front page. I'm almost completely sure that Bungie took them out to prevent people from cheating to get to the top of leaderboards.
Perhaps you should ask Bungie about rank encouraging the same thing, because that was their reasoning. I'm not arguing that rank doesn't encourage cheating, I never brought that up or said anything about rank, don't make this about something its not.
[Edited on 09.28.2009 9:28 AM PDT]