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Subject: Farewell to Leaderboards
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It is a start by getting rid of the leaderboards...but I think the ranks should be completley removed. There are multiple tunnleing services that you can game on WITH NO RANKS...and they are virtually cheat free. Ranks = cheaters. Just get rid of the ranks. Matching up with random people is better anyway. That way you can occansionally own and occasionaly get owned, both being good experiences. I doubt I will update my live because it isnt worth 50 bucks. Playing for free is much more sastisfying.

  • 10.18.2005 3:06 PM PDT
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im a legit 35 and you dont here me complaining on how all the cheters are ruining my gaming experince. you need to be a informed gamer and know what to look for.
the leaderboards to me just told evey body that i was better than other gamers it showed how good you were now noone will know who u r

  • 10.18.2005 3:57 PM PDT
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ranks cant be deleted
it matches every one up for exampel a level 33 can get mached with a 5 in rumbel pit and the match would be tolty un fair

  • 10.18.2005 3:59 PM PDT
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Elegen

cant wait for team hardcore :)

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  • 10.18.2005 4:16 PM PDT
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hey cadentandrew13....
Ranks cant be removed? Ok. Have you ever seen a tunneling service where there are no ranks? Guess not.
Just because a suposed 33 goes up against a 5 doesn't mean it will be unfair. Ranks are as good as cheap talk. Many times lower ranked people totally demolish upper rank people. A higher rank doesnt necessarily show skill. Who cares if anyone "knows" who you are...your not playing to win anything.
I also think that it is funny that your gamertag is o stanby o. That really gives room for speculation on your ranks.

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  • 10.18.2005 5:16 PM PDT
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i sry i think it is -blam!- y first i was a legit 37 and i wish you would just remove all the hackers cause if u did i know i would have been on the leader boards

  • 10.18.2005 6:42 PM PDT
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i still think it is -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!-

  • 10.18.2005 6:43 PM PDT
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WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFF????
NO LEADERBOARDS????
THAT JUST SUX
I WAS ALMOST ON IT IN BIG TEAM

  • 10.18.2005 7:21 PM PDT
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wow drew is an idiot. The leaderboards getting erased is a great idea. People say da da da im on the leaderboards da da da my clan is a 40 da da da who cares about ranks you noobs. Rank is just a frickon number. Everyone that was on leaderboards cheated at least once.

  • 10.18.2005 9:07 PM PDT
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eh...i got my 8th in the world in big team before cheating exploded...i still think it's pathetic that bungie had to go to such an extreme to slow down cheating...the people who never got to the leaderboards dont understand, but o well bungie's trying it's best, and now hopefully i'll be able to find a damn game in big team without sitting for hours making sure im not getting bridged or modded

  • 10.18.2005 9:15 PM PDT
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yea its what those damn cheaters get i went to a 35 to a 30 from the other team brige me


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  • 10.18.2005 9:53 PM PDT
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It's not that I'm trying to insult your intelligence, but Bro you need to learn how to spell before posting comments or replies you spelled "Visable and Mabey" incorrectly, it's spelled "Visible and Maybe". To all of you out there that are eager to share your opinions about topics posted, I advise you to double check your spelling because remember the whole world will read what you just wrote. And that is very embarassing especially the people from the US.

But you know what, the blame is not on you it should be directed to our government, they would rather spend MILLIONS OR BILLIONS AND TRILLION DOLLARS of our tax money in other countries to help (PUPPET) ahem .. ahem.. rebuild their country , save them from floods, earthquakes, or any kind of human or mother nature caused disaster, but yet back home where it all counts or where it should be spent, we have homeless problems, national debt, tax increases, crime, hunger , health care system, education, employment and thousands of issues in which needs desperate govenment attention.

Bush always has a plan and all of us had no choice but to ride it out hoping for the best, and the only thing that I think the majority of us is just to be able to live comfortably and able to have enough money to provide our children and loved ones the necessities in life, but it's so sad that we follow the rules pay our dues or go to jail but yet no improvement cost of living is increasing rapidly but our wages are in a stagnant stage and not keeping up with the inflation .. "It's not fair".. Have you seen the gas prices???? it's freakin outrageous almost $3.00 to a gallon.. George Bush, How much is money is enough for you?.. you have enough money to last 30 dozen lifetimes so why aim for some more in expense of american lives in Iraq. "Drop your free world slogan, nobody helps the USA when we are hit with a disaster IDIOT" you send our soldiers to supposedly free these Iraq people , but they are the same ones who kill our soldiers Idiot!, I know Mr. Bush will respond with statements like "It's only a small group of insurgents" small is like 40 - 100 people, but idiot it's been how many years by now I think 40-100 should have been snuffed out and killed don't you think?. Oh yeah by the way what ever happened to Osama Bin Laden?.. As I recall he's the one who attacked america and was proud of it and he is in Afganistan I'm sure with all the technology you have he should have been found already don't you think.. Or is it you don't really care about him (KILLER OF 5,000 people) but yet you focus a very very small amount of resources to find him not like with sadddam you practically send the whole US people to find a man who was not even part of the initial purpose of the war!!! Remember it's Osama IDIOT!.. or you did not want to ruin your close tight relationship with the Bin Ladden family....

Just throwing my 2 cents and venting out my frustrations
sorry !!!
Ken
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  • 10.19.2005 2:20 AM PDT
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GODDDDDDDDDD JOBBBBBBBBBB BUNGIE........ITS A START!!!!!!!!



I HATE F***** CHEATERS

  • 10.19.2005 5:06 AM PDT
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WTF they have made liike a billion updates and they still cant stop them so now ur takin out the leaderboards??!! I Dont think this will help much.

  • 10.19.2005 7:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: SketchFactor
We don't have the resources to manually investigate and monitor every single player on the Leaderboards nor do we feel that is warranted.


That's highly understandable as there are thousands of gamers out their to monitor. Here is my suggestion. You should create a bungie police of active gamers in the community. Of course you should probably do a background check to make sure that the gamer applying for the position is not a cheater himself. The role of these officials are to just play games as they normally would and keep records of who cheat and/or curse etc... Now I know there is a feedback system and the halo 2 cheater online but how effective is it really? It's very common for people to leave negative feedback on a person just because they don't like them or a gamer telling his friends to leave good feedback on me cause he/she been naughty. In this proposed system, bungie will have the ability to avoid all the junk mail and the inaccurate feedbacks. They can just view the reports given to them by the 'police'. From there, bungie may then further investigate into the matter and enforce punishment where neccessary.

If you feel that this idea is feasible or has any possibility of becoming reality then email me at xxinfinite_eternityxx@yahoo.com.

If this idea has been propsed elsewhere then I appologize and ask that you disregard this message. Thanks for your time.

  • 10.19.2005 8:52 AM PDT
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It's sad to see those go, but I can understand why they're gone.

I can see how it might get rid of a few cheaters but over all it's not going to stop. Ive already been modded in the team hardcore list twice. I was a level one. Anyway, I lose about one out of every ten ranked games to modders.

Most of the rest of the time I lose them legitimately
hehehehehhe...

I'm still enjoying the game. I'm still getting the 360, I'm still going to push to find new ways to get rid of cheaters, I'm still going to turn in EVERY cheater I find, and I still give you guys (team bungie) credit for doing what you can without shutting everything down JUST to deal with cheaters.

I have suggestions about how it could be more efficient but then so does most everyone else. I hope this stops when the 360 comes out. Anyway, thanks for the hours of great play.

  • 10.19.2005 9:16 AM PDT
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Bungie. Just to let you guys know. Cheating will never stop just because leaderboards are gone. There was no point in taking leaderboards away. People cheat because they want to see a number or symbol next to their name, not because they are going to be the number one person on cheaterboards. It wouldn't have been that hard to fix the leaderboards. For instance, you should have just blacklisted and banned anyone who had a symbol (44-50). These people are obviously boosting and things like that. I have never seen a legit 44 or higher. I'm just writing this as a suggestion for halo 3 though I will probably blacklisted again for posting a comment. Which is really stupid if I might add.

  • 10.19.2005 10:49 AM PDT
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although i like what u have done i think that cheaters are still going to win this war even after this was released i was cheated modded and hacked so to any cheaters that r reading this man up { or woman up} and start going on pure skill insead of being a jerk to all the people playhin the game

  • 10.19.2005 11:03 AM PDT
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upyorz. This guy is right. Most of the time when I'm playing I hear little kids. WTF are the parents? Now when I look at spelling like that "Drew" guy, he is either A.) An Idiot or B.) A little kid. Seriously, if there is one thing that kills this game it's... low intelligence. A ten-year-old yelling and screaming is just as bad as the thirty-year-old racist who just wants to throw racial slurs cause he thinks he's tough when no one can see him. Now as for the rant on Bush. Hey, I don't like the guy, he probably is the thirty-year-old I mentioned before, but making this board political? No need. True, this land that I thought was greatest in the world when I still believed in Santa and Bunnies that deal eqqs, needs to get some better education system. On the other hand education is what you make of it. THAT kid needs the education, THAT kid needs some parents, and THAT kid needs to realize no one is going to give a damn about what number is next to his gamertag. Leaderboards, the topic at hand. Yay they're gone, hurray they are here, I just want to play some games, and celebrate easy triple kills with rockets and warthogs.

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  • 10.19.2005 11:39 AM PDT
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One last peice of my mind. I'm tired of kids yelling that bridging is cheating. Guess What? It's not. It's a form of connection that is recommened by xbox live. If you call them, they will even tell you how to do it. Somebody having host all the time isn't cheating unless they standbye retard. And you need two bridgers a lot of programs to boot people. People are soooo dumb.

  • 10.19.2005 11:46 AM PDT
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Is that what happens these days, when even the creators of the game have to give up because they cannot keep up with cheaters. I dont think its a good move.. leader boards ment nothing anyway, it just shows though that all bungies talk about stopping cheating really paid off. I hope all those kids who take halo 2 seriously; the ones who laughed at us when bungie made this new "system", i hope this is how you wanted it to end up. Its becuase of your complaining and -blam!-ing that this happend.

  • 10.19.2005 12:11 PM PDT
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the people who cheat are mostly those with free accounts only because they dont want to pay for something and have it get banned
im a 26 legit and i dont think id ever cheat plain in simple cause i dont feel like haveing my account THAT I PAID FOR banned

  • 10.19.2005 1:26 PM PDT
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Well good bye leadeerboards.

BUT U ALL just j3alouz of my l337 sk1llz in H@l0 2 ...1 am the sux// at Halo and ur all just n00bs...roflwtfbbqomg, haxxorz w00t

  • 10.19.2005 1:27 PM PDT
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In the end it ruins it for all not for the few and by the way CHEATERS NEVER PROSPER im satisfied that im a level 26 legit player and i laph at the people who brag about being a higher rank than me especially the onse who got there ranks by cheating cause if it came down to it and they played me straight no cheating involved ID OWN THEM

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Yeah rage your good buddy. "I'm a legit 26 and proud" and i'll own them. Yeah right. Whenever you wake up and want to play a legit 38 add me. ITEKI HBDR. And don't even try to say i'm a cheater b/c i'm blacklisted. My HB D R account has been blacklisted since 11/22/04 when i posted something very negative towards bungie and my ITekI HBDR account is a two month clan only gamertag. So add me and get beat and then shutup.

  • 10.19.2005 2:21 PM PDT