- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
To corny22385...man your name says it all, corny. thats what that post was...
you stated...DO NOT REMOVE ALL RANKS:
Though it maybe true that cheaters will greatly decrease if ranks are removed, it is also true that players in general will greatly decrease. It is not a valid argument to make ranks invisible, because ranks are one of the things that made Halo 2 so popular in the first place.
thats totall bull crap. like i said before, have you ever played on a tunneling service where there are no ranks? virtaully cheat free and the playing community is growing everyday. thats why most of these guys cheat, for that lilttle number by their names. also with the tunneling services they have dedicated arenas for modders and hackers which kinda makes cheating pointless. it IS a VERY valid argument(not to make ranks invisible but to remove them totally). if the ranks where to be removed the player number wouldnt decrease, it would increase significantly due to the fact that gamers that quit due to cheating may come back now that the cheaters are thinning out. who cares about a number by your name, your playin to have fun and just game...not for some number. and by no means is ranks a reason for halo 2's success...have you ever heard of a game called halo ce? thats the reason for halo 2's success.
i personally think it is to late to fix the cheating problem for halo 2 though since halo 3 is so close to coming out, once it is released the same thing will happen with halo 2 as did halo ce, most people will go to halo 3. i believe that this is all preparation for halo 3, to make it much better than its two predecessors (especially the online part of it). i really hope bungie learns and there are no ranks at all for halo 3.