- domomd367
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Man, I miss dem Halo 3 days :'(
Posted by: Verachi
I liked the 1-50 ranking system. The only problem that I can see with a 1-50 ranking system is cheaters *looks at halo 2*. Cheaters ruin it, but what can you do? Cheaters will always exist. I feel like Halo 3 had a good balance you could get a rank that took skill to get (1-50) or you could get a military rank for just breathing so it made most people happy because it cattered to both types of people. Halo 2 wasn't as nice. On Halo Reach I never know if I'm playing somebody good or bad. I get people with cool looking symbols but most of the time they aren't very good. And the match up system isn't very good. I started playing 4 weeks ago and I usually get matched up with kids that are way above my rank.
Precisely, the only real problem with 1-50 was cheaters. The whole "It doesn't motivate because you get to a 50 and that's it" is also a terrible argument against it, because for one, the vast, vast majority of people couldn't get a 50 - and two, the percentage of population who got a 50 in every permanent playlist....well, I'd be surprised if it was over 0.1%.
It was just a better system. The fact that it was integrated into your overall rank also made it a real driving force to play.
Arena just isn't motivating enough. I can play a few games and get gold basically without trying, and to get onyx I'd simply have to do the same thing but play more. For anyone to find out that I got Onyx, they have to delve into my service record, as it doesn't contribute to anything.
"Yawn" is the best word to sum up Arena when comparing in to the 1-50 system.
And don't even get me started on how instead of developing proper methods to stop cheaters, they just dumped the system and made a new one purely because of them....