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Halo: Reach is the beginning of a new age for gaming.
It proves that developers can get away with punishing their players instead of fixing their game....and yet the fanboys will still sing praises to them.
-blam!- all of you fanboys!
Posted by: MisguidedDrake4
Posted by: MR E0S
I can come up with plenty of reasons why it's harder than you think to find friends to play with.
I don't know what internet you've been using... but 99% of the people I ever met in matchmaking from Halo 2 all the way to Reach, are not worth putting on my friends list.
1. No one wants to play with someone like you.
2. Given an average of 9 or so other people in a game, and 1000 games (which is not at all unreasonable), you would meet 10 decent people by your math. Enough to start a custom lobby? I think yes.
3. The reason customs are fun is that everyone is there to have a good time. It's like H3's social x2. The reason people aren't dicks in customs like they are in MM is because they went to so much effort getting into the game so they won't be a dick. If you added a browser, you would get all the MM randoms jumping from game to game betraying snipers, griefing, etc. Why should they care, the worst that could happen is they get kicked and join anoher game with their handy dandy server browser.
4. Stop being such a baby and wasting everyone else's time. I suggest you retire from this forum and the internet completely.
I only managed to rack up 600 games on Halo 3? What? I'm not a -blam!- loser like the rest of you. With you 20k plus numbers.
As for you number 3, you explained matchmaking as it currently is. Just a bunch of randoms -blam!- off with no worries, because all they have to do is hit that 'handy dandy' MM button and off they go into a fresh new game.
IF it was a server browser.. They start getting blacklisted. They start finding out they can't join anyone anymore.....
MM is what lets the greifers get away with it. Because it takes to long for their algorithms to kick in and punish. That wouldn't happen with a SB. Especially if the person in control of the Server is present and made aware of the trouble maker. The person might have figured out a way past the alogrithm but they are not going to fool a human thinking being.
It may seem like I'm contradicting myself here but.
SERVER BROWSERS = Personal
Matchmaking = Anonymous
I think you can put the 2+2 together on that analogy.
The way I see it, most of you could care less because you all damn well know you'd be getting blacklisted left and right. But if that's the case, then you need to consider why you are getting blacklisted. If it's because of skill level. WELL THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Don't -blam!- annihalate them. It's not that hard to pull your punches. I do it all the time and you know what, I don't suddenly feel like I did something wrong because of it. The world didn't end because I gave someone who's worse than me a fighting chance.
Get blacklisted because your too good and refuse to let up, or let up. It's your choice. You could always host your own.
And if it's a p2p server browser, that person who just blacklisted you from their host, is just that, just that one person. Doesn't mean there aren't a thousand other people trying to find players to fill their room.
[Edited on 09.06.2012 6:17 PM PDT]