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12/1/2012 2:24:12 AM
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Bungie please do me a favor while making your game.
If it is a mmofps, please do not make it have custom loadouts where you have to progress in rank to get a different or better gun, perk, etc.
This stuff is literally killing FPS gaming for me and I really am having a hard time finding a new FPS game that doesn't have these things in their multiplayer. I am having a hard time finding a FPS game that really stands out anymore.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos Is that a bad thing?[/quote]IMO, yes. [quote]Such utter nonsense. Selfish people will always find a way to put themselves above others. A rank is nothing more than a statistic which allows you to track your progress against the rest of the entire online population. If a ranking system truly is "toxic" and "poisons the community", then you might as well take out all the other statistics as well so there's no way to prove if a player is better than another without actually playing that person. But that still wouldn't solve your problem. Asshats are always going to find a way to be an asshat, and taking away a perfectly good feature from players who want to track their improvement against the population just to spite those asshats doesn't make a ton of sense. The only thing that truly bothered me about Halo 3 was that you didn't need to maintain your rank once you reached 50. I feel it really stagnated the system, it shouldn't be a drastic change to the point where "You don't play for a week? You start over!", but ranks should naturally degrade if you don't play.[/quote]There are still ways to keep statistics and things like that for those who want them. Like I mentioned something similar to the old ranked playlists without showing global rank anytime other than in said playlists would be great for those who wanted them. However I think that the simple way of Halo 3's ranks gave an easy way to give those selfish people a reason to be -blam!-s to those who wanted no part of it. Along with giving people who normally would not be -blam!-s a reason to who would not have done otherwise. No concrete way to prove any of that, but it's my feelings on it. Reach's community still had plenty of threads full of flames and trolls but no fights were started over one person having a more validated e-peen than the other. Fights were over stuff like armor lock and weapon balance without nearly as many wars being started over how "valid" one persons opinion was over another because of their rank. [Edited on 11.30.2012 11:18 PM PST]
