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10/18/2005 7:27:23 PM
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Farewell to Leaderboards
As we first mentioned two weeks ago, the Halo 2 Leaderboards are officially gone from Bungie.net. This is something we've discussed at length for quite a while and ultimately we feel that the Leaderboards are not worth keeping. Unfortunately the leaderboards ended up being a shrine for cheaters and hackers and for the most part did nothing but cause legitimate players pain.
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 is time and energy better spent on creating new playlists and making the core online experience better for everyone. Keep in mind that only a tiny percentage of actual players are affected by the Leaderboards - only 1,000 of several hundred thousand ever make the list. The amount of work required to cater to this small minority compared to the overall return for the community just isn't worth it.
We sincerely apologize to the few players out there who have played hundreds of legitimate games to work your way up the leaderboards. You will still keep your rankings and your stats as a token of your l337 skillz. Unfortunately the reality is that the vast majority of people who do appear on the leaderboards have only got there through some form of cheating.
Your rankings and player stats will remain unchanged and there will be no noticeable difference in Halo 2 other than the absence of the "Top 1000" lists on the Bungie.net stats page.
[Edited on 10/19/2005]
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This is excellent. To make things perfect now we just need to remove the individual rankings (i.e. those used for matchmaking) for different game types. I know that this is there to make the game look bigger, more expansive and more challenging but unfortunately it spoils the game where the rankings are supposed to be there to match up similarly skilled players. It's not much fun in Head to Head when e.g. you're a 8 and you end up playing a run of people that are something like 32, 27, 25, 22, 29 etc. There's no way that I can afford the time to get my rankings up to this type of level so it detracts from my enjoyment of the game and, in the majority of the cases these higher ranked players won't get as much enjoyment - even though you do get the odd abusive and smart alec ones :-) Let's just get rid of the individual rankings per game type as they don't really work and, to keep the interest in some sort of rankings how about if we have the win / loss and associated %'s for the bragging rights etc. This way the matchmaking will work MUCH better and you can still make the different game types a challenge.
