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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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I have to say you are now thinking bungie. This is all cheats have to show forth the effert to even cheat is get that #1 spot or w/e. Hackers, Moders, Stand bying, 2ndary stand bying poeple are really sad indivials. They spead money to get cards, modems, and search on the internet for mods which helps them in cheating. The only lives they have is that leaderboard and you took away....YESSSS!!! thank F'n GOD. Why can't you poeple play the F'n game as it would ment to be! Cheating is boring. Everyone here that has posted has cheated on a single player game like Max Payne, Duke Numkem, Unreal ext ext ext. And it gets boring and itsn't any fun playing the game all i do with the cheats is just stand there and yell at the AI saying HAHAHA YOU CAN"T KILL ME I HAVE "GOD MODE" ON!!! donesn't have that feeling of the game if you can't die....at all. So why cheat to get that high rank? So you can be speacil? hmm all i can say is....Nerds? OMG i have a halo for my rank...(moder)....ok OMG WOW YOU F'N MAGICAL ALL YOU HAVE TO DO FOR THAT IS RUN REALLY FAST AND GET THE FLAG FROM THE OTHER BASE IN UNDER 2 SECS!!! so i have to say moders do not have any motive for cheating. Only on thing is left is the ranking system. All cheats has now is thier rank. Ok why would you want to know you have a "halo" for your rank so what? Only people i play with are my friends. If you want to have proff of your L33T skillz do it on the battle field and don't say hey i'm lvl 50 its all over, cuse you just might be a modder which your rank really should be a lvl 10 which is weak! Haha wow i love ranking about cheats just make me really pissed off. I love halo 2 for xbox live and macthmaking but moders had me only going into unrank games and custom. only team slayer to get my "averge 25" but i just show up on the battle field and don't give a damn about there ranks. ONly thing they indcate to me is i have to play smarter and more aware cuse they are 30s or even 40s.
