I'd rather them get rid of countdown in comp.

It should really only be a 50% loss at most, and always an increase of double the loss rate. Anything more and its just malicious intent. This studio is THICK with malicious intent. I mean, they seem like a collection of the worst kind of people, to me. Like Meta or Google, except those businesses are actually successful, unfortunately. Maybe that seems harsh, but that's what I see, take it with a grain of salt. Its just an opinion, like anything else here. Very seldom do I see a studio go through the level of effort that Bungie does though, just to screw the players over; and its something that's just an average Tuesday there.

The ranked point system is idiotic… Sorry Bungie… At any competitive levels of sport disciplines… all participants (including fans) must know exactly what’s at stake if their team wins or loses. Why that is important??? Because in order to maintain the integrity of the competition… perception of fairness cannot be violated (that includes players cheating, referees fixing the game, and also a confounding scoring system on wins and loses). And that’s exactly what Bungie gave us… a confounding scoring system. Possible solutions: (a) Static scoring system (W +100pts) (L -50pts). This concept is NOT dependent on any other factors. Simply +100 on wins, and -50 on loses, with a quitter penalty of -200pts (instead of suspending players for 30 minutes). (b) Static scoring system + Extra Factors (the above idea + extra 25 points for performing very well, and possibly even + extra 50 points if you performed exceptionally well, even on loses… so if you get -50 for losing but you performed well or exceptionally well you also get +25 or +50). Scoring system on very close tied games (with the final round tied or overtime) would also have to be considered… as those loses are emotionally exhausting… So losing 200 points on these games (as it is presently) feels like a gut punch… Perhaps such loses (instead of -50) would be scored -25 to soften the blow… etc. Option A is the easiest to implement. Probably, this would be welcomed by most players without much criticism (including myself). Option B is more complicated, this would have to be well analyzed first for all possible outcomes and all possible factors. Still achievable though.