You've missed the point to be honest dude. The ranking system is there as a way to work towards something, it doesn't matter if it matches people pretty close, which 9/10 i don't think it does. The point of this is that the ranking system gave you something to work for and if you want to play for fun they had the social playlist so you don't have to worry about competing against people u don't want to play. That was a huge pull in halo 2, the ranking system, and the reason why so many people played, right now there's no goal, nothing to work for that really means anything. The game play is slow and more like COD than halo and whilst I respect COD for what it is, it's a game for the mainstream players who don't want a challenge. Just realize where we're coming from and what we want for our part of Halo, it's a thing that we share together and all want to grow and right now it's not growing, it's declining.