the more i think of it the invisible ranks are not that bad i guess, i did like the bragging rights tho :/ i think it helped alot of the worse players get alot better because they wanted to be like the higher level people ya know? i was the first 50 pretty much where i lived at the time and everybody knew i was the only 50 in H3 at my school when the game came out sooooo long ago. i had tons and tons of people trying to get to be like me, trying to get that 50. these people would just come talk to me in and outside the game to trying to get better trying to figure out what it took to be a 50. i myself just me influenced about 500 people in my high schoool to play halo 3 and try to be a 50 a general. it really motivates people alot more then what alot of us think. i know for sure that taking that visible lvl 50 out will take a very important part out of halo and a even more important part out of the people playing the game as well.