343 basically killed Halo 4. For those who are complaining that ranking systems shouldn't be added. You're all idiots. Halo 3 had SOCIAL and RANKED playlists. They had both because people could play SOCIAL or RANKED playlists. This attracted two types of players. For me, it was better because if I had a friend over, we could play social and not worry about losing a rank or anything like that. We could play to have fun. But, when I was home by myself and wanted to play for a challenge, I would invite some of my friends who are actually good and then we would go into a variety of different playlists to play against people who were doing the exact same thing.
The matchmaking system right now is too boring for me. That's why there isn't as many people playing as there was in Halo 3 or Halo Reach. Halo 4 is an embarrassment to Halo's name. In all honesty.