I have been playing halo since CE i first played it when it came out on demo, best game i had ever played, unfortunalty i never played online till halo reach, so the ranking system we have now is the only one i have ever known, I don't know who is good any more either, with reach i could just tell who was good and who wasn't, but with halo 4 i can't do that anymore, so now i play through a game trying to figure out who the best is just to figure out that I am the best, because the rest are just nerds who play all day and get exp from playing games and not even winning, but they get to a high rank because they play all day