Originally Posted by TheFamilyGuy

For me, multiplayer should be a blast to play and have some sort of cool ranking system to make my effort feel more rewarding. (besides horde) Gears of War had fairly standard multiplayer modes and the ranking/matchmaking system was a complete mess. I guess they eventually fixed it, but I stopped caring by then.

The problem was they would start by matching you with a few other people of similar skill to make a team. Once you have your team, they try to find a team with similar skill. Problem was that this didn't happen often and matches would be very unbalanced. Halo 3 at least tried to make teams as even as possible.

Originally Posted by Jamie

Nothing worse than uneven teams. Halo 3 was one of the few online FPS's I played regularly, at the time. It did seem to have a good online system. If Bungie could do it... why couldn't Epic? I suppose that is just a futile question.

Originally Posted by TheFamilyGuy

Initially Epic made GOW have only 5 rankings. Whereas Halo 3 uses both the numeric level system and a rank system.

Eventually Epic put out a path that included more rankings, but it was not until months after GOW2 came out.

Originally Posted by Jamie

And lost players like you I would imagine, by being too late with their update to the online system.