Games shouldn't put RANKED into games

[Outbreaker XXXX]

All night ive been trying to get my infestation and deathmatch achievements and everytime im the last one standing or winning the fucking host quits and ends the match BOLLOCKS to Ranked i say its no wonder people boost this shit

so i clearly goes...
Ranked legit = no chance buddy stressful online experience
Boost Ranked = friendly fun

I'm 100% booster so what im proud I don't have an excuse other than RANKED matches are completely wasted time

[CunningFox]

Well, most people I've spoken to only play player matches because they have already glitched the xp achievements. They also don't care about other achievements either.

[zeds]

Or ranked should be allowed to play with friends so like those like infestion modes would be alot more fun and you know like the op said your friends wont quit on you.

[CunningFox]

Or ranked should be allowed to play with friends so like those like infestion modes would be alot more fun and you know like the op said your friends wont quit on you.

But that promotes boosting even more and defeats the point of leaderboard rankings.
Most developers don't want their leaderboard system to be messed up like that.

[bLaKgRaVy]

What's the point of having leaderboards anyway? No matter what game it is, it's going to be tainted by glitchers or boosters or hackers or whatever (Modern Warfare 2 case in point). Developers put so much time into the leaderboards and more than half the gamers could care less about them. And half of those remaining are hacks or glitches exploiting some bug, so what's the real point? I could care less what my K/D ratio or accuracy rating is. I play games online (not so much lately with all the campers and glitchers) to have fun with my friends, not to try to make it into the top 100 in kills in a particular game, cause in 5 minutes, I'll be knocked off of it. It's about how well the game plays online and what features it has, not about putting a fake number on a board. Don't see the point...

[Outbreaker XXXX]

Fuck leaderboards i just want the achievements :p

Game developers should realise that gamers prefer to play with friends and not random joes if they get rid of leaderboards and Ranked then i think gaming would be better, Or take a page from COD4MW and have no online achievements unless they are co-op have a completely seperate system for multiplayer games it works for MW2 & MW why not other games hmmm?

Don't say stuff like achievements would be pointless cos as a gamer i find it fun to go for them and it really annoys me when i pick up a game and then it has a stupid ranked type achievement which you can only get via luck in which it'll end up gettin boosted anyway so tbh ranked IS pointless

[Outbreaker XXXX]

But that promotes boosting even more and defeats the point of leaderboard rankings.
Most developers don't want their leaderboard system to be messed up like that.

And from that you can look at Gears 2 leaderboards and l4d's then tell me the leaderboard system works

I frankly 4 1 don't give a shit about leaderboards

[NukeDukem]

i just disapprove of (competitive) mp achievements in general.. keep your leaderboards and ranked matches but stop making me play or boost mp for achievements!

[zeds]

But that promotes boosting even more and defeats the point of leaderboard rankings.
Most developers don't want their leaderboard system to be messed up like that.

I suppose it does, but boosting is here to stay by the looks of it, one way or another! And personally letting you play ranked games with friends is a lot more fun, maybe they should give you a smaller percentage of xp if it really bothers developers that much.

Once again like the OP mentioned i was thinking on the same lines, i have played gears 1 and 2 for a very long time with friends and a decent amount on public matches and i am at level 57. Now if i added up the time i played private and some of the experience from those games i think i would be a lot closer to 100 and that would then give me more motivation for finishing it off. Instead the game sits on the shelf gathering dust. I think this would be a lot simpler and more fun in general for everyone, instead of forcing people to work with random people, and come on most games have there irritating turds, so who would want to play in those games?

[retroboy]

Multiplayer achievements can be a pain in the arse especially if you do not pick the game up near launch.

Look at Prey, completely dead online you have to organise a match to get achievements.

FEAR mp achievements and Perfect Dark Zero are just ridiculous too. I'm all for having them but make them more obtainable at least.

[CunningFox]

And from that you can look at Gears 2 leaderboards and l4d's then tell me the leaderboard system works

I frankly 4 1 don't give a shit about leaderboards

That's fair enough but think of how many people would complain if they were no leaderboards at all!

[Midnight Malice]

this is one of the lightest games with mp achievements, I think they should have left out the infestation one myself, but the rest are fine. Reasonable XP achievement, even without the glitch, 10 killstreak is cool, as well as win 10 ranked. If they had host migration then infestation wouldn't be so bad.

[retroboy]

No the Infestation one has to be in.

If all achievements were obtainable in a few short rounds of MP than there would be no challenge. Unfair or not there has to be some harder/luckier ones.

It's not even as bad as people make it out to be. Playing infestation ranked I must have done it about 4-5 times now.

[Midnight Malice]

it isn't that hard, but a game that forces you to play a certian gametype to get luck based achievements is BS... I bought AvP not AvM, there are too many ranked modes with Alien vs Marine, Infestation and Domination not to include Predator... I think an Infestation mode with 1 Predator thrown in that kills indescrimantly would make it fuckin badass, and include the predator hunt rules as well... a marine or alien that kills the predator gets to become the predator. The match is over when all marines are aliens and the aliens kill the predator. how hard is it to come up with these ideas for better gamemodes... I just did in like 5 seconds. BTW that gamemode is patent pending rebellion :)