you CAN play w/ friends in ranked XBL

With the recent release of information regarding the limitations of entering ranked matchmade games with a preassembled party in Gears of War, has Bungie decided how it' s matchmaking system will work in Halo 3 with the preset rules Microsoft has in place?


I think that whole thing was blown out of proportion and somewhat misinterpreted. Those are guidelines, not “preset rules” and Halo 3 will do everything it did before, and more in matchmaking. Gears of War is a different game and is approaching matchmaking differently.

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So you can still play ranked games with friends. Yay.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Okay. For $50/year you' d god damn better be able to do whatever you want to do.

I wasn' t aware people were saying you couldn' t. It doesn' t matter much to me though, I' m usually on when no one else is anyways. I should probably start gaming with you people. Come to think of it, I don' t think I' ve actually gamed with anyone here.

Good, I was ready to send those fudge packers a few death threats.

It is the best part about Halo 2 online, why would they get rid of it?

" What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."
~ Unknown ~

because douchebags all join the same party and one of them uses his account to cheat and boost their rank, then just the one gets banned. Although if they do it enough they also get banned.
If I was making an XBL game first off I would allow dedicated servers which would solve all problems, but if I was doing it the stupid way like they are I would put code in the game that straight up detects if they are being gay and automatically ban them from XBL. And not just the XBL account, the serial number of the xbox as well.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."