: But really, this is why you don't split ranked/social so harshly - one of
: them is going to die first, and it's probably going to be the ranked one.

What would you suggest then?

DEEP NNN:
: Ironic, I think. Bungie built something for those interested in earning and
: showing their skill and it was shunned. I wonder if Arena was an
: experiment to prove/disprove the realities of human nature in gaming? It
: was very sparsely populated through most of it's more active life. If it
: wasn't an experiment then it was an embarrassing failure in my opinion.

I think it was largely because of the changes (tweaking loadouts, tweaking maps, adding and removing playlists that were under the Arena banner, your "Top 3" is actually your top 4 now*), the fact it was only ever Slayer, the fact the ranks reset, and the fact a lot of players that cared about the display of skill, the seriousness of the playlist, or both didn't like bloom (at least from what I've heard and read, it wasn't well-liked in those groups).

* I wish 343i would go through and fix the text in... well, a lot of things. It's hard to imagine it would be that hard to do.