: Also, if you lose games, will you lose your rank? Or is this going to be some
: carebear version of ranked gameplay where you always keep your highest
: level and can always improve on it because they want to hold your hand and
: never make you feel bad about yourself?

I lol'd ;D

I don't like going to Waypoint, because it's laggy and it doesn't work right. I always watched the Spartan Ops on YouTube (or here). I go there and get news daily, and that's enough. I don't really care about my stats. I don't work toward my Commendations, although I take a peek now and then when people are talking about it to see how I'm doing. I'm a competitive-casual, leaning toward competitive. Sometimes all competitive. I play to win using good sportsmanship. I liked Arena, and hardly any of my friends wanted to go in there so I played alone. Like REACH, Halo 4 seems to punish friends that go in together, weighting their possibility of being matched against another team, regardless of "mean rank", and the chances of getting stomped are higher if I go in with friends than if I go in alone.

All that being said, I don't see myself going to Waypoint to check my rank. If it's not in the game, I just won't see it unless someone posts me a link. This will affect how interested I am in the competitive playlist, just as punishing me for going into Team Throwdown for bringing in friends discourages me from going in there, even though I crave a competitive environment.

How do I feel about CSR? I am annoyed :/ If it's not "in game" it's not in the game.