This video will give you the opinion of MY experience with the CSR ranking system. I know that others have said that the ranking system has been absolutely useless, but I disagree. I've matched much better players now that it's out and although I do have a gripe about how easy it is to rank up in the 'individual playlists', I'm happy with the team playlist leveling rate. Halo 4 seems to be turning around lately. Maybe, just maybe, the developers are listening to Bravo? We'll see in the weeks and months to come.
So that it doesn't scare away tons of casuals by making them feel bad about themselves by forcing it to be in their face constantly.
It would be nice to at least have it visible the "Service Record" area of the Spartan Hub start menu thing, though. Viewable if you wanted to see it, but not "forced" into anyones faces.
That's their excuse. But they are also saying that they might reset them after a while. Why do both? What they are pretty much doing is making it **** purposely to avoid selling of accounts, but just enough for hardcore fans to do something with.
I don't really care about bragging rights that much, and it's too hard to look up currently. I might take a peek at it occasionally. I second the wish for it to be visible in the Service Record area.