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There were ranked modes way before centralized multiplayer services, Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, all had ladders (as they were called at the
by kroltan 6y ago
There were ranked modes way before centralized multiplayer services, Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, all had ladders (as they were called at the time since it was a literal list of people sorted by stats - they could easily just present the Elo score or whatever instead), both official or community-hosted.
- ashtonkem 6y agoBattlefield 2142 actually had the concept of ranked and unranked servers. Unranked servers allowed for more modification, but didn’t affect your global rank for obvious reasons, leading to sillier game play. It was a fairly effective system, IMHO.
- http-teapot 6y agoAmerica’s Army also had this back in early 2000s