Steve Polge a expliqué sur la mailing list des admins de serveurs UT2004 qu’Epic envisage d’intégrer un système de classement des joueurs dans Unreal Tournament 2007. Mais ce n’est pas tout ! Ces statistiques seront utilisées afin d’aider les joueurs à trouver des serveurs correspondant à leur niveau, un peu comme le matchmaking de Microsoft :
We want to be able to use player ranking to help players find servers which match their skill level, to avoid the issues with wide skill disparities you often see in UT2K4 pub servers. However, it’s easy to game the rankings if you control the server.
What alternatives to EA’s approach can you suggest? We know our admin community is important to the success of UT, and we don’t want to do anything to shut any of you out. In any case, it’s quite possible to game the rankings even without controlling the server, if the players band together.
