Yeah like wtf? People are gonna bail no matter what.
yeah, except psychologically, it's absolutly not the same.
rank is vague, almost at the beggining, when you absolutly don't know what they're related with.
rank *1 ? ok that's certainly a good player.
on the contrary everyone "knows" lvls.
and when you're being trashed by lvl 400, against you can't do shit, even if he's just letting his cat playing blindfolded, because of bonus and equipement, while you are lvl 10, it's clearly not the same effect on game feeling...
you just think, "what's that fucking stupid matchmaking brah ??" o_O
and if it happens again and again you just walk away, saying ok, this game is not for me, thank you =)
moreover except to praise egos inspiring fear/respect vs noobiz, seeing lvl is useless.
(and that's not the point here, but i'd rather play a with rank 6, usefull in the mission, doing his best, than with one of these useless and too frequent rank*1 who does nothing except killing grunts and just thumb up when someone dies.)
