Another idea for online play
I think that unranked games should count towards your record and your stats, but not towards your rank, if that makes sense.
Basically, have the ranked games be where you accumulate "'points" for various things, and then your number of points determines your rank. In unranked games you don't accumulate any points, so it doesn't add to your rank.
I don't care terribly about rank, but I would like to have the EA server keep track of my record and stats, even for unranked games.
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