I have to agree with tempest on this one. I like my high rank, and as I'm mainly a sparrer and parkourist, having to work my way back up to 7th Dan would be a nightmare. Maybe an option to reset your progress might be nice if you want during the initial launch, but nothing more than that. Think about people like tripstone, with 50,000 qi. Do you really think they'd want to sit around and work their way back up to 50 thousand games?


Adding on to this, when the is launched, the beginner servers will be flooded with old and new players alike. It'd be like an invasion of alternate accounts, farming newbies for TC and a higher rank. It'd be terrible. Keeping old ranks allows for newbs to compete with other beginners and not have to worry as much about old veterans utterly kicking their asses.