Guild Wars 2

I think any ranking system needs a couple things:

• Solid MMR, I think in the past you’ve done well with this. Hard to say how well your current iteration of this MMR is doing, since we’re all all getting matched up with total noobs. But we know you have it in you.

• Small tiered division. People/specially casual gamers, need small reachable goals to show off their progress. Currently seeing only our “rank points” does really give anyone too much incentive to play ranked a lot. Other than just grind a ton of games and by law of large numbers, get rank 1, eventually. Not very exciting…

I think it would be good to have, for your starter season, something like:

• Unranked (until you play 10 matches)
• Bronze (starting MMR->top 50%)
• Silver (top 50%->top 25%)
• Gold (top 25%->top 5%)
• Platinum (top 5%->1%)
• Masters (top 1% +)
  • This would be a good tier in which you could keep something like the current latter iteration, where people are set apart by the number of rank points they earn. Or something similar…

I think this is essentially the way to go.

Of course , the “Masters” and Platinum will probably complain that they cannot find anyone to play with, like they do now about waiting forever in queue when the matcher is set “strict” and enforces “brackets” so to speak.