Guild Wars 2

I am not really doomsaying, just trying to raise my concern as to my interpretation of what the leaderboards will be. The current format of top 100 is not helpful for anyone, relativistic rankings (based on other players) will not give us the information that we as players would find attractive. The real thing we wish to see is our rating (Glicko) so we can accurately see if we are improving or tilting, basically to keep track of where we are. A leaderboard is nice to try and make the remaining community more competetive in this environment, but allowing all players to view “where they stand” (not meaning relative) and track their progress would bring more players than a digit from 1 to 100 ever can.

Taym.8326:

I am not really doomsaying, just trying to raise my concern as to my interpretation of what the leaderboards will be. The current format of top 100 is not helpful for anyone, relativistic rankings (based on other players) will not give us the information that we as players would find attractive. The real thing we wish to see is our rating (Glicko) so we can accurately see if we are improving or tilting, basically to keep track of where we are. A leaderboard is nice to try and make the remaining community more competetive in this environment, but allowing all players to view “where they stand” (not meaning relative) and track their progress would bring more players than a digit from 1 to 100 ever can.

Yup. Everyone knows this. Anet were quoted as saying they dont think people to see their “number” as it means nothing (lol) but then I heard rumours that they changed their mind on this and will show the number when it settles down.

If they are waiting for the numbers to be settled to show our number = fine
If it is a design choice to not show us our number as Jon peters said = fail