Guild Wars 2

Currently there are no incentives to play ranked games over unranked games. They give the same amount of rank points, same amount of reward track progress and progress the champion of class titles.
Even when the ladder starts only a miniscule amount of people will be rewarded for playing ranked games: "The top 250 players on the ladder at the end of the season will receive a mini llama. The top 20 players on the ladder will also receive a piece of Glorious Hero’s armor, and the top 5 will receive two pieces of Glorious Hero’s armor. "
Mini Llama isnt of use if you have more than one of them, since they are untradeable and reaching top 20 is an unrealistic goal for most people.

So there need to be more reward incentives to keep the queues short:
- special finishers
- reward tracks which only progress in ranked games, these could give the discontinued old pvp armors and weapons such as tribal armor and destroyer scythe
- new achievements with titles

Ladder will be the first step. Leagues the next step.

We can only hope for a good implementation.

butch.8136:

Ladder will be the first step. Leagues the next step.

We can only hope for a good implementation.

Looking at how many PvP updates we get, that will be 2017 if at all :p

Ladder 16th dec :p

Leagues, next feature pack? ^^

butch.8136:

Ladder 16th dec :p

Leagues, next feature pack? ^^

you are being optimistic