Guild Wars 2

I don’t seem to understand the reluctance to show us our stats/MMR. Does Anet really believe showing MMR will get people flamed, that aren’t already prone to being flamed? If someone is not as good as the other people on the team it becomes apparent right away. Hiding this fact until the game starts just fuels the rage fire even more. Showing the MMR would help players prepare for what they are up against and give them a chance to form a plan/mentally prepare before the game. Its hard to help someone while you are 2v1ing because they are running in circles.

Showing stats will also help digest post match results. Right now its hard to tell why you lost, so everyone immediately blames their teammates or" Pre-made other team". Maybe the other team was just better or maybe you just sucked and brought everyone down? Stats will show that and make it easier to make sense of wins or losses. If people can understand why they lost its easier to handle and they are more likely to keep playing and RAGE LESSSSSS.

Stats also give players something to work towards, if you are 1500 MMR and the top player is 1750 you can kind of gauge yourself and have something to work towards that keeps you coming back, unlike rewards tracks or this current leader board situation(if you can’t play 30 games a day too bad?). Whether you like it or not, what keeps people playing PVP is the ability to say hey look how good I am and here is the proof, im an MMR of 1750 and average 15 kills a game ect. ITS A GAME WHERE YOU VIRTUALLY KILL EACHOTHER, STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT FAMILY FRIENDLY lol.

Even if Anet is adamantly against the showing MMR/stats in game, what is the harm of making a separate MMR leaderboard along side the current point leaderboard. If people can’t see how they stack up to others skill wise, there is really no point to playing and the player base will be gone so fast. I think everyone agrees this current leaderboard isn’t a very good representation of skill.

I would also love to see additional stats such as: Average Kills a round, average points defended/assaulted, average stomps and so on. I think it would add some additional content that would give pvp players something more that just tracking wins/loses/MMR.

SadKeanu.3491:

Does Anet really believe showing MMR will get people flamed, that aren’t already prone to being flamed?

it will happen. it has happened in league of legends, back in season 1-2, when there was a website that sniffed packets from the lol servers to grab everyones elo. people would use champ select and the loading screen to go have a look at who they were playing with and against. flaming happened once the game started, and the weakest link became first blood. people refuse to accept their own inadequacy and prefer to blame scapegoats, and showing mmr is one of the biggest and easiest scapegoats there is.

I do agree with you, players do blame scapegoats because admitting you suck is hard and MMR is a visable target. I just think it will happen regardless, I know it happens now and isnt going away anytime soon. It doesn’t have to show it every game, but at least some sort of leaderboard to show progress or at least visable to only you.

SadKeanu.3491:

I do agree with you, players do blame scapegoats because admitting you suck is hard and MMR is a visable target.

This is exactly what happened back when Rank was still shown. And the ragers were usually the ones doing least for the team.