Guild Wars 2

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=22584.0

The WvW is amazing but it feels as if there’s no point other than “mindless fun”. Which is great, but when you pit servers against servers based on rankings, players want to see those rankings. It’s not gonna change the nature of the game you are playing, and the scope (fun), but it creates a meta-layer which is missing at the moment. They need to patch in visible rankings so servers can begin taking more seriously the war aspect of the game. also, they need to find a way to make the WvW more accessible, as the queues are so long and unpredictable that this portion of the game is at the moment more like a lucky break for most of us than something we can invest on.

Same is true for sPvP. I am sure you noticed Nebu that while you bring your stuff in WvW, sPvP follows the logic of an fps or an rts if you want: everyone has the same resources to choose from and to play with, so the reasons to play are just the same reasons that you have in those kind of games. Fun, and braggin rights. Here what the game is missing is the bragging rights layer. Again, this is one of the most important parts of the whole GW experience, so rest assured it will be patched in soon, but right now it is totally absent. sPvP needs even more seriously stuff like rankings and tournaments, but all that stuff is not currently in the game and all people can do is practice and grind for vanity items. They also need to put in actual Guild Wars as soon as possible.

So, in short, while I consider GW2 an incredibly amazing game, they have to move out of the pre-season zone they put themselves into, and start rolling out the competitive and meta aspects of the game as soon as pssible. Mind, there’s no monthly fee here or subscription to cancel, so they are not really in a rush to make sure you won’t get bored, but it really feels that once you are done with exploring and some random borderlands fun, you (and everyone else) will have to wait for the first real meta-content patch, which is blatantly missing.

The match making system is loosely based on the physics professor by the name of Elo. It was initially used for a chess rating system and is currently employed world wide in a host of different fields.
Enough with the introductions. In chess (yes i am a chess tournament director), you are provisional rated for your first 15-20 games. This marks a more volatile movement in rating to get the player where he needs to go. It is like a broad stroke of a painter before he moves onto finer detail. After that, the system moves into its stride with it awarding points based on the difficulty of your opponents.

We are in the provisional rating system in GW2. I assume they will keep a constant tally on the site and apps as soon as we move out of the provisional games.

I don’t think they will ever have WvW stats and summaries. It will just promote people to leave and transfer to top servers, which will overload those, longer queue times, etc etc. As far as missing content goes, make a different race character the story is so much more understanding from other perspectives, and how can you be bored with a significant grind for gear through karma and honor badges? Or compete in sPVP tournies.