Guild Wars 2

From wikipedia: “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system”

‘The Glicko rating system and Glicko-2 rating system are methods for assessing a player’s strength in games of skill, such as chess and go. It was invented by Mark Glickman as an improvement of the Elo rating system, and initially intended for the primary use as a chess rating system.’

I now ask, why does gw2 have this? It has been shown from numerous threads that using the glicko system just does not work for this game. It was meant for games like chess. Now, I admit, I may not know the details of the glicko rating system and how it works, but I know that it doesn’t work!

To think that you actually have to even tinker and manipulate the ratings to get a competitive match PROVES to me that it doesn’t work. This has been more evident with world linking. Also, manipulating glicko ratings messes up the servers and matchmaking as was shown with SBI and CD.

WvW will never prosper with the glicko rating system.

I agree with you that glicko is not a good fit.

You might be interested in the ranking system described here :

http://coveragewars2.com

This was brought up and pointed out at release, I believe there has even been Dev’s confirm that it was not the best of choices for scoring. They don’t want to get rid of it now because of the work required to find and insert a proper scoring system for this type of match making. It’s easier for them to adjust and tweak Glicko, basically when asked not to long ago they said.

“Since alternate matchmaking systems require some of the same peoples’ time as the scoring improvements we’re currently working on, Glicko alternatives or adjustments may be options in future polls once the scoring improvement work is done”.