Leaderboard Decay

#1 - Nov. 15, 2013, 7:57 p.m.
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I appreciate Anet’s attempts at fixing its leaderboards, however THIS time it has gone to far and is essentially worse. I have seen dozens of players with months of decay, win or lose games and go up thousands of ranks. One prime example is a player in Team Leaderboards who hadn’t played since August, lost a game to finish 8-5 overall, and made top page after going up 12,000 ranks. Clearly the system is flawed and simply moving some afk players will not be enough. The algorithm must be fixed in order for this to work, otherwise players will continue to go up thousands of ranks at a time after not playing for months. Thus surpassing players they have never beat, and attaining a rank they have never drawn near before.

#2 - Nov. 15, 2013, 8:07 p.m.
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We will be changing this. Expect news soon-ish. (I honestly don’t know exactly when.)

The recent change to decay was to make the current system a bit more appealing to a broader audience.