If you're not on the ladder, and you're serious about them, knowing where you are relative to the masses is pointless. People want to be upset about that, that's cool. Whatever it might be it's something the Diablo Franchise has not done in the past probably for reasons I outlined. Either to simply know, to compare with friends, or flex their epeen. What people are asking for is a curiosity satisfied. On top of that, it gives you a personalized list for your friends and your clan. It shows you the top 1k per class, in addition to each group section of 2/3/4 man groups. The current iteration shows more information. The Diablo 2 ladder showed the top 1k of all, and for each individual class. It has always been this way in Diablo all the way back to Diablo 2. The ladder and the leaderboard are for the best of the best. What am I saying is that they'e asking to be catered to. I don't lack understanding on how other people derive enjoyment in video games. It gives progression that can actually be compared to others, rather than progression that can only be compared against the top 1k. There's very little reason for Blizzard to NOT include stats further down, even a % range like I said. Knowing I did something X seconds faster, or got 3 rift tiers higher, doesn't mean anything if you ARE that far down the league.

But by what metric do I measure how I am doing if I don't know what rank I am, or how much I am increasing it, or if it's decreasing over time?Įven knowing a sort of % range (eg, maybe I'm stuck in the top 30%, and then after one productive day I find I'm in the top 20%) gives a more meaningful progression. You're right, knowing who is around me or what their times are do not matter, nobody not in the top 1k can be considered 'competitive'.

Unless I was in the top 1% (not gonna happen), I have no metric by which to compare myself to people nearby on the ladder.

Let's say a million people decide to play the ladder season. So instead of caring about the top minute percent that I know I'm not one of, I can care about where I am at the time. Last updated at 14:00:17 UTC Weekly Help Desk RAGE Loot Thread Trade Threadīecause some of us can't play the required amount of time to get into the top 1000.

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