Why are people complaining about leaderboards now? You just can’t please anybody. I swear people haven’t played games with leaderboards in them (or maybe haven’t been at the top before). Every leaderboard is exploited. Always. There’s no perfect way to do them, other than the mod team staying on top of them and banning exploiters/cheaters.
If you don’t like them, you can just ignore them. Dunno, maybe I’m just old school.
I agree. Leaderboards feel like a feeble attempt to provide a reason to play long hours for weeks or months on end.
The actual categories people would be competing in are extremely shallow and have never been true to the purpose of each game mode, to the point that it actively encourages throw wars, weak picking on the strong, stat-padding, griefing your team for personal accomplishment.
It’s like people are complaining about the end game being horribly vapid, but instead of making the end game more complex and interesting they just threw on another layer of something vapid.
Because you can’t just ignore them, they will change the way the game is played and that’s for worse in majority of cases. People want added depth not exacerbation of meaningless grind.
we only ask for consistency.
Content randomness does not mean quality
I will bet you 5m gold that OPRs, wars, and even arenas, will be basically the same after leaderboards go live. If you think this is gonna materially change the meta, or change how people like to play the game, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Leaderboards will have very minor impact to how people play the game. The vast majority of the population won’t even care about them. The only thing that will change how people play the game are combat balance updates.
We’ll see then. I can guarantee that people will play more stat-pad builds to compete for leaderboards. Can guarantee people will play even more ratty for K/D LBs. etc.
If points captured in OPR was a leaderboard, or Baronesses slain, you know actual objectives in the game mode, then I’d say the changes would be for the better. But most of the leaderboards completely miss the actual purposes of the game modes.
Leaderboards are something they could have released with absolutely no preview or “testing phases” or even an announcement until it was live. They used it to buy time.
Let’s just hope the “big surprise” they have in store has been worth it.
That’s because the skins are worthless.
Cause some people aren’t happy unless they are complaining about something.
This leaderboards are not competitive and have nothing to do with competition at all.
Everyone was asking for a ranked mmr system but not leaderboards that say nothing and can be easily exploited.
Or maybe, just maybe because their proposed implementation rewards and incentivizes bad player behavior and exploiting instead of measuring skillful play.
Even if they were perfect, they’d still find something to complain about. It’s a mindset
bro said “don’t add new content i don’t trust you to do it” 
Can yall be patient? It will only take half a year for them to start thinking about changes, and only another year for changes to be implemented into PTR
This is what makes me never want to come back to the forums. If you based your opinion on new world by the forums it seems like a shame not worth trying but it’s a great game.
People complained and complained wanting leader boards and now they are here and they complain about it.
I think it’s for the better they ship leaderboards as is. No one wants them, and they’re garbage.
The sooner they’re released, the sooner that team can work on implementing actual content.
No. If it were a great game, the population wouldn’t average a drop of over 1% per day.
No one has asked for leaderboards, just like no one asked for reactive potions, nor many of the other pointless things they’ve added.
It’s dying because players are locked on low pop extra servers and a lack of new content. People WILL return each time they throw content out
bugs, desync, lag, exploits, terrible pvp balance, OPR team balance. horrible territory control system. very low PVE cap. no story. and more also plays a huge factor.
Let me start to mute a bunch of trolls in the forum starting from the ones that complain like is their job.
Oh wow I tried to mute them and 2/4 they have profile hidden to prevent us to block them. LOL
paid trolls, worthless to even reply them