Update: No WvW Rating Reset

In case you recall, we were recently told that there was going to be a WvW ratings reset at the outset of the month. If you're wondering what happened to that, ArenaNet has decided to not implement the reset. Here's an update from Habib Loew:

Update 2/7/2013:
We've been keeping a somewhat close watch on this week's matchups &, despite our concerns regarding the recent population shifts, it appears that a few of the games are quite competitive. At the same time we've been evaluating a few feasible modifications to the math we use to calculate ratings. After examining quite a few new methodologies for weighting the outcomes of matches we have discovered that our existing formulas already do pretty much what we want them to do. Absolutely none of the candidates that we attempted yielded better results.

In light of the robust community response to the idea of a WvW ratings reset, the outcomes of our ratings formula investigations, and our data on the present matchups we have decided not to reset the WvW ratings at this time. All existing WvW ratings will be preserved plus the rating calculation methodology will remain unchanged. Any existing mismatches need to be corrected by the technique in fairly brief order. Now that there's less volatility in the gw2 gold player base for each world we expect the quality of matches to enhance more speedily. This is each because the rating process is operating in a less unpredictable environment and for the reason that more stable teams tend to generate better outcomes.

Thank you all for your feedback on this matter, & for your patience while we explored the various alternatives. The community response was a key element in our decision making process.

May not agree more. Doing nothing, in this case, does vastly more than doing something. The ranking program was only a challenge when overall alliances of top tier guilds abandoned their servers for lower tier play *cough*kaineng*cough*warmachine*cough*teamlegacy*cough*

At any rate the irreparable harm done to the WvW community will at least be in a position to scar over now that whole sever populations aren't playing sever hopscotch anymore.

However anyhow, doing nothing is everything I wanted them to do with sever listings .

Uh, my server was genuinely counting on the retiering. We have ben playing the same two servers for the past 3-4 months. And its gotten ridiculously bitter. One side will sabatoge us or the 3rd group even against their own interest just for the sake of ruining things.

Extra resources:

http://www.braggingit.com/index.php?do=/blog/98078/link-your-darkfall-and-unholy-wars-accounts-for-discount-beta-access/

http://www.marsa-net.com/matrouhbook/index.php?do=/blog/26115/why-i-039-m-not-going-to-play-df-uw-after-loving-the-original/

http://dosclic.org/article.php?id=57922