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==Experience Ladders in Diablo III==
Achievements do exist along those lines, but they do not satisfy the desire of many players for a more robust and global ranking, since they can only be viewed one account at a time, rather than on some huge leaderboard. ==Ladders Coming in D3X?== Travis Day spoke about future plans for Diablo 3 ladders during a live stream in May 2013. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/travis-day-diablo-3-interview-live-stream] <blue>As far as the e-peen meter goes for showing off <font color="#FFFFFF">Will there ever be a higher level characterladder?</font><br>Travis Day: We’re discussing and looking into it, but I can’t promise that we’ll ever have one. <font color="#FFFFFF">Ladder seasons some day?</font><br>Travis: Everyone keeps asking about this! It’s something we think a proper achievement system is much better at thistalk about. There’s more variety, they’re more interesting and compelling for people to work towardIt’s possible someday. One important point of note the things I want is that our achievements are cross-characterfor Diablo 3 to remain playable for the long term, meaning we can give achievements for things even after we’re not working on new updates anymore. It’s like leveling D2 where there was hardly anyone working on it long term. Like, 5, 10years from now we’ll probably not be releasing new content an patches for Diablo 3.We’ll have moved on to working on Diablo4 or whatever. Ladders work very well for that. hell, 20 characters They keep the game fresh and reset the economy for people who want to 60opt into it. Certainly a bigger feat than a level 99That’s great, and but it does come with some baggage. But we can give tangible rewards for probably want to have that one day, but I don’t know when we’ll do it tooor how it’ll work.</blue>
==Season Wipes for the Ladders?==
::''will there be ladder resets for the rankings on PvP?—Scyberdragon
::A way for you to see your progress, compare against friends, and a way for us to (potentially) give some vanity rewards away.—Diablo
Obviously from those comments, the developers dondidn't think the emphasis of PvP will would be on overall rankings (which would show wins/losses?). But maintaining As the same overall ranking going forever though, through patches that re-balance skills or even through expansion packs that add new classes/items/skill runes/skills/etc doesn't seem viable. There are seasons and new ladders regularly for virtually every other online PvP system was overhauled and real life competition or sport. Why the devs think that Diablo III won't behave then delayed in similar fashion is a mystery. Even if the game itself weren't constantly changingD3C, it would just be boring to see the same names on top forever. Especially as some characters will find clever strategies and rack up huge win totals in the early days, before the high level competition is very stiff. Rankings with the top characters forever; characters that have long since been retired since their build and equipment is no longer viable... doesn't sound like s unknown how much funprogress was made on any sort of ladders or character scores.