Cool. Thanks for your update too (on the progress).

Stats pulled from http://psntrophyleaders.com

Division of platinum trophy rarities:

Common = greater than 50%

Uncommon = between 20% and 50%

Rare = between 10% and 20%

Super = between 5% and 10%

Ultra = less than 5%

Oh, ok. I thought it was the psn profile percentages but i did check and did not add up. I didn't know that site, but i did check it out, it's a lot less popular than psn profiles. I state this because if they're are that different in size, it would be arguable the choose of one over the other, the larger site don't give us better numbers? Just saying...

If you mean the platinum leaderboard, we have a little bug when calculating each rarity totals. It will be fixed soon.

I actually tried to collect data from psn profiles, but on that site you can't force updates automatically from an app, which is currently possible on PSNTL, hopefully for a long time (knock on wood). With PSNTL we always have fresh data without relying on manual updates.

After i write that post, i did remember that you could have a better api to fetch data from psntl than psn profiles. Psnp has a bigger data pond but if it's faster and smoother from psntl than that is fine by me. Was wondering the reasoning behind that option, but it makes sense now.

I'm currently 99,966 th in USA.

I need to slow down but I really want to see how far I can beat last year, kind of like a competition with myself too. Everyone should try and do better than they did before.

I'm sorry that you don't like the new system, however this means much less work for Arc, as the app does everything automatically.

I'm sure there are also pros and cons. Arc went to playstationtrophies.org to get the difficulty after the first user in our league got the plat. Then never checked back again to update the difficulty, which may vary significantly, especially compared to very early after launch, as the quickest hunters usually vote very low.

On the other hand, rarities will be updated monthly.

I'm sure there are also other explanations  for you examples other than popularity. GTA V plat might not be too challenging, but it requires a lot of time investment and has annoying af collection and online trophies. I'm a hunter myself and didn't even think about platting that.

MGS3 has also the shitty shoot the frogs trophy, another potential deal breaker.

And yeah, games on PS+ tend to get rarer trophies, on the opposite of remasters usually get more common because the buyers are mostly dedicated fans of the franchise.

Those tables look GREAT!!

I did this previously. Ratings were manually gathered from playstationtrophies.org and inputted into a database. When the platinum leaderboard was generated, it would automatically calculate everyones totals based on the information in the database. Even with the database it was still very time consuming to manually gather the difficulty rating for new games that had to be added to the database.

Now, there is the possibility of automatically gather the difficuly rating from playstationtrophies.org. However, I think this would be prone to a lot of errors since we would be gathering data from two different sites. If a game title is slightly different on one site vs the other (for whatever reason), it could mess things up.