Achievements!?

I do love a bit of traditionalist bile in the morning.

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Treble wrote:

Soon the game is about getting every single achievement, not about playing through the game and enjoying yourself.

Huh? So when you play the game for your reasons, it's for fun, but when others play it it's because they're "compelled"? You're not compelled, a slave to this "enjoying yourself" thing? Come off it. People do what they do because they like doing it. If you don't like "achievement hunting", then don't do it. If others do, what's the problem with that, any more than there's a problem with some people playing PvP when I don't enjoy it?

Achievements are arbitrary, pointless goals. Do people not see that games are, and always have been, made of arbitrary pointless goals? Achievements are no new, horrible corruption. They're the same old thing that you all do yourselves every time you play any game. Do task, get reward.

If the achievments are incredibly difficult, i wouldn't mind it.

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Xendran wrote:

If the achievments are incredibly difficult, i wouldn't mind it.

And also some very well hidden.

If the achievements would be simply 'kill hillock, kill brutus, complete all difficulties' then I'd be fine, those things are on your way anyway, but if it would be like 'clear fetid pools on every difficulty' that would already piss people off, not everyone likes those side maps.

But yeah, if it's only a compliment on your progress through the main game, it's not much of a bother. Though I would love to see my death history a lot more then achievements. If I die in HC, I instantly delete that character and reroll, so I don't even know how far I have gotten, ever. I wand my own personal graveyard!

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AmberGhost wrote:

If the achievements would be simply 'kill hillock, kill brutus, complete all difficulties' then I'd be fine, those things are on your way anyway, but if it would be like 'clear fetid pools on every difficulty' that would already piss people off, not everyone likes those side maps.

Well, those people could, you know, choose not to do them. You don't have to get everything in every game. Do what's fun for you.

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AmberGhost wrote:

If the achievements would be simply 'kill hillock, kill brutus, complete all difficulties' then I'd be fine, those things are on your way anyway, but if it would be like 'clear fetid pools on every difficulty' that would already piss people off, not everyone likes those side maps.

But yeah, if it's only a compliment on your progress through the main game, it's not much of a bother. Though I would love to see my death history a lot more then achievements. If I die in HC, I instantly delete that character and reroll, so I don't even know how far I have gotten, ever. I wand my own personal graveyard!

The hell? People get pissed off BECAUSE of easy achievments. Nobody gives a fuck if you killed hillock on normal. People are more lkely to care if you did something ridiculously hard.

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Xendran wrote:

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AmberGhost wrote:

If the achievements would be simply 'kill hillock, kill brutus, complete all difficulties' then I'd be fine, those things are on your way anyway, but if it would be like 'clear fetid pools on every difficulty' that would already piss people off, not everyone likes those side maps.

But yeah, if it's only a compliment on your progress through the main game, it's not much of a bother. Though I would love to see my death history a lot more then achievements. If I die in HC, I instantly delete that character and reroll, so I don't even know how far I have gotten, ever. I wand my own personal graveyard!

The hell? People get pissed off BECAUSE of easy achievments. Nobody gives a fuck if you killed hillock on normal. People are more lkely to care if you did something ridiculously hard.

QFT.

Achievements should either not exist or be unbelievably difficult to achieve. Basic achievements are a nuisance.

I wouldn't mind achievments such as "Clear a level 65 or higher map with both Stasis and Blood Magic affixes".

Things ridiculous like that.

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Treble wrote:

I find achievements a cancer to the industry. People get them for bragging rights and something compels them to get every achievement. Soon the game is about getting every single achievement, not about playing through the game and enjoying yourself.

-It doesn't remotely make sense that achievements could cause damage to the industry.
-Its a relatively simple thing that can potentially add hundreds of hours of playtime.
-This game is already filled with ways for people to get bragging rights, and its only going to increase.
-Adding them would in no way change the focus of the game. You could completely ignore them and still play through the game and enjoy yourself. Others would have the option of taking advantage of additional gameplay.