103340-achievements-are-meh-in-wildstar

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Hi,
 
I really feel this. I don't get excited when I get an achievement, and I don't ever check to see how to get achievements. I just ignore them. Why is that?
 
Well, there is no display of achievements on our forum persona. That's the thing with WoW. Getting achievements is important because it's displayed along side the character you're posting on. A real opportunity missed from Carbine to make Achievements actually rewarding. Also, with the WoW Armory, you could check your Achievements online, and those of anyone else too.
 
I don't know how to rectify this, given that we don't have an Armory, and a single forum persona for our whole account. I guess there should be other things in the game that require you to get achievements, or something. Or some rewards in game for when you've completed a certain amount.
 
I'd like to get your views on this. Do Achievements excite you? Do you bother with them? If so, why?
 
Thanks.	
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I don't care about achievements enough to pursue them actively most of the time, but I agree it's nice to put them on display if you happen to unlock them.
In Wildstar, I bother even less because the interface is... ...... I don't even know how to describe something so bad. I literally can't even find some of the achievements I'm 100% convinced to have finished.	
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			I'm not one to show off.  My achievement progress in Wildstar is just as important to me as it was back in City of Heroes when the achievement thing kicked in on MMOs.  Honestly I don't care if it shows on the forums.  Perhaps if there was a way to look at someone's achievements in game, that would be handy.  If you're going to turn it into pure in-your-face bragging, might as well go for a leader board.  It'd fit with the "hardcore" image of the game.  Don't have enough points to make the board?  Too bad, cupcake!	
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			only real reason ive seen to get achievements is for titles.completely dungeons on normal and vet gold will get you a title probably some of the cooler titles in game but thats pretty much the only reason to get the achievements. if they implimented a reward npc for achievements it might actually be worth getting them	
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			Another factor, I think, is this: while some achievements do give actual rewards (like titles for example), that fact is not extremely obvious.  The alert for achievements with rewards is not very different from the alert for other achievements.	
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I'm not one to show off.  My achievement progress in Wildstar is just as important to me as it was back in City of Heroes when the achievement thing kicked in on MMOs.  Honestly I don't care if it shows on the forums.  Perhaps if there was a way to look at someone's achievements in game, that would be handy.  If you're going to turn it into pure in-your-face bragging, might as well go for a leader board.  It'd fit with the "hardcore" image of the game.  Don't have enough points to make the board?  Too bad, cupcake!
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My comment is for the in-game achievements:
I feel like the achievements just..come and go. The UI for getting that pop up is bland and looks more like it gets in your way for a few seconds before disappearing. It needs more pop, pizazz, sparkles (or whatever is flashy, Tron effects?) cause it just NEEDS to let us know our achievement was worth it. Everytime I got an achievement in WoW it was so nice to get no matter how menial the task.	
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I differ in this in that I have no interest at all in seeing other peoples scores.
 
I like my own, it's something for me to do in game. Don't care at all what other people have done.
 
Much like people that show off their gear and rare mounts in various games .... never interested me. I don't pay attention to people in game. 
 
I only found out that was a thing when I saw it mentioned on forums. 
 
Having them appear on our forum persona is something i'm completely indifferent to. It's not something I want but if it appears ... ah well.	
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			Lots of them are broken, this makes me sad.	
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			The only game where I every cared about achievements was GW2 because you got stuff for them. Other than that, they're kind of cool but I can take them or leave them. I don't care what achievements others have and I won't go for them just to impress someone else.	
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			Really i like how it's i don't mind it but i hate it when everyone gets really toxic like wow people asking to do Dungeons with 20+ ilvl than what it drops and say link achieve for everything if anything that what i hated most 	
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Only achievement that does not feel like an achievement is killing Captain Zakara off in Crimson Isle due to *Draken traditions*
 
Good job! you killed someone who asked for death so they won't be dishonored!! Let us reward you with this achievement yay!!!! :lol:
 
 	
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			agreed	
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I don't care about achievements enough to pursue them actively most of the time, but I agree it's nice to put them on display if you happen to unlock them.
In Wildstar, I bother even less because the interface is... ...... I don't even know how to describe something so bad. I literally can't even find some of the achievements I'm 100% convinced to have finished.
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Well, there is no display of achievements on our forum persona. That's the thing with WoW. Getting achievements is important because it's displayed along side the character you're posting on. A real opportunity missed from Carbine to make Achievements actually rewarding. Also, with the WoW Armory, you could check your Achievements online, and those of anyone else too.
 
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 I was originally under the assumption (not sure where i heard it) but later on there would be like a vanity type thing tying in with the achievment system. So there would be a reward to go along with it. Who knows?
 
But the achievement system does seem a bit sterile and has the oporttunity to tie in with something beneficial	
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I'd like to get your views on this. Do Achievements excite you? Do you bother with them? If so, why?
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Remember in Kindergarten when we got gold star stickers on our papers? Yeah they're kind of like that.
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			I usually just ignore them. The only reward you can (apparently) get from them is titles, which I also don't put much value in since they're given out so freely.	
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			I typically enjoy chasing achievements in other MMO's, but I have to agree with the OP, I just don't seem to have that desire in Wildstar.  I attribute it to two reasons.  First, the UI, as others have said, is terrible.  Second, the bugs.  When I can get the same achievement three times during two attempts at a boss, there is something very very wrong.  It just makes me shake my head at yet another buggy feature and move on.	
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"Achievements are meh in wildstar" and in every other game.
 
Personallly I don't understand the need for everything to have them if they're just used for bragging rights. You already have loot for that :)
I like them when they're used to teach players mechanics. Valve did a pretty good job in TF2 with that. Achivements were tied to tricks you could do with various classes to incorporate those into your gameplay.	
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Yeah the feeling its great >.>	
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agreed
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"Achievements are meh in wildstar" and in every other game.
 
Personallly I don't understand the need for everything to have them if they're just used for bragging rights. You already have loot for that :)
I like them when they're used to teach players mechanics. Valve did a pretty good job in TF2 with that. Achivements were tied to tricks you could do with various classes to incorporate those into your gameplay.
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			I like the achievement interface style.  I like achievements.  However, you get an achievement for practically every single thing you do in WildStar lol.	
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			Achievements... oh so brilliant achievements - what a cheap, easy way for developers to add content.   Personally, if an achievement doesn't provide me a cool title or other fluff (mount, gear, costume, dye, etc) I have zero interest.  Earning points that mean nothing and are worth nothing have no value to me.	
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I don't necessarily think they are "meh," and need to be flaunted for my epeen but: the interface for them is terrible.  When I get a new cheevo, it pops up on the screen and in my recent achievements list, but it has no description and clicking on it doesn't take you to the subsection to actually see what the achievement counts for or how you even got it.
 
If the interface made sense and you could actually search for achievements and click on them to see what they were about,  then they might matter a bit more.	
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			Achievement point vendor.  Nuff said.  	
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Achievement point vendor.  Nuff said.  
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I wished ......
 	
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I don't mind not being rewarded for achievements, because I'm a completionist, so I'll do them anyway. I just like knowing I've done them, and I use them to guide me toward things I might've missed as I explored.
 
If they do decide to implement achievement rewards, I do not want Carbine to turn it into GW2's daily achievement system, where every stupid little thing is given an achievement (you breathed twice today! grats! +50pts), and where dailies can be abused to overinflate achievement scores.
 
GW2's achievement reward system is cool, but I would also prefer if costume pieces are awarded as a set, so you're not sitting there with awesome gloves and then you have to wait 3 months for the next piece and a total of a year or more for the full set.	
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I like getting achievements. "Achievement Granted!" Does make me smile.
 
But, I would like to earn things from my achievements. Titles, costume pieces, furniture, and other "cosmetic" things would work. It's one thing I would like to see added. 
 
Also a place where people could view your characters and achievements would be nice as well. 
 
I do believe that these are things that will come over time. Just like a barber and cosmetic pets. Too many people like this kind of thing for it to be left out forever.	
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			Achievements in Wildstar seem to have followed the industry trend and been mainly used as a way to tell when you've done all the content in an area. I don't mind this. I like finding and doing everything in a game. But it definitely doesn't feel the same as when Wow first added them back in the day. I do generally like how they're handled here though.	
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