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Achievements, the pros and cons

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CarbonWyre ?? Senior Member
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04-05-2013

Achievements
Pros

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  • Achievements can encourage team play
  • Achievements can be based on hard things to accomplish that don't require specific styles of play
  • Achievements reward players for advancing in a non game changing way
  • Achievements can act as a sort of milestone in a players career (example below)
Cons
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  • Can be a sort of "You haven't achieved X so I don't want to play with you" moment
  • Porely designed achievements can lead to player to player conflict
  • Having achievements like "Earn a Pentakill" would be disadvantaged towards people who main support
Examples
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----GOOD----
  • "Earn level 10/20/30"
  • "Finish a game without losing a turret"
  • "Finish a game without a death"
  • "Finish the game with at least 6 kills"
  • "Finish the game with at least 15 assists"
----BAD---
  • "Earn a Pentakill" (Bad because it's biased and would cause more rage for stealing one of the kills)
  • "Win with 0 deaths on the team" (This would cause someone who dies to be the bane of the other players)

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Gorsgan ?? Senior Member
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04-06-2013

The reason achievements wouldn't work is because people would work for achievements and not winning the game

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TheShadeGamer ?? Senior Member
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04-06-2013

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Originally Posted by Gorsgan View Post
The reason achievements wouldn't work is because people would work for achievements and not winning the game
And the reason you don't work is you work for winning the game, not working to have fun playing it.

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RiotKiddington RiotKiddington's Avatar ?? Platform Engineer
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04-07-2013

Achievements is not a bad idea, we had that idea long time ago, too.
I will keep this idea in mind.

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Climowitz ?? Junior Member
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04-07-2013

/Sign to Achievements

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Wishsong214 ?? Senior Member
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04-07-2013

You also want to be careful of "goofy" achievements, which is what a lot of games have. Something like "dance for 10 minutes total" might work, since it could be accumulated over time, but "dance for 3 minutes straight" might cause a waste of game time and hurt the game.

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