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Why Achievements Have Ruined Gaming (Alternative Magazine Online)

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With the Xbox 360 came achievements, and soon after the PS3's release came trophies. Both pitched as tools to extend the game, but now are just a tool with which to flex your virtual ego. Alternative Magazine Online never really cared much for our gamerscore, we'd play a game, complete it, move on. Then they became almost as important as the game itself...
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Yeah, because you're forced to get points.

And the guy only has a gamerscore of 15k going by that article, so basically it's just he feels inferior to people that have a higher one and then goes on to whine about it?

And personally, especially in the example of Left 4 Dead 2, they only extend the life of a game. Which to me isn't a bad thing.
They make you go and do other things that you normally wouldn't, or do something else that is fun, or even just to push you a bit further.

Maybe this guy should just play games then and ignore the points rather than pay any attention and feel he needs to whine.
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