User blog:Exiton/Achievments

Achievments seem to be everywhere now, every games has them. it was cute the first time I saw it as a feature but not it's just annoying. It seeems like every new game now has to have them, why is that? I would much rather the company take all the time they put into thinking up and inplimenting achievments and stead add real content. I guess people like it.

I see this blog has achievments and i wonder if they are helpfull or detrimental. How many people make unessary changes just to grab an aciement for editing a page. At the same time how many people have profiles on the wiki that normaly would not because they get 10 points for makeing it. I guess it can help drive changes faster if people have slightly more insentive and the people making unessessary changes don't really hurt anythign other than falsly inflating the achievment numbers.

I must admit that i was intrigued and searched for somthing to edit today so i could get my first badge. It was not a major edit but i added a usefull point. So it did give me a minor push to do somehitng now rather than later. i probalby still would have contributed but it would have been more passive, when i noticed a mistake or soemthing missing rather than activly looking to do something. An of course finishing this poast gets me a new badge so i guess the system works.