Why do gamers suck so bad?

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Ostro said:
If anything, this shows that achievements suck for the majority of players. And you can even tell that by looking at people's gamerscore. It was a nice plan to drag people into playing and spending more money but it only works for very few people.
They start a game, realize it's not their cup of tea and quit. That's it. Might even be rented or a copy from a friend so no money wasted.
I got out of the vault in Fallout 3 and quit because it didn't catch me so I'm left with the very first achievements you get for pressing A. Yes, I suck at it, virtually spoken, but actually I just don't like it and don't want to be good at it. There's hundreds of other games I'd rather play and I'm ok with a lame gamerscore in Fallout 3 when I have 200k+ in total.

well there are two types of achievement hunters.

Completionists and people who prefer a high score. Getting only one achievement in a game would be devastating for a completionist but no problem for a high scorer. I don't see how the achievement system as a whole would suck because of that.