Never cared about these.

I hunted because it was a means of completing all content there is. However, after 66ish Platinums i've kind of changed my approach with them. I'm really sick and tired of grabbing every collectible and playing a game 3 times. I would much rather do something else, and Platinum the games I really want.

Online trophies, collectible trophies, and multiple playthrough trophies are the fucking worst.

Years ago when I first gamed on the PS3 and then 360, I was really into cheevo hunting. For a time I saw it as a sort of achievement to compare to my friends and see if we could one up one another. Time went on and I eventually found it more or less irksome to hunt down certain cheevos, I wasn't feeling that sense of accomplishment anymore and in the end at the back of my head I knew that there would be millions of gamers out there who would also gain the same cheevos as I would.

Fast forward to today and I honestly can't ssay I give a damn about cheevos entirely, I just play the games I want to play and Steam pops up now and then to let me know I earned an achievement and got a card as a result, none of that even matters or registers to me anymore, I just keep focused on the game at hand as that matters much more than being told I was a good boy for jumping through a hoop a set number of times or finding X amount of goodies. Today I see game cheevos as nothing more than another way to get you to grind the game, to get back on that hamster wheel, some enjoy that and some won't. I admit I once enjoyed that aspect but now I can't seem to find a shred of care for it.

I agree.

I don't compete at all. Theres no point. I only got one platinum, though i do understand the appeal to 100% a game you love. But, i only do it if theres no retarded achievements. Basically, if i'm having to grind, i'm not gonna do it.
For example, tears to tiara 2, so far has something wich i think is the perfect trophy syste,. You get awarded one per stage you complete. Complete the whole game, and i assume you get the platinum. Every game should be like that.

You are using an extreme example to make a point.
Let's counter that with another extreme example:
http://www.trueachievements.com/n21022/leap-frog-interview-with-irishwarrior022.htm

See? You can manage all that if you are good at managing your life and if you know what is fun to you. Everybody has another definition of fun.
It doesn't matter if you only play a couch multiplayer game all the time because you and your friends love it, or go for virtual stats or even pro gaming earning money with what you play.
You can also rent most games or get gifts which results in _some_ (extreme examples ftw) players around the globe "owning" thousands of games according to their profiles without hurting their wallet.
I'll stop now.

I'm only responding to the thread title.

Yes trophies are a time sink for obsessive completionists. For everyone else they are something to strive for for a game you really like and want to complete, but more or less ignore for a sub-excellent game.

No they are not used to sell crappy games. Only the truly obsessive must play every game crazy person would buy crappy games to amass more trophies and a butt ton of platinums. The number of these people is too low to materially increase a game's sales.

Trophies and achievements are required by Sony and Microsoft, so it's not just take makers pouring them on to get players to play the games more.
Plus there is a big difference between games, some games you need to beat multiple times and max out levels in online, others don't require you to beat the game at all or even touch the online.

I think you're looking way into the extreme when it comes to trophy hunting. Even looking at the top 1000 on psn profiles one you get past the top 50 it's really not that bad. Hell I'm now in the top 10,000 and I've averaged a little over two trophies a day since my first trophy beck in 08 and I don't play games exclusively on PlayStation, or Hebrew it be my only form of entertainment. So it's not too hard to find a balance.
I find it enjoyable, plus it's a nice way for me to track games I've played over the years and it adds a extra layer of enjoyment for myself in my gaming, I don't think it's right to judge them based on people with OCD or addictive personalities, while there are people out there with problems, the solutions tests in them getting treatment not the rest of us losing something because of it.
I think you might have burnt yourself out with how much you played the last few months and you feel discouraged because you compare your months if progress to the years of trophies others have achieved, don't look at it that way.

If I'm on 50-60% after beating the game and it doesn't seem ridiculous I'll go for the platinum.

I get addicted to that crap on mobile f2p games because they typically give you also a small amount of the rarest in-game currency, difficult to earn just advancing in the proper gaming parts. On fully paid games on PC my OCD prefers to be satisfied by completing the main quest and as many sidequests as possible and by maxing out my fav skills, spells, weapons and armours. In Morrowind I recursively pump up intelligence and some other potions too and every now and then I use one of them and become Superman, er, Supermage, but I rarely save what I achieved that way, it becomes too easy, or I just use fast levitate and fast run to travel fast or to scout unknown new areas, while I really used powerful potions to defeat very few incredibly tough bosses, like Firemoth's Lich and three very tough sidequest bosses in Tribunal (at Firemoth I used 100% reflect, nothing else could have worked, while against Gedna Relvel in Tribunal I used both reflect and offensive spells and potions to fortify some attacks, to speed up the process that was long, dangerous and boring anyway).

C) Hack.

You can get all ps3 trophy if you hack, and it was (still is ?) the same for psvita.