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Trophies are an intricate system

you can get the different levels of trophies from least to greatest (bronze,silver,gold,platinum, respectively). Higher level trophies are worth more experience then the lower level ones. And when it comes to the Platinum trophy, you are required to obtain all others in order to get it. After all that is said and done the points from each trophy pours into an experience counter which then tallies your level. The higher your level the more "experienced" you feel about being a gamer. That creates this constant need to "train" and get more experience.

I am going to keep on "training until" i'm...........OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND!!!! TROPHIES!!!!!

lol check my PSN card in my sig. You will rarely find a level 4, let alone a LVL 5 like me haha ^^ I am SKIIIIILLLLLLEEEEED!

I hope sony makes certain aspects of home exclusive to those with a certain trophy levels. Like making a room with exclusive beta access that you can only enter if your trophy score is....level 5 of course. That would be sweet!



      

      

      

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Since when were either ever a means to judge skill by? There are ways to gain an accomplishment without relying upon your skill. For example, getting help from a skilled friend.



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I always thought of them as particular interesting goals. Nothing more really, it gives me something to aim for and ideas about how to play games differently. TBH I don't care about Silver/Gold trophies, gamerscore to me is a much cleaner system.



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Squilliam said:
I always thought of them as particular interesting goals. Nothing more really, it gives me something to aim for and ideas about how to play games differently. TBH I don't care about Silver/Gold trophies, gamerscore to me is a much cleaner system.

 

I think they're nice to motivate somebody to do certain things while they're playing through a game. For example, get x amount of kills with a certain weapon from Resistance 2.

Still, I agree as I don't see them as some greatly important feature that's going to make or break my sale.



i agree with bklynrecca 100%



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I agree with the OP because I have many friends that have high gamer scores but they got it through buying maany games. It's funny seeing 2 xbox fanboys going at it about gamer score, one talks about how he got tens of thousands of gamer score points and the other talks about how it took him X amount of games to reach that while he has half the points with half the games.



Using trophies and achievements as an "I'm better than you" metric is idiotic in the first place as are the people who subscribe to it.



cause everyone remembers that avatar game where you could get 1000 gamer points in fives minutes ..lol... all my friends have that game lol



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Words Of Wisdom said:
Using trophies and achievements as an "I'm better than you" metric is idiotic in the first place as are the people who subscribe to it.

I don't think of it as "I'm better than you" or vice versa.  My friends and I like to make bets where we see who can get the most trophies in an amount of time, and then the winner gets to pick the loser's avatar and comment for a week...I usually lose :l



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I don't think either is a particularly valid method of testing someone's ability as a gamer. The fact is, some games are hard, some games are easy, and this is not reflected in either system. Both systems reward buying many games over actually being good (trophies less so) and there are many achievements (and presumably trophies) that aren't for anything skill related