Achivements can move up to 40,000 copies of a game.

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Kasz216 said:

Kantor said:

I don't understand when people say this. They are the same thing! The only difference is that one is a number and one is an icon. The actual "achievement", ie the thing you do to get that number/icon, is the same. That should really be the most important part, the feeling of knowing you have done it, rather than the visual feedback given.

Eh I disagree.  Numbers > Icons.

 

I have a score of 40,000 thousand.  You have a score of 20,000 I'm totally twice as better.

 

I've got a Square.  You have a triangle.  I have no clue how much better I am then you are.

I have 15 tropies, you have 8.

 

But they're all different kinds so I have to employ some sort of strange olympic grading scale to know how much better I am then you at something.

 

Not that i actually care about achivements.  But that's why points > Icons.

And I disagree.

Trophies are not really icons. They are a much detailed grading system then just numbers can ever be.

For example I look at someone's trophy card and I get a better idea of what sort of gamer they are.

If I see someone having double the number of trophies then someone else but only half the number of platinum trophies, I can say that the former is a better completionist while the latter plays a larger number of games.

Then again there is the level system that I can attain by gaining enough trophies.

The trophy system is able convey more information by breaking itself upto convey quantity as well as quality.

The achievements just look like a mess of points.