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

[Kasz216]

ocnkng said:

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.

 

Or you could just see what percentage of achivements the person has completed on certain games.

It's not like harder trophies are going to be gotten when easier ones aren;t.