The pressure of the trophy

[Xero]

I have about 50 games, and no platinum trophy & proud.

I have Valkyria Chronicles and Disgaea 3 but wont play them till they get trophys though. I was like half or more through both of them and my HDD died, I can't find the incentive to play through either of them without an additional incentive (trophies).

So whilst I think to some extent trophies effect sales. I think most people nowadays would still buy a good game without them. It's not so much that people won't buy a game because it doesn't have trophies, it's more of the case that people will buy a bad game because it does have trophies (ala avatar).

Either way on the 360 it's not a big deal. Platinum is a little worse since the incentive to get every trophy means that you're going to be doing a lot of tedious, menial tasks in all your games, and to some extent by the end of this process this ruins the experience.

What really bugs me though, most of all. Is how developers are adding crap into there games just for trophies. Ever since Goldeneye every FPS on the market feels the need to place random 'intel' and other crappy items throughout there game. What the f is that about? It's an FPS... not a sandbox, or exploration focused game... so annoying.

I think you should get all trophies just by playing through on the hardest difficulty. So the trophies would only be like "complete level 1 on easy", "complete level 1 on normal" ... "hard", and so on.