Stamps, trophies, and achievements.

[pbroy]

Hiku said:

pbroy said:

Twilord said:

Ok, could you expand on the why?

Achievements came first, are on all 360 games from the start, started the fad.

Trophies became after Achievements took off. Most of the launch games don't have them.

Something coming first does not mean it's better than the other though. The person who came up with it first certainly deserves much more credit than the one who copied it. But as for the system itself, what makes them better or worse is a completely different matter. The first TV set the standard for all the TV's today. But I still find my "42 LCD with color better than the "15 black and white thing from nearly a century ago.

Achievements does its job, but the Trophy system takes things one step further. You have Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum trophies, where the rarity of each trophy is assessed against all other PSN players.

Getting a Trophy that only 2% of players have gotten can make you feel like you're part of an exclusive group of players. This is what the Achievement system set out to do all those years ago; give you those bragging rights and instill that sense of accomplishment.

And the way that Bronze, Silver and Gold trophies are split up in difficulty makes it easier to compare them with other users. The Platinum trophy in itself is also something that stands out with Trophies compared to Achievements.
Moreover, on Xbox One they allow you to gain achievements from simply watching movies on apps, or using certain functions on the Xbox One, which kinda makes the system lose some of its purpose when people can gain points from things like that.

Do you think Sony would have came up with a universal trophy system if M$ didn't have it to begin with? Props to M$ for introducing a way to rank yourself and give games more replay value. Now it might not be better than Trophies, but a lot of people invested in Achievements before Trophies. So people do find more value in a system that they poured time into and are less reluctant to invest in a new point system, even if it may be better. Look at the iPhone, it introduced an app based mobile system. Android is way better IMO, but people want to stay with where they started. They might have invested in apps already and don't want that to go to waste.

Having an inferior system is not always better, it all depends on the value people attach to them. The 3DS is inferior to the PSV, but people buy that Shit up like hotcakes. Why? Because the games are fun. The games hold more value than trophies. As for me, I'd rather have trophies and play my PSV before playing my 3DS. I would rather torture myself with playing a bad game just to get e-penis points.