| John2290 said: DISCLAIMER: I'm not judging anyone here, I've been hunting them plats on games I love since I went for that plat on The Witcher 3 and I love them, this thread is a product of a long session browsing PSN profiles and stats on there and I hope it to be a conversation starter on, at what point, does trophy hunting go to far. Read bold to avoid babble. Now I get perfectionism and I even understand, from experience, the OCD motivated mind when gaming (Hey, that's what Ubisoft make there money off of) but even so, there is a point, that if met and your OCD drives you that deep you need to rest up on that gaming because I can just imagine what torture that would be. I fell Ill (A sudden progression of an existing Illness), before Xmas and gaming has been great to keep my mind off, of pain, more so hunting plats as a motivator which got me playing games after the story finished or the fun was waning and I've seen the ridiculous ammount of time and effort that goes into plating games. I would reckon I was playing 8-10ish hour a day and plat'ed 6 or 7 games plus loads more games up into the 70% completetion, targeting golds and rare trophies and now that I've just been put on meds for the pain and just playing games for the game again I'm horrified by the thought of grabbing trophies on a daily bases or viewing gaming through the lens of OCD as I would have had in my mid teens. I've been playing from my bed since december I've recently been able to get about more and my Living room and gaming setup is back to normal, I still don't have much of anything going on or a life outside of the house but I can do shit around the house and manage some hobbies... Anyway, my point is this, which is followed by a question. Trophy hunting is time consuming, very very time consuming and must make gaming hell for people who are compulsed through perfectionism and on top of that your wallet aint going to like you much and its extremely solitary, like ...mind numbingly solitary. Now for my question, How the fuck does one balance a daily life, say 9 to 5, stereotypical bachelor life and maintain gaming time to platinum a game once a week or two games for some on PSN profiles...or thre, four, five. And then lets say you are a typical family man/woman with work and a strong social life to uphold...Fuck, how does that work? Is it just me? Where is there the time? Lets face it, Devs use them to sell games, such as telltale, how many games do you think they sold because of trophies? And then theres the devs that use online trophies to keep people online or even sell microtransactions. They pray on people of a certain nature, who have a drive for perfectionism. |
I hate to be THAT guy, but Xbox Gamerscore came first. Sony just did trophies to compete. I prefer the trophy system more, but I don't see what the harm is. It's like going for high scores in arcade games. Just an extra challenge.
Not too mention Insomniac and Naughty Dog had been doing it on the PS2. They just called them Skill Points.
