Years ago when I first gamed on the PS3 and then 360, I was really into cheevo hunting. For a time I saw it as a sort of achievement to compare to my friends and see if we could one up one another. Time went on and I eventually found it more or less irksome to hunt down certain cheevos, I wasn't feeling that sense of accomplishment anymore and in the end at the back of my head I knew that there would be millions of gamers out there who would also gain the same cheevos as I would.
Fast forward to today and I honestly can't ssay I give a damn about cheevos entirely, I just play the games I want to play and Steam pops up now and then to let me know I earned an achievement and got a card as a result, none of that even matters or registers to me anymore, I just keep focused on the game at hand as that matters much more than being told I was a good boy for jumping through a hoop a set number of times or finding X amount of goodies. Today I see game cheevos as nothing more than another way to get you to grind the game, to get back on that hamster wheel, some enjoy that and some won't. I admit I once enjoyed that aspect but now I can't seem to find a shred of care for it.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
