I'm ok with collectibles as long as they also give you something else beyond the trophy. For example, I liked the dead drops in inFamous but not the DAMNED blast shards!

I love them though some can be annoying.

I really don't care about them at all unless they unlock something. Even then, its somewhat annoying to be forced to do some crazy shit to gain a cool item or upgrade.

All in all, I couldn't care less and see it as pure nonsense and I wish I could just turn them off to be honest.

I like them until they get ridiculous, I used to play a game called Mafia Wars on facebook that had trophies that were basically impossible to ever obtain without cheating...thats one of the reasons I stopped playing it.

I'm neither here nor there really, they are alright, adding to the game but doesn't change me playing of the game. They just appear randomly when I play games and I never really take them in. If they gave me extras in the game like Uncharted then cool but they don't.

Although like some say the excessive ones are a joke. Ones that just require you to just keep playing, are silly too.

Blast shards were better than many, you could at least see their location on radar, so it isn't as annoying as things like the feathers from AC I

I like most achievements, that includes online ones.If you're gona complain abouta game having online achievements might as well not buy it.

You could say it was lots of companies ex: nintendo with collecting stuff in mario/metroid rpgs with secret bosses getting 100% completition.Now we have a number to show off how big our e peen is. ( which is cool in my book ahahaha)

WoW added them in 2008 with Wrath of the Lich King so i don't think they introduced anything

Yes, but scoring within the rop 1% of an online community is not fun. Especially for people who ... work. Or  do other things :)