Alby_da_Wolf said: Something similar to achievements contributed keeping me trapped in FarmVille, so now not only I mostly don't care, but I consider them EVIL too!

There were achievements in farmville?? I loved it too but stopped playing after I passed all my friends. Can't believe I spent $60 on farmville cash :S 

I care nothing for them and find them more annoying than anything else. Unlocks in games is fine; achievements just for worthless points and bragging rights is meaningless to me.

MoHasanie said: Alby_da_Wolf said: Something similar to achievements contributed keeping me trapped in FarmVille, so now not only I mostly don't care, but I consider them EVIL too! There were achievements in farmville?? I loved it too but stopped playing after I passed all my friends. Can't believe I spent $60 on farmville cash :S

You had a huge set of ribbons rewarding many activities, and timed activities (like planting special seasonal crops) often rewarded with special items (sometimes useful, particularly if you ranked high compared to friends, most often just ornamental collectibles). Not always completely equivalent to achievements or trophies, but often similar, particularly in the mental mechanism they trigger to keep gamers hooked to a game that was becoming boring and never was so good since the beginning (but since then designed to become obsessive-compulsive).