My name is Mayo is old news, the market place has evolved since then to meet demand and now games are created that are solid games but centered around the platinum and there is a wide range of difficulties and lengths. A 90 minute Platinum here, a better crafted four hour Platinum there for a few more chips but they are all made for the whore and with the whore in mind. Honestly, if you look at a whores trophy list you'll find hundreds of games like this and that's only the popular ones. These games count and people are making money off it and the costumers are enjoying boosting their accounts or getting whatever dopamine high they get. You'll see platinums rates as high as 80% on some of these games and remember 30% is the average credit roll completion rate for normal games with platinums at sub in the low single digits. The devs you are talking about obviously don't like their jobs and don't want to serve the costumer what they want, why would anyone go into work as a creative and NOT want to do the work. That's ludicrous. 

But there is the casual Sony gamer now, or more core Sony gamers who have got hooked on first party platinums and want more. This is a steadily growing area in the Sony ecosystem and the smart devs who want to do the work are making money. I personally think it should be regulated by Sony or games should get a stamp of Sony approval on platinums but hey, everyone in the equation seems to be happy so why change it. 

I used to hunt for platinum trophies but what used to make one special for me is when a game uses it to promote 100% competition (or show off everything the game offers), very hard challenges or making you play the game in an unconventional way. When I was able to platinum a game on my first play through on a easy/normal difficulty I usually didn't find it fulfilling.

Now that I'm older my mindset is totally different since I have less time to play games so I'm not actively looking for trophies. But I sort of welcome those easy platinum's if I find them doable lol. I always respect when games have very hard challenges and when players are able to beat them to be apart of the 0.2% who achieved that plat.

The best platinums are those that let you see all or almost all of the quests and such in a game. Platinums that require a playthrough on hard mode or harder or a lot of online trophies are very frustrating.

I stopped hunting for trophies around the time the PS4 arrived. Which is a long time ago now that I think about it! I don't miss it though. I became a little addicted, lol. My best remembered Platinums are Final Fantasy XIII and Killzone 2. Generally I liked platinums that are just really hard to get.

I don't even know which trophies I get these days. I completely turned off any notifications about it.

I have no idea. If I have any Platinum trophies then I don't know about it. I usually ignore them or turn off notifications because I dislike how immersion breaking they are. The last thing in the world I want is to beat a really intense, story-driven quest only to immediately see a little blurb with a cringe-inducing name pop up. Collectable trophies are fine but getting them for completing a quest feels meaningless and intrusive to me.

Probably the only time I've ever hunted for any kind of achievement in a game was with Borderlands 2, since it rewarded you with stat increases, but eventually I asked myself why I was doing something that wasn't fun or interesting so I stopped.

It's weird how you get a nice little feeling when a trophy pops. It doesn't really do anything or benefit you in any tangible way.