10 years to complete 1 achivment "Enraptured Service"

[Zappo]

You can't compare learning guitar with getting a meaningless achievement in a game, that's just silly. Discipline in a game could be trying to beat this one boss over and over, slowly making progress.

Doing something over, over and over again with no carrot or enjoyment other than a meaningless achievement at the end of that very long corridor is just insane. Achievements can be fun and add layers of depth to the enjoyment of a game, but this is not the way to achieve that.

It sounds like achievements aren't for you. You can't say that there's no carrot or that it's meaningless. Some people really enjoy completing the achievements, even if seeing them completed is the only reward. It goes back to the atari days when there were no rewards other than a higher score or just seeing something that most people never reach. Getting there was the reward. If that doesn't excite you, don't do it.

[Menubrea]

It sounds like achievements aren't for you. You can't say that there's no carrot or that it's meaningless. Some people really enjoy completing the achievements, even if seeing them completed is the only reward. It goes back to the atari days when there were no rewards other than a higher score or just seeing something that most people never reach. Getting there was the reward. If that doesn't excite you, don't do it.

Time and score attacks is nothing like this. It's just doing the same task over and over again, which requires no more effort than the time invested. It's poor design, and I would much rather them make achievements you feel accomplished for completing.