Reimagining Achievements - A list of changes for a healthy game

[thedude28]

I agree that achievements should be more interesting, but as a completionist, I hate the idea of "retired" unobtainable achievements.

That would very much suck for newer people who are getting in to the game later and want to do all the things.

What an absurdly stupid take. It's like you didn't think about what OP was asking for.

Sure, your stance is a respectable one, but when you look at the achievements in the game...

1. Most removed achievements aren't related to difficult challenges. Some were circumstantial to 1.0 systems (i.e. 1.0 beast tribe titles). You weren't missing out on much...
2. You were already engaging with most of the systems/achievements anyways. OP was referring to the achievements with extreme requirements and prejudice.
3. The rarest ones only rewards those who have the time (patience is a given in our hobby). That's the only achievement. Nobody is there to clap for you when you've spent over 1k hours in PoTD collecting hordes. They'll only clap when you get the Necromancer title.
4. Not only do they add new achievements to existing tasks, their requirements are DOUBLE the previous achievement (For the Horde VI, added 6.35, forcing you, as a completionist, to collect an additional 10K HORDES!!!!!)

All of this is to say that one look at the Occult Crescent achievements is enough to question you and your achievement hunt. How much time does it take for 100 Forked Tower runs? How much gil/time would it cost you to get 1k bunny chests and 1k chests from pots?

If the 5k leves achievement (or similar unhealthy time sinks) was removed today, would you feel bad for newly minted FFXIV achievement hunters? Would you want them to suffer in the same way you did?