Problem: Achievements

[Daku_Naito]

Why the double post?
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...043-Acheiments

Double post because of the wrong spelling, I was hoping the first one would float out of existence.

The problem isnt the ahievment, its your approach to them

NOT ALL OF THEM ARE MEANT TO BE DONE NOW, some of them are long long long term goals

Again, there is no point when most people don't even want to touch them.

omg i can't get this achievement next week, this game sucks.

I don't want the achievements to be easy, I want them to take time, but I also don't want ridiculous achievements that no one wants to do. That defeats the purpose. I don't mind long term goals, but it can't be a goal if no one even tries to start it.

It all depends how you look at it, while some could be made a bit easier, I am planning to get my Luminary pick, and just got my Mining your own business: Thanalan V achievement yesterday, going for the others now

The golden tools are no problem, those are feasible long term goals. They make you want to get them.

There's a difference between "long long long term goals" and 3 year long goals that require doing local levequests without ever letting it reach past 99+ quests (or else it will take even longer) for just 20 points, and that's just one achievement.

Not to mention the rewards for many of the achievements are simply way underwelming, even considering just the achievement points.

"Lost in Localization" takes way longer than "Notorious Monster Hunting", however the later gives more points and a title, for example. The crafting achievements are also way faster than the local leve ones and give an actual useful tool at the end.

It's nice to have very long term goals, but it's also nice to be properly rewarded by them, even if it's in something as "meaningless" as those achievement points.

Exactly, there seems to be no point in these super long achievements. No only do I get nothing out of it, it is just ridiculous to ask someone to do 5,000 levequests, especially with leveling that way is far worse then partying.