Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
To offer artificial carrots to make people do these activities? No, that's not the point of video games.

If the joy of exploration isn't a carrot in itself forcing people to do it through artificial carrots is no better.
Seemed to work well for most devs this gen. Achievements and trophies keep people playing games long after they would have usually shelved them. I'm not saying SP at aetheryte would change any opinions on this game, but it might keep a player playing longer before running into the inevitable "needs more content" wall.