Achievement Points: Give them a purpose

[Niwashi]

As for why they are in game at all, I believe that all titles on Sony's systems, at least the systems with a trophy system in it, are required to have Achievements.

The in-game achievement system is completely separate from the trophy system. The console versions of FFXIV:ARR have both, but they reward different things. There's a lot more achievements than there are trophies, and in general the actions that earn you one will not earn you the other.

[NoRyoKu]

Achievement is only for bragging right and nothing else, and it should stay that way

[Nicobo]

Achievement is only for bragging right and nothing else, and it should stay that way

That is not true.
Achievemenet shows you who is the first timer when your party reach the boss room. ^^;


Another example,
Rez 20ppl (not in your PT) will get an achievement , this is a good one encourage ppl to rez stranger.

[Volcano]

The point of the games that we play is for personal enjoyment, Achievements are there to let you personally know what you have accomplished. They don't need to serve for anything other then that, bragging rights i guess? if you're the type to brag.

[Dimitrias]

FFXIAH.com had a ranking system based on there achievement system. It literally ranked people across the board for pretty much everything in the game. Even with the total amount the player had. I remember way back on the everquest 1 sight, they had an extremely detailed ranking system.

I really hope SE end's up with a really detailed ranking system, so we can see how we compare to other players like we could in ffxi.

[ValVae]

You get plenty of things from earning certain achievements already, it would be redundant to get even more stuff for that.

[Tupsi]

Funnily enough, achievements/AScore that does nothing is actually becoming an outdated concept. Even Trophies/Achievements for the consoles has more and more use now in the games because they're used to unlock certain content or items.

[Sadana]

I love collecting achievements! It's lots of fun. There are some items you can get with the achievements themselves (luminary tools and paragon gown, for example), but it would be neat to get more silly, fluff items for completing a certain number of achievements (using the overall points). Kind of like the challenge log giving you a bonus for finishing a certain number of log entries. I've often wondered why achievements earn points but we can't use the points for anything.

[mbncd]

[Snip] I've often wondered why achievements earn points but we can't use the points for anything.

I get the whole "achievements are achievements" thing, but why bother attaching a number to them if the number's not going to do anything? No one other than you can even see the number. Why not put the number to use or get rid of it entirely?

I've wondered the exact same thing since they were implemented. Different achievements have different "values" points wise (some are 5, some are 20); surely that will mean something, right? Apparently not o.O

[Beetle]

They really should consider having more stuff for players to try to earn.
1000 achievement pts=title
2000 achievement pts=minion
3000 achievement pts=barding
4000 achievement pts=mount
5000 achievement pts=title
6000 achievement pts=minion
7000 achievment pts=mount