Achievement Points: Give them a purpose

[Nicobo]

...an empty system that really has no place in an MMO.

Achievement definitely is the real endgame score, it reflects your completion.
Some achievements are very hard to obtain and most ppl can ignore them,
and as you said, a normal player at least should have n achievements completed when he calls it end game.
If he doesn't, his end game apparently has missed some experiences that everyone have.
Then he can review what he has missed. ^^;

[TouchandFeel]

One thing that should be restricted though are the types of reward offered. They should be purely cosmetic or minor convenience items, nothing which directly affects gameplay to any strong degree. Things like teleport tokens are fine, high level weapons or rare materials are not.

That is exactly what I intended, no rewards that could give any actual gameplay advantage; just glamour items, titles, minions, things like that. Oh and they would all be unique and untradeable so that nobody could make a profit by selling them on the market.

[NoRyoKu]

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

[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Funnily enough, achievements/AScore that does nothing is actually becoming an outdated concept.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.

[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

[Shori]

In Guild Wars 2 players would unlock bonuses, such as special weapon skins, when they reached certain amounts of total achievement points.

Like the ones that already exist? The job rings, the crowns, the bardings....