Overhaul the Achievement Point Shop

[HyperiusUltima]

I was reading through one of the troll threads to sift for actual discussion(yes, I know it's bad - but there's still ideas to be had), and came upon someone talking about Achievement Points essentially being useless after getting everything.

It doesn't even take a whole lot to get it all, either. I'm sitting on somewhere around 1k+ points that essentially will never see the light of day because there aren't enough rewards as someone said in that same thread I looked at.

It's probably time to overhaul it and make those points usable - not for Muh-tear-ree-ah(I'm staring at you Variant Dungeons...) or fireworks, but for things that are tied to the leveling experience - or even glamour for that matter!

For instance, you could buy:

- Gear that's appropriate for your level, if you've been lacking in terms of iLv(helps move you along HW onward)

- Glamour unique to Achievement Point Shop(not the glamour that you get from completing Achievements)

- Hairstyles

- MORE MINIONS

- Event Orchestrion Rolls/Glamour(You already have enough glamour on the Mogstation, SE)

- EMOTES(INCLUDING TIMED EXCLUSIVE EMOTES)

- Mounts



There is literally a lot they could just shove in there and have people use their Achievement Points on. They just have to shove it in there and make it more accessible! They can even make some things cost a lot of Achievement Points if they want considering that there's a ton to do in the game, and if there's something to strive for, you'll have people engaging in different content than the simple combat content.

I really want them to consider this because as it is right now, it's pretty bad given that veterans who have gotten the sub rewards(which are in the Achievement Shop atm) don't have much to spend their points on and they just sit there.

[Iscah]

A limited range of cash shop items would be nice. Maybe just the consumable items like dyes and Fantasias. Housing items and old event rewards if they're feeling generous.

[Denji]

most of the stuff in there is just the stuff we'd get for being subbed. the system used to give a lot more goodies but i guess as the years went on it became obvious to square it'd make more sense to sell stuff for irl cash, discontinued it and stuffed it into that NPC.

which also is weird because a lot of achievement stuff you just get given to you from the achievement window itself. i suspect the dude in gridania is just a vestige of what remains of how it might've functioned before they opted for the achievement window instead.

[Jojoya]

A limited range of cash shop items would be nice. Maybe just the consumable items like dyes and Fantasias. Housing items and old event rewards if they're feeling generous.

Dyes and Fantasias seem like the best way to go. They are useful regardless of character progression and a player may want multiple of them unlike orchestrion rolls, minions and mounts which are only used once.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Let me spend achievement points for Gold and Silver Feathers, so I can get some of those items. Everyone I know who'd be into the game already plays it, so those are all out of reach for me.

[ICountFrom0]

The achivement point shop was originally just a bandaid.

They'd made the rewards for subscription's take too long to get all of them, so they pulled those out, put them into the achivement points, and then started that over again.

They've once again maxed out how long they are willing to make the subscription rewards take.... and should dump those into the achivement point store again... but they won't.

All kinds of things could end up there, but that would require work from departments that already don't have free time.

Lets face it, people won't start playing again, or start playing, just because that shop has a few more items, and anything less won't make them do it.

[Rufalus]

Anything would be an improvement, even if it's just recolors of existing mounts, minions, fashion accessories and glamor gear. Dump a whole lot of items there and don't make them all dirt cheap. Something has to cost a large amount, otherwise why do we have some many certificates.

They made achievement points to certificate currency a 50:1 ratio, so 25K points gives you 500 certificates to spend. They only add like 4 certificates worth of rewards every couple of years. What do I do with the hundreds I have remaining?

[NekoMataMata]

Let me spend achievement points for Gold and Silver Feathers, so I can get some of those items. Everyone I know who'd be into the game already plays it, so those are all out of reach for me.

I would take this.

Really close to breaking into the top 100 achievement points for my server, and it's just so sad seeing that I have nothing to dump these certificates on.

[Iscah]

Let me spend achievement points for Gold and Silver Feathers, so I can get some of those items. Everyone I know who'd be into the game already plays it, so those are all out of reach for me.

That would be a good idea. The recruit-a-friend campaign would still have its own drawcards (the emote, EXP circlet and specific mount) but there would also be another way to get feathers for the secondary rewards, especially since some of those are consumables. That would also merge with my earlier suggestion to add dyes from the cash shop to the achievement shop, since you can exchange gold feathers for those.

(A silver-to-gold feather exchange would be nice too. I got ten silver feathers for moving servers, but all I can buy with them is gear up to Cryptlurker level, and I already had all of my characters at 80 before I moved. It feels a waste to just exchange them for ultimately a few company seals.)

[Hyperia]

Let me spend achievement points for Gold and Silver Feathers, so I can get some of those items. Everyone I know who'd be into the game already plays it, so those are all out of reach for me.

This is a fantastic idea!