Achievements collecting has no real rewards

[Malakii]

Even if there are no rewards, they need to be fun to do. Perhaps I am wrong, but aren't most achievements either "You completed X thing" or "You did thing 1/5/10/100/1000+ times"? It doesn't really make me go "Oh thats interesting/That could be fun!"

You are correct and I understand anyone who is not interested in them or looks at them and thinks that doesn't look fun or interesting. As someone who collects achievements in every game that I play, this one has me questioning myself all the time because a lot of them are not fun nor are they intresting.

An achievement hunter is after completing the achievements, not getting the rewards. If they feel like an achievement isn't worth doing without a reward, then they're not achievement hunters. They're reward hunters.

I agree, I dont care about the rewards but I do care about the structure and innovation of achievements. Currently, there is none and it doesn't feel good to complete most of the achievements in ffxiv to me. I just have because I have played for so long and people will be like hey it's you. I usually respond hello? cause I am confused because it means little to nothing to be ranked high on my server for achievements because these achievements are complete shit.

Achievements are busywork to keep people subbed.

I hear this thrown around a lot but it's a niche group of people that do achievements enough to keep them sub. Myself being one of them, will stay subbed no matter what. I have for 10+ years now. I don't think it excuses the repetitive, boring structure that they have going on where every achievement is just x times a number and usually a high number that doesn't make you feel good about it in the end or insane achievements that take 7+ years to complete. If achievements are supposed to help keep people subbed and they see they have 7+ years minimum to get every achievement due to time-gated achievements attached to a dull repetitive task. I don't think it inspires people to get into it in the first place. They are just doing achievements completely wrong. If they want to force us to stay subbed then do an achievement that makes you do a certain task every month for a whole year. I don't think this is a good design but it's a lot better than x10k achievement or x20k that just encourages botting.