Achievements should be fun, not a full-time job

[Ankhira]

While I get that achievements are meant to be long-term goals and not necessarily for everyone, it’s hard to ignore how overwhelming they’re becoming. You don’t need to earn every achievement, of course, but with each patch, more and more get added, and for players who can’t be online all the time, it starts to feel incredibly daunting.

The new exploratory zone introduced some pretty extreme ones:

• Find 1,000 Happy Bunny carrots/chests in OC
  
• Open 1,000 persistent pot chests
  
• Open 5,000 chests

Then there are the hunt mount achievements—1,000 S ranks per expansion, meaning 3,000 total, plus the 6,000 A ranks on top of that.

And that’s just a handful of examples. So many of these achievements are practically impossible for the average player to complete. The hunt-related ones are particularly tough since spawns happen at odd hours—middle of the night, work hours, times when most people simply can't be online. Now, with the newest ones I've been in here every single day since it came out, farmed chests left and right, and I found two. Two.

I get that this is new content, but SE has a history of adding these types of achievements—just slapping on a massive number and calling it a day. Why not introduce achievements that are actually fun? Collect more mounts or minions, engage in unique challenges, something that isn’t just grinding the same repetitive task thousands of times.

I’m not saying achievements should be easy or handed out freely, but I do worry about the sheer time commitment some of these require. It feels pretty unfriendly to players who can’t play 24/7, making these goals feel more frustrating than rewarding.

[Conroy]

Its how they draw out their long content to keep players like myself interactive with the community.

Personally I don't know who approved of the carrots drop rate or 1000 requirement, but they need to be kicked out the door for "fun"

The thing I see more daunting is the 100 clears of Forked.

Pot Fates spawn so little, so this one will take months to get.

Carrots are found thru silver / bronze, so getting 5000 chests with a 1% drop is insane.

I've only gotten 2 carrots, and 320/5000 chests opened.

If you no life this content you can get 5,000 chests in most likely 4-8 weeks, while getting the pot one done in 8-12 weeks.

I honestly really feel like they added an extra ZERO on Carrot and Pot chests just cause, even if they halved these I'd be happy, but its set and stone now sadly.

[Kaurhz]

This is because they are meant to serve as lifetime achievement , not something necessarily fun but something done over the course of the entire game lifecycle. e.g., it's not really expected that you'll sit there and do 120-150 S-Rank hunts a week to bang out the Centurio Tiger in the span of 4 months.

Whilst I could agree a lot of achievements should be enjoyable, but in the same vein, there does still need to be lifetime achievements

[Fawkes]

They used to have achievements for doing something like 1, 10, 100, 500, and 1000 times but the title would always be from doing it 100 times. Now all the titles are for the poopsock amounts only. Even if these achievements will be progressable in the next exploration zone I don't think I could ever possibly get 1000 carrots, I've only gotten one so far.

It kinda sucks they don't want to give titles to regular human beings anymore.

[ShirakoShinkai]

I was just sort of complaining about this the other day. Personally, I think the idea of "lifetime" achievements is stupid. Just dedicating hours and hours of your time isn't really something to be proud of in my opinion. Sure, I guess they can have a few here or there, but when it feels like EVERY time they add an achievement, it's a "lifetime" achievement, it really sucks the fun out of things.

[Mawlzy]

Has anyone told Cider Spider about this 1,000 carrots business, or has he jumped ship too?

[ServerCollaps]

Some things are not that bad. The 5.000 chests are easy to achieve if you just stroll around, grind out gear etc.
The pot fates you can do 3-5 per hour and sometimes you get double dips on the loot.. thats maybe 200 hours of farm (way less than other achievements require) + you can farm other stuff at the same time

100 times the tower feels way over the top, considering that BA, which was much easier to access and clear, only required 10 clears
the carrot title is also dumb with the 1% droprate of carrots. You can buy 1000 carrots for 2b gil and finish it almost instantly tho

All in all, noone is forced to grind any achievement in the game. Noone is entitled to get everything. You dont like content? Just dont do it and dont ask for it to be removed.. lol

[Conroy]

Just remember you only have a "chance" to get a pot to begin with too, should just give you one if you achieve a gold rating.

[Ankhira]

Some things are not that bad. The 5.000 chests are easy to achieve if you just stroll around, grind out gear etc.
The pot fates you can do 3-5 per hour and sometimes you get double dips on the loot.. thats maybe 200 hours of farm (way less than other achievements require) + you can farm other stuff at the same time

100 times the tower feels way over the top, considering that BA, which was much easier to access and clear, only required 10 clears
the carrot title is also dumb with the 1% droprate of carrots. You can buy 1000 carrots for 2b gil and finish it almost instantly tho

All in all, noone is forced to grind any achievement in the game. Noone is entitled to get everything. You dont like content? Just dont do it and dont ask for it to be removed.. lol

Literally nobody here asked for it to be removed

[ServerCollaps]

Literally nobody here asked for it to be removed

you asked for long time goals to be not implemented at all x)