Yesterday I was looking through the achievements lists and I kind of thought to myself, what’s the point of this? I mean sure it gives you achievement points which I guess you could show off to your friends in the way that you’ve done more things and are more experienced than they are.. but I don’t feel like that’s enough incentive to even really worry about achievements. They’re fun sure, but I feel like they should have more rewards. I also realize that some achievements give titles (which are also pretty unnoticeable and should be changed to be more flashy or important imo so they have more significance and worth), but what I mean is most of those achievements that just have tons of tiers and don’t really lead to anything in the end or just achievements that once you do them, they give you achievements points and that’s it.
For example, jumping puzzles are really fun and interesting to find, but still what’s the point of finishing them besides to get achievement points and a few items here and there? It doesn’t feel significant or important or even that useful in the slightest to get those small items and to get achievement points that make no actual difference in your game.. There’s not even a title for finishing all the jumping puzzles, which I always thought there was before I checked.
Now some might argue about the Daily and Monthly achievements being what I’m asking about and I say those are exactly the kind of things that should be implemented for other achievements! The box of awards you get is the only reason I even worry about doing my daily and it actually does give me incentive to do it even though the award is small (Depending on the achievement, they should give bigger rewards for completing those instead of the same as the daily rewards which are very small though). The monthly needs work though, they should give a bigger reward than the one given right now for the monthly since it’s actually a challenge to get.
I don’t know what kind of rewards Anet could give in relation to Achievements that wouldn’t be either broken or too simple, but I really feel like there should be some significant rewards for doing some of those achievements that don’t give titles. Personally I’m losing incentive to worry about my achievements just because I find no practical use in them or importance in getting achievement points and that’s disappointing to me because I really feel like the achievement system could be very exciting and fun if implemented to it’s full potential for PvE. It would give me something to work towards. I would start looking more for Jumping Puzzles and thinking about completing more achievements if there was something I could be working towards that had a decent amount of worth and value to me.
In conclusion, I realize the game is a work in progress and this is a big suggestion of mine to create more incentive to have fun in the game and work towards things in the PvE because incentive really creates interest and I want the PvE to be engaging and interesting all the way through rather than with most MMO’s, the rush to level 80 and then the focus on PvP and end game dungeons (which also need a lot of work and I’m sure Anet is on the ball to make those more interesting and “end-game” worthy).
P.S. Like I said, the titles really need work because those are an award that some achievements give, but it really just isn’t flashy or significant enough for anyone to care for them from what I’ve been seeing and I hear most of them are broken. I really really reaaaalllllyyyyy suggest giving the titles more significance, more visual quality, and more importance because that’s also an aspect of end-game and end-game is what the players stick around for right? I don’t want Guild Wars 2 to be the type of game that no one plays after hitting level 80 and messing around for a month of end game here and there, I want this game to be the type of game people stick around for until the next updates/expansions/“next best thing” and possibly even beyond that.
I sincerely hope you read this Arena Net and if you do, thank you for your time! Keep up the good work!
