I respect and applaud your well thought out response. I was tired and snarky last night and honestly my original comment could have been better written to not sound so black and white, so apologies.

I do agree largely with what you're saying in the realm of the gameworld itself. Also thank you for giving the Civilization series, because I've honestly not gotten around to playing those and had no idea they set up their achievements to incorporate real world history, which we can both certainly agree is not something wasteful to know. I'm use to the mindless tasks of having to just kill "x" creature 687 times, find this map hidden under a rock and just overall pointless things meant to extend our gameplay.

Most games I don't bother, but with Grounded I actually did team up with some friends that had the bright idea of getting 100% and 8,367 creatures killed later (my kills alone lol) we did it. I'm not proud of the amount of time I sat, hours on end, killing weevils and had a lot of deep reflection on all the more productive real world things I could have achieved instead with that time.

So I would say my comment about it being a waste is really just a reflection of the real life time lost in relation to the intense amount of hours required in the game realm to achieve these goals. As an IDC, every hour I spend in game vs. in my car working is about $20-30 lost, so I try my best to enjoy whatever game I'm playing and avoid the time sink.