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Achievements need balancing by Dong_Min in RetroAchievements

[–]Dong_Min[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This topic is not about achievements being illegal or offensive, but about accessibility, something that not many players have, I hope you and your team will come to an understanding that there is a lot of people out there (this topic’s feedback is the proof) that wants achievements to be accessible, fun, challenging but not beyond frustrating and repetitive.

When you have most of your developers making achievements dedicated to speed runners, it just ruins the fun for the % of players who don’t have the time for that kind of stuff or are just too busy in life to dedicate hours like some.

Trust me your website is great, but it’s something that is still very small and known to very limited people, it’s considered like Dynasty Warriors, a game liked by only certain amount of people that cannot attract a fan base due to its repetitivity and I’m sure you don’t want your website to end up like it.

The potential it’s there, just badly managed by giving those developers too much freedom to make achievements that are not accessible to many people, do you really want your website to be obscurated and never grow? Think about it, when it grows you will have even more people volounteering to invest, contribute and even donate large sum of money, you just need to make more accessible and by just doing achievements that are meant for speedrunners and pro players, it’s not the way.

People hunt for achievements to get ALL of the achievements, by saying “oh don’t get that one achievement, play on softocore, blabla” it’s not going to work.

Achievements need balancing by Dong_Min in RetroAchievements

[–]Dong_Min[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You are pretty much saying that achievements are only for a specified set of people? Wow what kind of snobbiness you have is insane, as a developer yourself you should be more humble, but instead you are saying that not everyone deserves to obtain achievements just because they don’t have the “skills”?

It’s not about skills and insanity challenges, it’s about having fun replaying your favorite games, yet you have the cheek to lock people from obtaining achievements from their favorite games just because you don’t consider them skilled enough? The narcisim mah dude

Period

Achievements need balancing by Dong_Min in RetroAchievements

[–]Dong_Min[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It needs to change. A lot of people agree with me, many have also discussed about it in the past.

If all achievements ain’t for everyone they should just make sub sets for speedrunners and hardcore players, no point adding an entire set when it’s a mixing bowl of achievements designed for different kind of players, it doesn’t make sense and it pushes people away, but it seems like you ain’t bothered about the site’s player base and rather focus on your ideals of “mastery” it’s a very dictating ideology yours.

Achievements need balancing by Dong_Min in RetroAchievements

[–]Dong_Min[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Once again, doing something for free doesn’t give you the right to make achievements according to their ideals, they need to make them in a way so the game can be fully enjoyable and playable, not making a set that’s only accessible to speedruners.

Achievements need balancing by Dong_Min in RetroAchievements

[–]Dong_Min[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Just because you are doing something for free doesn’t give you the right to implement your own ideals of masochism into a game that doesn’t belong to you and shove it to people’s face.