World of Warcraft Achievement System Rumored

Kotaku has the merest hint of a rumor about a possible achievement system coming with Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King expansion. "You know what World of Warcraft players really need? Another reason not to get up out of their chair, and Blizzard might be giving that to them in the form of in-game achievements in the next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. According to DeathKnight.info, players in the Wrath of the Lich King alpha can type /achievement to bring up a screen like the one above, which shows various achievements that can be performed for points, which will more than likely then go towards buying gear and such."

I'm so over Wow.

[TheGeneration]

I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point?

It's just a giant life force sucking treadmill.

Re:I'm so over Wow.

[Sklyan]

I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point?

The sense of fulfillment you get from any hobby -- be it building model planes, or collecting bottle caps. Call me an existentialist, but you can step back from any aspect of life and ask "what's the point?" and you will generally find that there isn't one.

Re:I'm so over Wow.

[Moridineas]

That's true and I agree with you (I've argued the same point on slashdot before--who cares if people have fun doing it, it's up to them)

but I think the GP is referring more generally to the feeling of disillusionment/ennui? many people seem to feel after falling head over heels into WoW. I played soon after the game came out, and was very addicted. I then stopped and it was like ... crap, what I was doing, I could have done X,Y,Z etc instead. Of course I reactivated my account 2 years later, played for a couple months, and felt the same thing again, so I obviously didn't learn my lesson :-P

I've heard similar reactions from others.

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[chronoblip]

I am a fan of customization and choices. When you pick a class in WoW, you get at most 3 choices on how you want to play that class. There are slight variations on the 3 main types, but pretty much you will get pigeon holed into one of the roles.

That's why I have enjoyed games of the hack-and-slash style a lot more, ALA Diablo series and most recently Titan Quest (I love TQ). You get to pick a play style from caster, melee, or hybrid, because that's as specific as you can get while still being able to tal

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[Reapy]

You just have to think out what you are willing to do, and you won't be disillusioned at the end. I played wow way back, got to 60, ran 1 instance, saw that all I had to look forward to was minuscule gear upgrades (no bgs or pvp at the time) and doing the same thing over and over again, so I quit, having fully enjoyed my time playing. I just started again about 2 months ago, and now at 70, am doing some gear grinding and what not, because I find the experience more enjoyable this time around, esp playing w

Re:I'm so over Wow.

[silentbozo]

If I build a model plane, I can put it up on my mantle, gift it to someone, and take the skills I developed building that and put it towards other items requiring fine motor skills and and a sense of art and history.

I think someone mentioned in a post regarding WOW on a different Slashdot thread that raiding as part of an established group taught them how to manage time, coordinate with other people, and build leadership skills.

Pretty much, you get out of a hobby what you put into it. If it's just a way of killing time, then all you're going to get out of it is a lot of dead time. If your reason to play is the social dynamics (I knew people who played because their friends had moved away, and it was the regular "meetup"), then I think the test would be if these social networks survive beyond the game.

With that said, I detest games that require you to stay on the treadmill to "keep up". At least when I do work I hate during normal working hours, I get paid...

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[Tubal-Cain]

Knowing WoW doesn't pay as well.

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[ottothecow]

I played wow for a while and I mostly enjoyed my time playing it (I quit when I didn't enjoy a lot of it and didnt have the time to put in for the stuff I did enjoy).

I feel like I developed some better team play skills (especially with regards to a fixed role) that have helped me a lot to be a better player in Team Fortress 2. They may not be particularly useful life skills but they helped me to do better in another activity so there is some value there. I sold the account which if I remember right came

So don't

[Moraelin]

With that said, I detest games that require you to stay on the treadmill to "keep up". At least when I do work I hate during normal working hours, I get paid...

The bleeding obvious answer is: so don't stay on the treadmill. Go do whatever keeps you entertained, when it keeps you entertained.

I'm somewhat surprised how many people seem to, well, think they have some kind of _duty_ to achieve some level, get some item, etc. Or in some pathological cases think they somehow prove their penis size by how many level 70's they have and with what gear. So they grind and work and miss the whole point of having fun and/or making friends.

The game between levels 1 and 69 is _the_ meat of the game. That's the zones you're supposed to explore, enemies you're supposed to test yourself against, the quests and bits of story you're supposed to discover, etc. That's the actual game. It's some hundreds of hours worth of content.

And it sorta amuses me to see some people try to skip the actual game, or even use some bot to skip it for them, just so they too can then willy-wave about having a level 70. And then get stuck in an endgame grind which is no more than a repetitive chore for people who've finished the actual game and don't know when to quit.

It's akin to trying to skip most of the LOTR trilogy, just to end up watching the last 5 minutes in a loop, for months.

So basically, then just don't stay on a treadmill. Realize that levels and gear are there just

A) to give you some sense of making progress,

B) so you can practice your new abilities and tactics one at a time, instead of dumping 60 icons upon you from the start, and putting you in front of Kil'jaeden before you even know what they all do, and

C) to gently guide you about in which order you're supposed to go through the story and quests. Among other thing _because_ that's the actual game, some hundreds of hours and thousands of quests, which you're supposed to play and experience. Not just click an "I win!!!" button and be over with it.

But there is no obligation to keep up with anyone or anything. There is no par time that you have to beat. And it's not some shameful failure to take things at your own pace, do the things you feel like doing, and generally just enjoy the game.

In other words, the game is about and consists of the road, not just the destination.

And if you think that that road, in fact the game itself, is just a treadmill, well, you can just quit it now. Because it doesn't get any better. Once you're done with that "treadmill", there is no grand reward waiting for you, and no "meat of the game" that begins at level 70. What happens when that "treadmill" finally ends, is that it spits you right into the tarpit of a repetitive and pointless grind that's there just do give you something to do while you wait for the next segment (i.e., expansion pack) of the actual game.

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[TheGeneration]

I totally agree with you on just about every point. The problem for me is that some of the mid games stories aren't very compelling. (Stuff in the 30's and 40's bracket can be pretty mundane.)

In addition there has to be a better way to tell a story then "grab 30 boar pelts" off an animal that has a 20% drop rate. Why make me grind like that in hundreds of quests? It's not entertaining for me.

I personally think there is a fundamental flaw in the game play of these games.

not quite

[unity100]

the achievement fulfillment you get from building model planes, or collecting bottle caps, stay as they are. each of the becomes a permanent piece in your collection. they do not get obsolete with yearly introduced expansions and get thrown away.

Re:not quite

[BigDork1001]

Lets flip that around a bit. My WoW hobby doesn't leave crap scattered all over the house and piling up in a closet somewhere.

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[zippthorne]

Well, that's not the experience of most people's WoW hobby...

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[MBGMorden]

That IS pretty bad :). Strangely enough though, the only monitor I've ever had to screen burn was an LCD. Yeah, yeah, I know. That's supposed to be impossible. It happened though. I had a Hyundai Imagequest L70A. Even when booted into Linux, there was a little "Start" button (from Windows) burned into the corner of the screen. Other edges of the monitor were also distorted, almost as if the edges had melted just a lil. The monitor completely died about 3-4 weeks later.

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[Flamora]

And who's to say the memories of what you've done don't stay with you? I played WoW for about two years starting on release day, and I still have all the videos that I shot (I was my guild's lead videographer) of my guild's first kills of every boss in the game up to the Four Horsemen in Naxxrammus. Sure, we never scored any world firsts and only had one server first, but I enjoyed the camaraderie that my guildmates and I had, and I enjoyed the experience of being given a puzzle and working with 39 other pe

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[unity100]

with the examples they have given, ie model airplanes, you have both the memory and the thing to show people. what you have are only images of memories.

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[brkello]

And you are posting on Slashdot. What do you have to show for it...only memories and the ability to see your messages of the past. If we go with this stupid model airplane thing, you should have been making a model airplane instead of posting on Slashdot.

We do a lot of stupid things to pass the time and enjoy ourselves. Judging someone on how they spend their free time is pretty sad. And I am tired of coming on Slashdot and reading people telling people how to live their lives and then spouting off some

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[unity100]

And you are posting on Slashdot. What do you have to show for it...only memories and the ability to see your messages of the past. If we go with this stupid model airplane thing, you should have been making a model airplane instead of posting on Slashdot.

dont post again, if you are gonna make such shallow analogies, for you wont get an response for the second time.

with your logic its no point chatting with your spouse or your parents either.

We do a lot of stupid things to pass the time and enjoy ourselves. Judging someone on how they spend their free time is pretty sad. And I am tired of coming on Slashdot and reading people telling people how to live their lives and then spouting off some libertarian philosophy on how no one should interfere with their lives. Isn't that just a tad hypocritical?

ill tell you what is hypocritical. what is hypocritical is delegating your hobby to pass the time to the hands of a company which is bent on just making you pay continually and doing that by regularly introducing stuff that will make whatever you did obsolete, a thing of the past, zero, nada, zilch, leaving only mem

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[Cornflake917]

You know you can use the shift key to capitalize letters right? You seem to know where the "." and the "," keys are as well, the "'" key is relatively close to them. Really. Just try it. It's not that difficult.

ill tell you what is hypocritical. what is hypocritical is delegating your hobby to pass the time to the hands of a company which is bent on just making you pay continually and doing that by regularly introducing stuff that will make whatever you did obsolete, a thing of the past, zero, nada, zilch, leaving only memories.

You've failed to mention why that's hypocritical. Care to explain? Also saying WoW only leaves you with only memories is not really true. Especially in a game that involves social interaction. If you're not a total jackass to people over the internet, you can actually make friends. I know

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[unity100]

you either didnt read, or ignoring what i wrote.

in wow you have only your memories. everything else, and what memory you are gonna have next is at the whim of a lead developer in a software company. and that company does not have a good track record of caring for the players lately.

in everything else that has been given as example, you are the decision maker when it comes to your hobby.

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[brkello]

Wow. You really don't get it. I'll break it down very simply for you. If you don't like it, don't play it, I really don't care and am not trying to change your mind. But don't tell me how to spend my free time.

with your logic its no point chatting with your spouse or your parents either.

No, that was YOUR logic. You see how stupid it is to tell people what they should do with their free time yet? Sad thing is that by that comment you just proved that you agreed with me but are too stupid to underst

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[MBGMorden]

So grab a figure print. Just having a physical model doesn't invalidate the original poster's point. What's the point in going out in dancing? No physical thing there either. It's simply that people do things because they're fun. If you have fun doing something, then do it. If you're not having fun, then don't do it. But to step back and try to convince yourself that "whoa, this if fun but I shouldn't be having fun this way. I should have fun in a more socially acceptable manner" is a bit strange.

As

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[unity100]

in dancing, what you do doesnt get obsolete, or useless either. if you learned salsa, it stays with you. what you know doesnt get reduced to nothing with planned, regular release of a yearly 'salsa expansion'.

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[MBGMorden]

But of the electric slide is hot next year you need to learn something new ;). It could even be argued that since salsa never changes, then it gets stale too fast and people would get bored doing that instead of sticking with something that gives them a changing set of objectives (not saying I agree with that, I'm just playing devil's advocate).

The point is simply that if one enjoys doing something, then they enjoy it. Coming back with an endless supply "BUT WITH PB&J, YOU GET TO EAT IT!!!" proves not

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[unity100]

electric slide you learn next year wont risk being obsolete within 1.5 months of its appearance with a patch.

leaving one's enjoyment and the way its conducted to the whims of a company's lead developer is not wise. if blizzard was like google, if it cared for its players' enjoyment like google fought u.s. govt for its users' privacy, it would be acceptable to do it. but it isnt.

blizzard is just an underling of quarterly profit greedy conglomerate vivendi now. and its entire development approach has be

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[MBGMorden]

electric slide you learn next year wont risk being obsolete within 1.5 months of its appearance with a patch.

Actually, the electric slide has been obsolete for quite a while now ;).

You're still not getting it. You're latching onto one thing that you don't like about a product or service, but that MANY people don't care about, or actively LIKE, and then claiming that it's a waste of time. As said, you obviously don't like Blizzard or it's games. Please understand that many do, and they're not being fooled or deceived in any way.

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[unity100]

i have started online gaming with starcraft back in 1998. i still run the biggest national starcraft forum. dont jump into self conceived conclusions. but that was a different era.

Please understand that many do, and they're not being fooled or deceived in any way.

they'll see in time.

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[Anguirel]

Disco isn't dead? You have nightly waltzes playing in all the hottest clubs near you? The break-dancers are no longer trying to push the limit and do something new? The dance clubs play all their music for free and you don't need to pay every time you go? They aren't trying to make money off your entertainment?

My ability to lead a raid translates to the next expansion, or the next game. The club I used to dance at no longer plays music I like. I guess my dancing skills have gone obsolete, as there is

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[unity100]

Disco isn't dead?

no

You have nightly waltzes playing in all the hottest clubs near you?

there are a lot of clubs for any kind of dance enthusiast. and 'hottest' is very relative.

The dance clubs play all their music for free and you don't need to pay every time you go? They aren't trying to make money off your entertainment?

making money is one thing, MILKING customers is another. if a nightclub have disabled the water taps in their club in order to sell the customers bottled water in exorbitant prices, that would be similar to what blizzard is doing.

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[happyemoticon]

If by "point" you mean there's some large, enduring justification for doing something, then yes, nothing has a point because we, the planet, and the universe will die. But if you mean ANY justification, things can most certainly have points. I don't need any better reason than pleasure and love to have sex, even though pleasure is fleeting, love is fragile, and eventually I'll die. Likewise, I play video games to have fun, pointless as it may be. And I stopped playing WoW because it stopped being fun.

If

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[ReiDragon]

What about when you find a boyfriend through WoW like I did? Then it keeps going since he found a gamer chick, and I found him.

So why continue living?

[syn1kk]

Your claim is that life does not have any reason or explanation as to WHY you are alive or WHY am I doing this or that ?

If life has to reason to explain why you do something... what governs your decision making ?

p.s. let me guess... you are a relativists or nihilist or both?

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[vertinox]

The sense of fulfillment you get from any hobby -- be it building model planes, or collecting bottle caps. Call me an existentialist, but you can step back from any aspect of life and ask "what's the point?" and you will generally find that there isn't one.

I think the point is that grinding is not the hobby but rather what you have to do to get things to enjoy the hobby.

It would like not be able to build your models until you've actually held down a full time job to pay for the models, paint, and glue BUT e

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[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I get it.

But World of Warcraft is now just introducing badges, which games like City of Heroes have since day 1, 4+ years ago.

Some of my better and favorite badges, though I can't remember their names:

• Killing 100 Hulks in Perrigrine Island, a tough, hard-hitting boss street trash with groupies (Grants +5% endurance or health or something)
• Doing 1 million points damage
• Taking 1 million points damage
• Dying and resurrecting (many) times
• Killing this or that Giant Monster, Monster, or Arch Villain
• Nimble Mynx, for v

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[Tontoman]

Hey, if you have something negative to say, why say it? I mean, why spend the time complaining when you could have already gone and bought/downloaded another game to play? I like what Blizzard has to offer. It's new, compared to what they've done before. This in my opinion is a great add-on to the games already great story/gameplay
'Grats Blizzard, another great addon to the game! Cheers

Re:I'm so over Wow.

[TitusC3v5]

I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point?

Well, this may be a shot in the dark, but maybe, just maybe, people find the various grinds in the game to be...fun? Far too many people get caught up in the constant gear and leveling treadmill to really focus on what should be the goal of the game - enjoying yourself.

On a related note, this system is more or less a direct copy of LotRO's deed system. There's a running commentary on it right over over at the LotRO forums [lotro.com].

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[merreborn]

On a related note, this system is more or less a direct copy of LotRO's deed system.

That's okay, Turbine has cribbed a few features from WoW too. e.g., in their first MMO, Asheron's Call, they recently introduced a quest that's virtually indistinguishable from the various WoW deck quests (deck of warlords, deck of portals, etc. etc.). Hell, the whole LOTR UI looks a lot more like WoW than it does Turbine's previous games...

There's an awful lot of 'borrowing' in the MMO industry.

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[Liquidrage]

Xbox live surely predates LotRO. And I'm sure we can find something even before that. In fact, lots of games (just not MMO's) has similar stuff. Madden's been doing it for years and years.

And more to the point I'd think Warhammer Online's upcoming version of this is the one they're really after. LotRO's version is just shorta shabby.

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[dcjester]

And LOTRO probably got the idea from existing games, such as Guild Wars and City of Heroes (mind you, both made and run by NCSoft). As usual, its the idea that "if it works in a competitors game, why not put it in ours and see what happens?" Look at every game thats out there right now, people can point to one of the others and say "this game had it first" or "they are ripping this game off". Its simply seeing what other players like and dislike, and then finding out if your community of players would acc

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[zwei2stein]

They also added something like this to Guild Wars (from which Lotro borrowed it, btw.)

It kinda sucked and is indirectly responsible for sorry state it's PvE is in nowadays.

Re:I'm so over Wow.

[Toby_Tyke]

Well, this may be a shot in the dark, but maybe, just maybe, people find the various grinds in the game to be...fun?

I have never played WOW, but my housemate is a huge WOW addict who will regularly spend his entire weekend playing it. And I mean the entire weekend. Toilet and food breaks, but nothing else.

But the interesting thing is that he seems to derive almost no enjoyment from playing it. All he ever seems to do is complain constantly. "Oh for fucks sake, I've got to kill $x of $y!". "I've been doing this for an hour!". "Now I've got to go there!". Non-stop whining. The only positive things he ever says about his WOW playing are things like "I have X gold", or "I went up X levels this weekend".

Now as I said, I'm not a WOW player, or an MMORPG player at all, so I expect a lot of them are going to reply and tell me how wrong I am, but here's my theory. I think that some WOW players, like my house mate, do not actually enjoy playing the game. They enjoy the sense of achievement they get from having 70 levels and a shitload of virtual gold. The hours of grind required to get there are simply the price they have to pay to get that. That's why you hear so many players complaining about the "timesink". They aren't having fun. They just have to slog through it to pick up the next level.

Before you all start screaming at me, I'm not saying all MMO players are like this, just that I've noticed some are.

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[BobMcD]

Well, this may be a shot in the dark, but maybe, just maybe, people find the various grinds in the game to be...fun?

Agreed. Or to try and put it another way, since all of life is a grind, so why not select the most pleasant version of it?

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[DerWulf]

People keep saying this "oh man, that's just a copy of XYZ" as if it's a bad thing. In all products and technology I wish people would copy more the good stuff from their competitors. As a customer I'm the one benefiting from that.

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[GodfatherofSoul]

I used to think exactly as you did. Then, I realized that the problem was my inability to moderate my play (because I had so much fun playing WoW). If you feel like you're wasting time on some entertainment outlet, you're probably doing it too much at the expense of your real life and real obligations.

BTW, I've stopped playing precisely for that reason. But, I had a hell of a lot of fun playing and I can't blame Blizzard for creating such a phenomenal product.

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[Idimmu Xul]

I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point? It's just a giant life force sucking treadmill.

Well, the 8/9 hours a day I, and many others, spend at work aren't nearly as emotionally rewarding as enjoying a good game or other distraction. You must have got some kind of enjoyment out of it during that time?

-- Free Playstation 3, Wii and XBox 360 [free-toys.co.uk]

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[brkello]

I played for a couple of years... but man... what's the point?

Going out on a limb here...but fun?

For the non-hardcore it just replace time sitting in front of the TV.

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[maglor_83]

If it sucks so much, why did you keep playing for a couple of YEARS?!

The sequel looks better

[Mr. Sketch]

I heard that in the upcoming sequel to WoW you will get to control a character who plays WoW, it's called World of World of Warcraft. Here's the announcement:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play [theonion.com]

Congratulations!

[BZWingZero]

Achievement unlocked: No life. Achievement value: 1000

Re:Congratulations!

[jonaskoelker]

But how do you kill that which has no life?

Lovecraft might disaggree ;)

[Moraelin]

"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange æons even death may die"

So....?

[Stickerboy]

This is just another resource you grind for in the game, from Gold to Honor to Arena Points and Arena Rating to Tokens in instance drops. I think any innovation would have to be in the rewards, like introducing a Traits or Perks system like in Fallout. More raid gear equivalents as a reward would be redundant... you can get that simply by endless losing in Battlegrounds.

From the attention list though, it looks like they're focusing on casual players... "Super Quest Dude", various quest chains, etc. That's a welcome addition for those of us that don't have endless hours to play every day.

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[NewbieProgrammerMan]

Somehow I get the feeling that, a short time after the expansion comes out, it will be just like it is now. Every time I step into a PvP event, I'll be facing a team of basement-dwellers that can (somehow) afford to grind rep/honor/arena points/badges 20 hours a day, so they're wearing the best possible gear in the game. Every time I'm out trying to quest, similar people with winning personalities will take great pleasure in blasting the shit out of me with their tier-whatever or uber-gladiator gear, with

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[markov_chain]

I know, someone should create a WoW fork for nice people... they could call it DikuWoW *rimshot*

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[Anonymous Coward]

You should be playing on a non-PvP server then.

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[TheSpoom]

Everyone will want the coveted +5, Troll award.

*snort*

[OMNIpotusCOM]

Congratulations on using "In soviet Russia..." joke without getting tagged off-topic.

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[TheSpoom]

Yay new achievement!

Re:Why not Slashdot?

[Nefarious Wheel]

Everyone will want the coveted +5, Troll award.

I play an Orc, you insensitive clod!

For the obsessive compulsive...

[Forcepath]

100% completionists among us, this is one reason why I absolutely have to stay away from WotLK. ..if it's true that is. Even so, this feels like a poor attempt at adding content to make the game feel like less of a grind.

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[bonehead]

Actually, it looked like it would add even more grind to the game. It was all "Do random mundane task X million times".

There are enjoyable aspects to WoW, but in my experience, the farther along you get, the more boring it gets. I've been playing for about 2 years now, and haven't even got one char to 70. In fact, my account is currently inactive, and I've not decided if I'll pay it up again. I'm halfway through lvl 65 and just that half of a level has taken me over 4 months. There are things I'm looki

hey a rumor about a minor addition to a game

[hlomas]

let's make a post about it!

Some Possible Achievements

[Bwana Geek]

- Bathed
- Went outside
- Eyes adjusted to natural light
- Talked about something not WoW-related

These achievements are also rumoured to be coming to the D&D 4th Edition.

Good idea

[Moraelin]

Yay, I'm off to grind bathing until it becomes grey, and then move on to the next on the list ;)

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[Hoi Polloi]

Eeeeew!

Too bad you just lost a huge amount of reputation points in all factions.

Its basically the system in Lotro

[unity100]

Deed thingies. if you played lotro, you'd know.

That exists in Guild Wars for ages

[Vapula]

In Guild Wars, you already have that system for a long time...
- Cartographer titles (exploring more than X% of the territory)
- Survivor title (reaching level 20 without dying)
- Lucky/Unlucky (related to random events like lottery or keeping/losing lockpick kits)
- Protector (having done all the "cooperative missions" (like the instances) with their bonus
- Drunk title (for being drunk more than x minutes)
and so on...

There are also meta-titles (like for having all protector titles), PvP titles, ...

When you're

New achievement: "The poop sock award"

[syn1kk]

Blizzard would like to congratulate you for spending at least 1 year of man hours or 2920 hours. As a token of appreciation, we have changed your subscription cost to be X percent less expensive and we have sent you a complimentary pair of socks for ... your needs. ...

Congratulations.

p.s. please look for our new game called "world of world of warcraft" ( http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play [theonion.com] ) we know you don't have any life... i mean... we know you will like it.

Witty Comment...

[dontPanik]

Actually I don't have a witty comment. I am going to try to get all of these achievements.

My son loves WSG and Battlegrounds

[WillAffleckUW]

Personally, I don't get why spending 100 hours fighting combats that prove nothing other than your ability to log on when the Alliance is low on twinks and the Horde is strong makes anyone feel they've accomplished anything.

It's like those useless combat awards I got in the Army - half are for things that anyone can do ...

Achievement met!!! You earn.....

[Dreamsleep]

I leveled to 15 without dying! What achievement did I unlock??

um.... the give that guy a cookie achievement?

Rumor and not a big deal

[Avatar8]

First and foremost, this is a rumor. As the FA suggests, it could be a doctored screen since "PvP" is listed twice and having a title like "Quest Dude" is not in keeping with Blizzard's style.

Even if it does get implemented, I don't see this as a system for "grinding." I also play LotRO on those rare occasions when I don't feel like playing WoW. Yes, this appears to be exactly like the Deeds system. In LotRO those are not achievements you intentionally pursue; they're objectives that you just happen to complete while you're playing, or you might complete most of them and discover "If I visit that one last farm, I'll get X." I'd see this having the same effect in WoW. I doubt the rewards for such easily achievable tasks would be great either, just like in LotRO. They're beneficial, but they're not game altering or anything that you cannot play without.

Regardless, we'll keep playing with or without any rewards because playing the game and having a good time is the reward.

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