Guild firsts and guild achievements.
They’re awesome when guilds can tick them off a list of “To Do’s” (perhaps located on their website), and then pat themselves collectively on the back and say, “Hey guys, we achieved that… well done, everyone…”
But they’re less awesome when forums fill up with constant spam posts from guilds, absolutely desperate to claim things in a way that makes me worry whether I’ve selected the server with the most under-15s by mistake.
Worse still, a lot of these so-called firsts are just that: so-called. A guild will finish a particular quest series or raid or something and if they haven’t heard of anyone else doing it, they’ll go and claim it for themselves.
What you find, however, is there are often other guilds on the same server, which have already done that same thing, but either don’t use the game’s forums or, if they do, just don’t care about promoting their firsts.
Which means a lot of so-called firsts aren’t even “firsts” at all.
How will Beskar approach this topic when it comes to TOR? Simple. We aren’t an achievement-driven guild. By which I mean, we will have our achievements, without doubt, but we won’t be driven to pulling all-nighters for the first week of TOR’s release so we can breathlessly announce to a forum community (which, frankly, won’t care less), that we did, “xyz” first.
I mean, who cares about that stuff once they get beyond about 15 years of age, anyway?
it would be good if BW kept track of these things. Then there would be some Hall of Fame we could direct people to if they are interested.
But there might be Guild-specific achievements, like large Guild Halls or even Capital Ships which would be cool to have for their own sake and thus well worth the effort.
I like winning I really do, but if I’m not in a LAN or doing some psychical sport, I don’t see the big deal about telling the rest of a uncaring world about what you just did.
I thouht WoWs achievement system was ridiculous. It was nice that certain things you did were now trackable, but it struck me as A profound waste of tome. On Blozzards part, brilliant though – get people to grind for things even more worthless than purples. 90% worthless for players but like cash in the bank for Blizzard.
wow went overboard with achievment titles and so one.. 1sts 2nds etc…something I’ve noticed, many a tiem it seems some company’s use achievements as an excuse for bad or lack of programming. On the bright side bioware is well known for solid programming and QC. When there is no content and you go to your achievement lsit and say..hmm lets see what oddball pat on the back do we want to give a try.. I’d rather have the better game content.