Poll: achivement systems

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Live is creating a problem more than anything else. Why? Because it makes people play games which are horrible just for the achievements, thus encouraging devs to pour out more bad games because they'll know that as long as they add tons of achievements, they'll be fine.

What is that old saying? A fool and his money are soon parted. If every game on the market starts turning out like Avatar the Last Airbender then we can start worrying. Frankly I haven't seen any decline in quality since the introduction of Live though so I think your worries are completely unfounded. Infact it has been quite the opposite with games like Batman and Borderlands hitting the shelves 3 years after the introduction of achievements.

I'm just saying that we've opened a gate which shouldn't be open. It shouldn't be possible to earn money just by adding achievements.

It is their money. If people want to play an easy game for an easy 1000 let them have their fun. It wasn't like these games didn't exist before achievements came out. It isn't like those extra (what did Gearbox guy say 40 -60 thousand?) are going to impact the industry that relies on millions of sales. And that is if the number is anywhere near accurate since most easy achievement hunters rent not buy.