Do what I do. Ignore them. I go out of my way for very few trophies.

Trophies/Achievements are the best invention of this generation if you ask me. They create a sense of playing a game within a game. They are the ultimate social game where you are trying to increase your score(a staple of almost every early arcade game). I mean if you want to argue semantics what is the point of playing any game with a point system? For that matter whats the point of playing games at all?? BECAUSE ITS FUN!!!!

Trophies make the simple fact you are playing a game feel like it is one step closer to perfection(or at least being higher level than your friends ;P ). They also add much longevity to games that would normally become unplayable after one go or simply didn't have replay value. Take the first Uncharted for example. I played it once before trophies, no inclination to go back to it. Trophies gave me incentive to return and put countless more hours into it just to get that shiny virtual nugget which would extend beyond just that one game.

And although playing Barbie is kind of desperate in order to get a virtual reward, as horrible as that game is, I think this adds more purpose. That means the game which wasn't worth buying all of a sudden found worth. THis is a good thing, at least for devs. Word to the Wise, if you are going to put out a shitty game at least make the trophies/achievements fun and easily obtainable.

This sir is the power of Trophies!!!! I personally refused to buy any game without them anymore(last game I did was Valkyria Chronicles and it was great but wish it had Trophies in order to extend its gameplay). Love the fact Vita will have them too, meaning wherever I go I have to opportunity to keep building my score :D

I love/hate trophies.

I generally don't go for trophies, Im like level 10, with over a thousand trophies, but not a single Platnum. I had all but 2 in Uncharted (Beat the game on Hard and expert) and the Same with Call of Duty World at War (my second attempt at a platnum. I pulled all my hair out, trying to beat that game on Veteran, its just sick)

I gave up trophy hunting after world at war, nothing will be able to cure me from that pain.

i love all trophies....i hate not getting nothing special for collection a million gems or whatever u know the deal collecting stuff lol

i love trophies, i love collecting points trophies and stuff that says i have done something.. it makes me feel like i have achieved something *duh*

ofc there will allways be *some* achievements or trophies unlocked wether u like it or not.. but yeah i don't normally start *collecting* the achievements/trophies that actually requires some skills until after i have finished the game once and focused on the actual story of the game and enjoyed that part to the fullest, after that i start and look at achievements and trophies.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau