User blog:Roads/Why Achievements Just Won't Work

Yeah, I'm bringing this back up. Look at the leaderboard. The lowest person has over 2,000 points. Do you know how long it took me to get half that? The numbers keep climbing, and everyone will keep going for what will feel like forever to get that many. When I joined, I thought 2,000 was awesome. Now it gets to around 7,000. Remember Syndrome's quote from The Incredibles? "...and when everyone's super (evil laugh) no one will be." Eeeeexactly. And also, "Everyone's special, Dash." "(muttering) Which is just another way of saying no one is."

So yeah. Achievements are great at first, but as numbers climb, it gets too much.

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