LogFAQs > #925540520

I'm fine with trophies being locked behind ridiculously tedious and difficult tasks that most people would never bother to do because of how boring it is. Some people are obsessive compulsively willing to do that. The trophy's just there to prove they did it.

The real problem is when the trophy also has significantly awesome additional game content locked behind it that most players would want to play, but don't want to deal with a crazy near impossible task to do it. Especially when it's required to compete in online multiplayer modes. Then it's just fucking trolling by the devs and they should be smacked with a steel chair.

I'm sorry, NO, from a development/consumer perspective that's not okay. It's an obnoxiously geeky thing to do. It's a huge waste, because 95% of your game's players are never going to touch that part of your game because you decided to pointlessly cater to only the "hardcore" basement dwellers. It might as well be crazy expensive DLC that costs 4x more than the copy of the game because barely anyone's going to want to bother with that.

If you want your game to explode into mainstream popularity: learn to cater to casuals more often. That means throwing in some challenges, but not braindead marathon tasks that take hours of sweaty repetition and unhealthy eye strain. It's supposed to be just a game, not a lifestyle.
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