With Achievements, Who Needs Friends
I was looking at the Team Fortress 2 Achievement page and noticed something I thought was little weird. More people have gotten the “Milestone 2” achievement (24 Medic Achievements) than the “With Friends Like these…” achievement (Play on a team of 8 made up of only players from your friends list.) with 4.4% and 4.3%, respectively. These just barely knocked out “Chief of Staff” (Accumulate 1 million heal points) at 4.0%. The least achieved one, excluding “Milestone 3”, is the “Family Practice” achievement (ÜberCharge ten of your Steam Community Friends). Sad lot, we gamers, eh?
07 Jun 2008
Heh, that is sad. I think the problem is most gamers are set to be the best and fail to realize the real joy is the social gathering. *frown*
09 Jun 2008
Wow I got that achievement a while back I didn’t know it was so hard for people to have friends. Then again if they joined OWS they would make a lot of friends in no time.If interested click on the link —> and then click on uncle sam when on the front page.
03 Aug 2008
Achievements annoy the crap out of me. I think they are probably one of the worst inventions in gaming yet. The fact that you can actually affect gameplay in TF2 with certain achievements strikes me as self-defeating. But that’s me; you know, the guy who HATES GW titles too…
-M