This has been a long discussed subject, even i for one, turn off all acheivements/badges and other progression rewarders to make us stay in the game. To compound this some folks share their platinum trophies online , some games just give out trophies for Grind.
I mean there are some good trophies for scoping out really good hidden stuff. But most of it is just plain fillers, there are trophies for doing mundane things which you will eventually do , like getting on a horse for example.
This has been the same with gamification of all internet, stackoverflow is a classic example ., many moderators i used to love left because of how caustic it has become.
Some of my colleagues tried introducing Gamification to an Insurance providers customer facing portal . The hilarity that ensued when a user got a badge "RoadRash" when they claimed a vehicle insurance ! Needless to say it was pulled down very quickly after beta.
The day github introduces gamification is when i will quit and go to become a scuba instructor or something !
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This has been a long discussed subject, even i for one, turn off all acheivements/badges and other progression rewarders to make us stay in the game. To compound this some folks share their platinum trophies online , some games just give out trophies for Grind.
I mean there are some good trophies for scoping out really good hidden stuff. But most of it is just plain fillers, there are trophies for doing mundane things which you will eventually do , like getting on a horse for example.
This has been the same with gamification of all internet, stackoverflow is a classic example ., many moderators i used to love left because of how caustic it has become.
Some of my colleagues tried introducing Gamification to an Insurance providers customer facing portal . The hilarity that ensued when a user got a badge "RoadRash" when they claimed a vehicle insurance ! Needless to say it was pulled down very quickly after beta.
The day github introduces gamification is when i will quit and go to become a scuba instructor or something !