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Bring Back Achievements, Make them Collectible

passıon·8/22/2015, 7:43:22 PM·2 votes·360 views

I believe that we should bring back Achievements because they were never actually implemented. I think that they would be a great re-addition for a number of reasons.

Section i - Achievements I believe that we should restore the Achievements tab because it was never really put to use. At the same time, it would be a golden opportunity to give a lot of excitement to the game. Show off your Achievements to your friends, and help them acquire them. These achievements can range from simple achievements like

"Tampered Bots" - Win an intermediate Co Op vs AI game "Not even close!" Successfully recall to base while starting at 70 HP Max

To long-term more difficult achievements such as

"Nobody Escapes" Successfully land 100 Thresh Death Sentences

These achievements are always fun to unlock. But that's not all there is to it. What if these achievements came with rewards?

Section ii - Rewards So the achievements could also come with interesting rewards. I'm thinking sort of like a cash-in system.

So say you unlocked the first achievement listed "Tampering with the Bots". That achievement would get you 5 Achievement points (or AP for short). Now with this AP comes the rewards. For every 100 AP you get, you earn 200 IP. Harder rewards, more AP.

Section iii - Special Achievements Now say you unlock a really hard achievement, that took you a really long time to get. Doesn't seem fun getting 50 AP for such a difficult achivement. So what I came up with is "Special Achievements" These achievements consist of very difficult and long-term achievements that actually give you other rewards than AP. Some of those Achievements could be:

"Stance Master" - Participate in at least 50 kills on Udyr, in EACH of his stances = 1 refund token "Perfect Assassin" Win a game with at least 20 kills, and have 0 deaths on an assassin champion. = 100 RP "Perfect accuracy" Land 15 skillshots in a row on enemy champions = 200 RP

So in conclusion, I believe that achievements would be a great addition to the game as a system of entertainment as well as a way to reward players for their efforts in them. It could easily replace the "Spells" tab as it really has no purpose to the game.

Any Questions, concerns, or other feedback? Leave a comment in the section below.

4 Comments

Starlight Knight9/2/2015, 2:24:08 PM1 votes

+1

This is a cool idea!

Scary Door9/2/2015, 2:33:31 PM1 votes

In principle this is a reasonable idea, but I can easily imagine the toxicity that something like this would create.

You would have a fair number of games where individuals would simply be achievement farming. It's hard enough to get your average player to work as a team as it is, but then throw in the idea of a person simply looking to get kills or farm minions and you have the recipe for toxicity soup.

I already witnessed something like this on a very small level during the Bilgewater event when one of the "quests" required you to kill minions on the Butcher's Bridge map. People who had never played an ARAM before were there simply to kill minions and didn't really care if they fed, weren't contributing or what have you as long as they got their minions. Some players would even achieve their goal during the game and then AFK.

Unfortunately, like many good ideas conceived by well-meaning folks, the League community would most certainly find a way to ruin them.

SmokedAlmonds9/2/2015, 3:03:59 PM1 votes

No thanks. Achievements interfere with the game. You have people running around trying to get w/e achievement instead of trying to win.

We saw this happen with the bligewater event. I had several games ruined by people who were clearly only there to kill 500 minions or w/e the quest had you do.