Top of the Leaderboards
There is perhaps nothing worse than the trophies and achievements that effectively require a player to get to the top of the leaderboard. While this is rarely seen, popular titles such as The Elder Scrolls Online require average users to do the impossible. Achievements and trophies are meant to be challenging, however asking players to dominate the leaderboards is virtually impossible.
This requires users to put an ungodly amount of hours into the game while playing perfectly in virtually every match. Not to mention, there are always hackers or glitch abusers people will have to worry about, which makes this reward even harder to obtain. No game should ever ask its fans to be the very best like no one ever was if they want to gain a platinum trophy.
While collecting achievements and trophies can be a highly fun and rewarding experience, there are some that just ruin it. It’s important to balance challenge and fairness, which sadly isn’t always the case for a lot of titles. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to get back to our no-kill run in Dishonored 2.
