What ever happened to awarding laurels for achievements?
Posted Jun 5, 2013, 12:16 AM UTC
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I am pretty sure they were considering giving laurels for achievements, and do it retroactively. No information on whether they discarted the idea or not, tho.
To do this they have to first introduce some extremely expensive items only available with laurels, as laurels are already overbudant for some players, and the the sudden gain of laurels due to retroactivity would just make as useless as Fractal Relics.
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They do.
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Uhh.. they are only gotten through achievements. They were always supposed to be only daily and monthly.
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I was under the impression they capped infinite achievements because of the leaderboards. Although, I'm not brushing off the possibility that it could have been for both.
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i think that makes sense as well. since laurels were first introduced, we were never given more details on how and when we would be able to specifically obtain laurels through the accumulation of achievement points (apart dailies and monthlies). and even back then, the idea was rather vague.
that being said, i never read it as a one laurel per achievement type of deal.. but rather, maybe a laurel for x amount of achievement points racked up. in this way, people who miss out on certain achievements due to living story or what not continually changing and disappearing, won't feel cheated out of a laurel. and there are still a ton of ways to rack up points.. just a thought.
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Never heard them say they were going to give laurels. My understanding was it would be a system similar to Hall of monuments rewards, where you reach a certain amount of achievement points to unlock the next set of rewards. Laurels for 1-time only achievements would be silly.
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The trinity is gone. Now it's all zerker! in all seriousness, you need to keep yourself alive. That in itself removes the trinity. There is no dedicated healer, or support. Yes there are tanky characters, but everyone needs to pull their own weight in terms of surviving and damage.
The scavenger hunt has ALWAYS been planned as a future thing. NOT ONCE have the EVER stated that it would be coming out... at any date really.
As for the achievement system. That will come out eventually. It is a separate currency to laurels, probably because there will be other rewards tied to them.
I am disappointed too that these rewards have not come out yet, but, just like the scavenger hunt, they will in time.
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I forgot about the scavenger hunt. They were probably hoping you would too!
Hey, you get panda hats though, right? That's super cool! Double-luck fun time!
Little
bitty
ears...... :3
Makes me wish I could team kill in this game. I would rampage through Lions Arch.
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They never said that they will exchange Achievement Points for Laurels. There's a totally new system under development.
This is the lastest info we know about it: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Rewards-from-TOTAL-Achievement-Points/first#post2099864
I'm pretty sure they said something about rewarding achievement points with laurels few months ago.
You're referring to this, and it doesn't actually state laurels will be the rewards for total achievement points: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/January-2013-Flame-and-Frost-prelude-Merged-Discussion/page/2#post1264140
No other information regarding it besides what's in this thread, though.
Great... even more Skinner boxes for gw. Tbh this is disturbing news. What happened to sustainable intrinsic motivations in this game?
"Rewards" != "Skinner boxes". Seriously, that phrase means something, look it up.
really hate cox boxes.