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Easy Achievements Can Increase Sales [27939]

 
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:50 pm    Post subject: Easy Achievements Can Increase Sales [27939] Reply with quote
In this interview Gearbox\'s Randy Pitchford suggests that developers can increase their sales by up to 40,000 units by making Achievement whoring easier.

\uot;The Achievement hunter, who\'s going to make purchase decisions around the Achievements per minute to ratio - he\'s probably buying ten to twenty titles a

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I tend to not bother with achievements at all, they tend to be pointless, since so far from my experience, the only game that gives you anything for getting the achievement is Mass Effect, the other games don't give you anything for use in the game, its just a 'hey, i did this' type of thing.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
achievments are about as important to me as the crap i leave in the toilet.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wait...you leave it...you dont flush....oooooo Shocked
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