360-esque achievements could head to World of Warcraft

by Justin McElroy on Jun 10th 2008 8:40AM

It's a common complaint you hear from World of Warcraft fans: "I love the 14 to 16 hours per day I spend in front of the computer followed by an hour of self-loathing and crying myself to sleep, but the game's just not addictive enough." If some leaked screens from the Wrath of the Lich King alpha are to be believed, Blizzard could be answering that very concern with a new "Achievements" system.

As some of you know, Lord of the Rings Online already has a similar system in place, which rewards players for sitting next to pretend Aragorn in the Prancing Pony and pretending to listen to him spin yarns for 20 minutes, etc. We can't wait to see how Blizzard can compete with that.

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Tags: blizzard, Mac, PC, world-of-warcraft, wow, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Reader Comments (55)

But World of Warcraft already is an achievement system. That's pretty much the whole game. Between quests, reputation, honor, battleground marks, experience, and skill points, there's very little that isn't already being measured. The whole point of achievements was to introduce an element of persistent advancement into games that didn't already have it. This really seems genuinely stupid. But at the same time achievements are a take it or leave it proposition, so if you don't care about them, they don't affect you.