Rah wrote:Ok. But how does not getting the achievement affect you?
I mean...are you jealous that other people can get it and you can't? Do you WANT this achievement?
I feel like subeta is catering to some minority players here...purely because there is very little else for the minority to do.
I'm not sure how many people you're going to win over with the "Oh, the poor rich players! They have it so hard. Whatever will they do?" argument. Call me crazy but I'm of the opinion that if you have hundreds of millions of sP you can do pretty much whatever the hell you want. I'd say they have
more things to do than everyone else.
I don't post a hundred times a day on the forums. In fact, I haven't posted there at all since I got my 100th post to get into the Blue Building. I don't spend a lot in the cash shop and I never post in news posts. As a result, I'm not a very visible player, and I'm certainly not one of the "subeta elite". But I spend a lot of time on the site, more than I can explain or probably should. I feel like a loyal player. When Achievements like "be the richest user" are released over things like "be a member for three years" or whatever, I don't feel important. I feel like just because I'm not a "popular" user with a lot of flashy wealth, I'm not an important user. That's how not getting the Achievement affects me.
I agree with everything Ty said. It's super irritating to have to scroll past a bunch of greyed-out boxes every day and know that I'll never blue them in. And yes, I understand they aren't
technically impossible, but let's all be honest: the vast majority of us will never, ever get them. Ever.
EVER. It's like taking a starving person to a grocery store and making them look but not letting them touch. "Oh, look. I bet you'd like that, hey? Yeah, it's right there! Niiiiice. BUT NOT FOR YOU."
I'm also not buying that creating a richest user achievement gives those members something else to do for longer than a few minutes, if that's really the goal. Have lots of money, click, be acknowledged for having lots of money. Hours of fun!
If you're having trouble keeping the wealthy users entertained, maybe the solution should be to add new features, not tiny additions to an existing feature. Why not create pet spotlights, or user lookup spotlights? Something that will require at least few days' work. That gives all players, rich or otherwise, something to do. You don't
have to spend a lot of money to create a great story for your pets and fill their treasures with interesting things, but obviously you could. It's open to everyone and requires more of a commitment than simply looking at your big pile of money and clicking. Why not add features like those and create achievements for them? I'd much rather be motivated to get creative than just get ridiculously rich.
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