Spread to smithereens a hundred pigeons all over Liberty City and get a medal for it? Yes that's right! This is exactly how the gaming achievement system works in many modern games. Another question is why this is necessary, because even inveterate gamblers sometimes find it difficult to give the correct question to this answer.
Many modern computer games have an achievement system in which points can be earned by fulfilling various conditions of the game. Currently, there are three platforms that support game achievements: personal computer (Steam and Games for Windows - Live), Xbox Live and PlayStation 3 (only here they are called trophies). There are also built-in achievement systems, for specific games like World of Warcraft, for example. Achievements are mandatory and absolute. For example, in the game Grand theft auto IV, as many as seven achievements are credited to the player's account only for completing story missions. On the other hand, only a true fan will be able to run through all the nooks and crannies of the entire game city to find two hundred tiny pigeons - this is an optional condition for completing the game, but the player will also receive an achievement badge for it. Traditionally, it is believed that achievements give the player the opportunity to use some hidden functions and the capabilities of the game or game character. In fact, such opportunities are fully used only in one game - Team Fortress 2. Here, for certain achievements, you can get new types of weapons or uniforms, which entails a change in tactics and strategy of the game, as well as a new qualification level of the player. Nevertheless, in some games such opportunities are represented by some specific achievements. In the aforementioned GTA IV, for example, having received the corresponding achievement, you can earn money by taxi cabs. Today, achievements and trophies of the virtual world are primarily an opportunity to increase the level of self-importance. A player with a large number of "achievements" gets more attention, his advice is more often listened to, his opinion has some meaning and he certainly will not be called a noob. On the other hand, the lack of achievements does not in any way affect the personality of the player himself, and therefore the gamer himself must answer the question whether they are needed or not.
