I’m going to get plucked and roasted alive for saying this, but as of last night, Eve Online jumped on the achievement bandwagon with it’s latest expansion Quantum Rise. It’s not a flashy system like WAR or WoW and it’s not even called achievements…they’re called Certificates. When I first logged in last night to take a quick look, my first reaction was, “ohhhhh nooooo…this is baaaad.” and by “baaad”, I mean good. Instead of trying to figure out my skill goals by browsing forums or using EveMon, I now have the Certificate system to a) tell me how much I suck, and b) help me with goals in game. This is a big hit with me and I’m sure it’ll be huge with new players.
I’m glad CCP has decided to give players some kind of achievement system (…commence plucking…), and they are doing it their way. There is no visual goodies or even a “ding” sound when you get an certificate. Actually, you don’t even know you have one until you go to the Certificate Planner and “claim” your certificate. Very Eve-like. They’ve put in this type of game play without it making it feel like they borrowed it from another game. I’m looking at YOU Blizzard! In other words…they made an achievements-like system that is their own. I’m just patiently waiting for EQ2 to do something along these lines…although, it can be argued that it has it already.
Anyway…good stuff in Eve Online with regards to the patch. Now I just have to make some ISK for that Titan 
D out.
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November 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Welcome back to EVE, when did you start playing again?
November 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
So they made it theirs by hiding it?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
@ Blue: about a week ago I think
@ Werit: Since when does Eve put anything out in front of you to grab onto
November 13th, 2008 at 9:46 am
It could also easily be argued that out of all MMOs out, EVE needs SOMETHING to direct player actions the most. I think having something like this, which is basically in the background, is a great step to adding another layer of motivation in EVE.
November 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
This was one of the items that came out of the first CSM meeting with CCP. Also the idea was spawned by player corps who help train noob players to EVE, I myself was lucky to find a noob-corp shortly after joining EVE that had skill plans very close to the “Certificate” not built into EVE.