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by Amanda Miller 
Mar 12th 2009 at 1:00PM
Every now and then, I hear through the grapevine that in the future, we will be able to spend our Achievement Points on, most likely, novelty items. This rumor has been around since Achievements were announced, and has even been mentioned by a blue or two. Unfortunately, it seems that implementing this is far from being in the works. Bornakk has confirmed that Achievement Points are "simply a marker of progression in the game" and that there are no current plans to work in a way to spend them.
How do you feel about this? Personally, I was hoping for the eventual vendor selling items like walking canes, pinwheel hats and walking-speed pogo sticks. Still, not being able to spend my points will not stop me from collecting them!
Filed under: RP, Rumors, Achievements
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 5)
WoWie Zowie Mar 12th 2009 2:04PM
and the spectral tiger sux too
QQ
Ozymandias Mar 12th 2009 1:09PM
To me, spending your points defeats the purpose of getting the points in the first place. (I like having a high score, well kinda high.) Don't we have enough currencies in the game?
Dightkuz Mar 12th 2009 1:29PM
Agree, I'd rather see rewards from gaining higher achievement points.
vazhkatsi Mar 12th 2009 3:02PM
they should add another requirement to the insane title.
- gain 5000 achievement points
McRaider Mar 12th 2009 1:10PM
Novelty items!!!!
Gossamer Mar 12th 2009 1:23PM
Shoot, I was really hoping I could get something for these points I've been accumulating. It won't stop me from doing most of the achievements, but I'd be a lot more likely to the ones I don''t particularly care for (such as the PvP achievements) if I knew I'd get some sort of reward for doing it.
I figured they'd add things you could buy that you get from achievements anyway, such as pets, titles and silly items.
paul.marsico Mar 12th 2009 1:13PM
I want to be able to bribe Devs with them to stop pooping in paper bags and calling it content.
Burlann Mar 14th 2009 10:27PM
I don't care if you agree with Paul or not,
That is friggen FUNNY!
Belligerent Mar 12th 2009 1:15PM
Achievement points are NOT a currency! They are a SCORE! You can't spend your hi-score in PAC-MAN, why would you be able to here?
I spend a month trying to explain this to my guild: " Hey look a a number that increases! It must be currency! Whaaaa, I can't spend it!"
Certain achievements unlock items/tabbards. I'm good with that. But not as a currency.
Gossamer Mar 12th 2009 1:25PM
Think of them as a rating. I don't agree with "spending" points, but we already have a rating system in WoW that functions how I think this should. The higher your achievement "score" the more items you have available for purchase using gold.
bmiller Mar 12th 2009 1:16PM
Can I get an achievement for 4,000 Achievement points? That would be cool. :)
Unknown Mar 12th 2009 1:17PM
It would be nice to have something like a different Armor Skin or a different color that's available wit the Achievements so it separates you from others instead of all people wearing much the same.
Amaxe Mar 12th 2009 1:19PM
I think as currency, no. As getting an award for reaching a certain point? Sure. Perhaps it could reflect some sort of fame in the world affecting how NPCs react to you. A person with 5000 points has certainly done a helluva lot in Azeroth for example (I have 3500 so this isn't self serving), smashed a lot of famous instances and slain dangerous creatures.
That's what i would like to see anyway
Skya Mar 12th 2009 1:21PM
The suggestion that I have always touted is that our standard bag should be increased by 2 slots for every 1500 achievement points that you accumulate. It would scale nicely with levelling and solve the old problem that we have with not being able to replace our original bag.
1500 points – 18 slot bag
3000 points – 20 slots
4500 points – 22 slots
6000 points – 24 slots
7500 points – 26 slots
Just an idea but it'll even help increase the default bag size for those not interested in achievement points, most people will have 1500 points by the time they hit 80 even if they're not going for achievements.
Tzi Mar 12th 2009 1:42PM
Let's not get hung up on the semantics of "spent." I don't think most expected people to spend achievement points in the truest sense (as you would currency), but Blizzard themselves alluded to the fact that in the future, your achievement points would grant you access to unique items. I don't see any reason to assume, should they implement this, that it wouldn't be any different than the way to "buy" items with rep: having a certain amount allows you access to items you wouldn't otherwise, even if the points themselves are not being exchanged for the goods.
Caustik Mar 12th 2009 1:22PM
Pets, tabards, titles and mounts are, imho, "carrotish" enough.
Besides that, I hate achievements - I'm trying to do the loremaster ones and they are quite painful :/
Erogroth Mar 12th 2009 1:23PM
Rather then spending the points I would rather see the items require you to have a certain amount of points in order to buy them either for gold or for free. I don't want to loose the achievement points cause as you said it is a marker of your achievements. So for example if you have 1000 achievement points you can buy the pogo stick for 10 gold. If you have 50000 achievement points you get a free neon orange proto-drake.
Mork Mar 12th 2009 1:25PM
Think of achievement points like a personal arena rating once you get the right amount of points you'd be able to buy "novelty" items with gold or some other currency, or at least that is how I think it should be done.
Divni Mar 12th 2009 1:37PM
I keep getting amazed by the fact that people intentionally collect achievement points..
I don't collect them for the same reason I never went for the coins in Mario games; "Who gives a fuck?"
KhelArk Mar 12th 2009 1:49PM
Achievements have given me an excuse to do a lot of really fun things that I might never have otherwise done, or known about.
Without achievements, I would never sneak my Forsaken Priest into the Stockades, or into the Ironforge fishing spot. I'd never get to hear the noises the Mechanical Chicken makes, and I'd never find out all the WPL/EPL lore. I probably never would have gotten a Netherwing Drake, and I definitely would have ignored all the holidays.
In fact, I think if it less like the coins in Super Mario Brothers, and more like the bananas in Donkey Kong Country -- some you get just to run up your score, but some also direct you toward Secret Bonus Barrels!