With more MMOs implementing ‘achievement’ systems, and obviously the XBL & PSN systems, there are some pretty good examples out there of what a game can do to encourage longevity-through-minutiae.

What bothers me about both the Warhammer & WoW systems is that both have gone the route of making achievements character-specific rather than account-specific. This strikes me as particularly odd because both games actually really encourage you to roll new characters as often as you’d like. And in a game that encourages trying out all of the character classes, why on earth would you want to put in a system that discourages that very activity?

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