Is a 100% account worth it?

[DaivRules]

8 minutes ago, kevao97 said:

There is a completionist leaderboard on psn trophy leaders, isnt?

 

No idea, I've never been there.

[KennethMcCormick]

"Profiles are based on four principles: 100%, 100%, 100% and 100%."

     - Gandhi

 

"I learned to plat as a baby and I haven't had a 99% since."

     - Marilyn Monroe

 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 100% not a game into their profile, but climbeth up the leaderboard some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."

     - Jesus Christ

 

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to 100%… So other people would also get 100%."

     - Rosa Parks

 

"Nefertari keeps calling me a n00b because I don't have a 100% profile."

     - Ramesses II

 

"There's more to 100% than being a gamer."

     - Amelia Earhart

 

"The supreme art of gaming is to 100%ing the game without platting."

     - Sun Zi

 

"100% for all! 100% for all! 100% for All!"

     - Louise Michel

 

"If only I had tried for a 100%, I wouldn't have had time to endorse a shitty cult."

     - Steve Jobs

 

"100% is gone. 100% has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

     - Mother Teresa

... or you could not give a shit . Your choice.
 

[me_is_caveman]

1 minute ago, KennethMcCormick said:

"Profiles are based on four principles: 100%, 100%, 100% and 100%."

     - Gandhi

 

"I learned to plat as a baby and I haven't had a 99% since."

     - Marilyn Monroe

 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 100% not a game into their profile, but climbeth up the leaderboard some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."

     - Jesus Christ

 

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to 100%… So other people would also get 100%."

     - Rosa Parks

 

"Nefertari keeps calling me a n00b because I don't have a 100% profile."

     - Ramesses II

 

"There's more to 100% than being a gamer."

     - Amelia Earhart

 

"The supreme art of gaming is to 100%ing the game without platting."

     - Sun Zi

 

"100% for all! 100% for all! 100% for All!"

     - Louise Michel

 

"If only I had tried for a 100%, I wouldn't have had time to endorse a shitty cult."

     - Steve Jobs

 

"100% is gone. 100% has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

     - Mother Teresa

... or you could not give a shit . Your choice.
 

You forgot one quote:

"It is an outrage that in this country 99% of the 100% games are going to the top 1% of gamers!"

- Bernie Sanders

[MrJAMBA]

I can only speak for myself, but having a 100% profile is fun. I've always gamed that way, even before trophies existed. I dont avoid games for any reason. I just buy games ill enjoy and I 100% them.

 

People will whine and say its not worth it, but as with anything in life, their opinions are empty if you're doing what you wanna do.

[simmias]

One thing I'll add to what I said earlier: I think I've been more rewarded for my completionist mentality than I've been punished by it. Honestly, I've had some of my favorite gaming experiences because of it.

 

For example, I never would have done the Splosion Man co-op levels (sadly it's only on xbox) if there hadn't been achievements tied to them, and they're freaking fantastic. Same for the Uncharted 2 and 3 co-op missions, GTA5 doomsday heist, and more. And I've met tons of great people going for trophies and achievements like that who I still keep in touch with and game with years later.

Edited April 2, 2021 by simmias

[AJ_Radio]

It all depends on how you see it. 
 

Because I have unobtainables on my list, I can’t get 100 percent completion. 
 

Also I find many 100 percent accounts to basically pick and choose games the players think they can finish instead of putting on games where they might not obtain all the trophies.

 

I have more respect for the guy with 90 percent completion who tried out a bunch of hard games than someone with 100 percent completion who deliberately avoided certain games. 
 

There are people who avoided Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus entirely because of Mein Leben, which is completely stupid and it tells me trophies have affected them too much. 

[EDGES]

it would be worth it only if you accept that you will have a very limited amount of games on it unless you plan on giving every game 50-100 up to 200+ hours per game, in which case you will have very few games on it, or you will only have $2 no name games in which case what's the point again, 100% is a sexy goal, but it's really not practical, aiming for ~90% is reasonable

[Vern3r0z]

What bothers me most is having to buy all that shite DLC to keep my 100%

[bluemoon1987]

People do what they want but I don't get people that make new accounts just to have the 100% I much prefer to see an original 2008 account on any percentage than an account that cherry picks games they're certain they can 100%

[test-dummy-99]

30 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

*snip*

 

There are people who avoided Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus entirely because of Mein Leben, which is completely stupid and it tells me trophies have affected them too much. 

As mentioned, the experience will depend on person to person. And speaking of Wolfenstein II, this is ridiculous that people skip that game, just because of one trophy.

[RedDevil757]

No.
 

Most so called 100% accounts avoid anything of any challenge whatsoever

[DrBloodmoney]

‘Worth’ is relative, I suppose.

 

I mean, trophies are meaningless really - until you assign them meaning.
Your profile is the same - it’s value is the value you assign in it yourself.

 

The value of a 100% profile is, therefore, really a self-assessed thing.

 

On the site, of course, there is certainly some prestige to it, but most people on here understand that it can come at a terrible cost.

 

If you play whatever you want to, and manage to maintain it, then, for sure, it can be a hell of a shiny gold star.

If, however, you find you are skipping games you would enjoy just to maintain it, then it is nothing but an anchor weighing you down - and the worst thing, is that you chained yourself to it voluntarily.

 

There are folks out there (like @KennethMcCormick who commented earlier) who have basically 100% profiles (aside from the games they have on the go at any particular time) but don’t seem to avoid any kind of challenging game that appeals to them. (If they are avoiding games due to difficulty, it sure doesn’t show on their profiles.)

 

Those are serious profiles - ones to be proud of and to admire, and in those cases, the 100% is a thing of beauty.

 

But I guarantee, for every @KennethMcCormick, there are a dozen ‘faked’ ‘100% Completionist’ profiles:

Ones that are nothing more than cherry-picked lists of easy games, where the player maintains it either by having an ‘alt’ profile (which of course, in reality, is their true-profile, as that is the one where they play what they want, and not what they feel they can finish) or

-worse -

by missing out on games they would love, just because they might have unobtainable, or grindy, or difficult, or glitchy trophies.

 

Given that the one thing that we all have in common - the genesis that, however many years ago we began, set us all on a path towards meeting one another on this website - is a love of games....

...that is the most unkind of tragedies.

Edited April 2, 2021 by DrBloodmoney

[Thedah]

I go for 100% on my profile, but I hate seeing it at 100% for some reason. So as soon as I get to 100% I start a new game to get it back to 99%.

 

I also a majority of the time play only one game at a time until I 100% it. So I tend to have a huge backlog and rarely buy new games until they go on sale, so that saves me a lot of money too. The last game I bought at full price was FF7 Remake and before that I didn't buy a game at full price for at least 2 years lol

Edited April 2, 2021 by Thedah

[AN_SEALGAIR_]

I have read a few of the replies to this and I agree with almost all of them, I for one am aiming for the 100% so have slowed down on "new" and "challenging" while I fix some of the games I haven't touched in a while. That is the biggest drawback as I rarely play new right away unless I REALLY want to. Have spent most of my time cleaning up my list. 

 

Also what some have said is true I do cherry pick my games, as I do want a challenge to push myself, I don't want to waste my time with a challenge that I know is beyond my skill. 

 

I know to a lot of people my, rather small list by comparison to others, currently at 93% getting closer to that 100%, won't matter or impress anyone. But for me it's something I want to achieve and again while it's meaningless I enjoy working towards the 100%.

 

I've always had thought myself that there are at least 3 types of trophy hunters; the "completionist" going for 100% and all DLC, the "Collector" going for the high platinum count, and finally the "hunter" who goes for very specific and usually challenging games. 

[Fr_0zt]

No and honestly, don't bother with rankings, it's only tracking some players and to be up there you are gonna need many consoles, people for one account and play a shit load of garbage games.  It's just pointless. 

 

It's not worthwhile because it'll negatively affect you mentally.  Some day they'll throw some BS at you that you won't be able to beat, such as Mein Leben and that will send you into a suicidal spiral (at least I've seen some people here like that). 

 

 

Be like me.... Play and 100% what you want/ like.  Most 100% accounts are super planned, full of easy games or paid for anyway.  

[melodicmizery]

imo not worth it

but i will say this, ive had a interest in uping my completion percentage lately. with as many games as ive played ive found myself bored shitless. ive avoided rata games for years and thought id never play them. but the past year with the price they are i dove into them and they arent to bad. so i went on some binges buying fast cheap games. i then get bored of that and try to bump my leaderboards up by trying to do quick games and get bored of that. when i first started playing i didnt care about completions and ihave at least hundred games that only have one trophy on them. so ive been going back and finishing those games out of pure boredom. ill do a few ps3 games then hop back to ps4. so it all depends on the person and what your going for

its more enjoyable if you just ranomdly play games for fun. when i was just going through tons of games not caring about my percentage i had alot more fun trying a game for 5 minutes and shutting it off if i wasnt interested. now i study games before i buy them or play the and its a pain in the ass. i look to see if its a game i think i can finish or i think ill enjoy. while before i could carelessly just flick anything on. ive turned on alot of games and got 1 trophy in a game thats under 1% platinum that i will never finish without looking lol and now im stuck with those games. there is some guy on the leaderboard i forget who, he only has about 30% completion. but hes played like 1500 games. the majority of games he has he doesnt finish. he prob has more fun then most of  us. but a good completion profile does look really nice. my friend arix has alot more patience then me and i kind of admire how when he turns a game on he doesnt stop until he finishes it 100%. i even see people who have less then 50 plats that are really good gamers dedicated to finishing really hard games to get 100% so i kind of admire those gamers.

i think we have all sorts of gamers these days. trophy hunters, completeionists, people who play for fun, people who just play one game, people who try to be high on the leaderboards, people who have a disposable income to just buy a ridiculous amount of games 5 times for each title etc.

i'll be the first to admit im stupid when it comes to gaming. i waste alot of money on shit that only matters to me. but it keeps me inside and out of trouble so meh, whatever lol

[Kazduin]

I would lean towards no, mostly because you would be spending a lot of money on DLC and you would have to deal with a lot of hard trophies. That’s just my preference though, I’m perfectly fine settling for the platinum and moving on.

[HaserPL]

5 hours ago, sepheroithisgod said:

It's all about self-achievement and getting the most out of games. If you enjoy completing your games, then aim for 100%. Just keep in mind that DLC can make it an expensive goal. 

It's all good and dandy until you start lying to yourself. I know a few players who have 100% account, they all say the same shit like "OCD/perfectionism", but the very next time they start a game with some online trophies or the game is too hard, they are perfectly fine to play in on a separate account lol. So,  your OCD/Perfectionism is only temporary, and affects your main account, but not any other account? Or are you simply doing it to 'impress' others? Whenever I see someone with a 100% account, and I see their carefully handpicked games I always pity them.

[sepheroithisgod]

26 minutes ago, HaserPL said:

It's all good and dandy until you start lying to yourself. I know a few players who have 100% account, they all say the same shit like "OCD/perfectionism", but the very next time they start a game with some online trophies or the game is too hard, they are perfectly fine to play in on a separate account lol. So,  your OCD/Perfectionism is only temporary, and affects your main account, but not any other account? Or are you simply doing it to 'impress' others? Whenever I see someone with a 100% account, and I see their carefully handpicked games I always pity them.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I just play games I'm interested in. Unlike most people on this website I wish more games had multiplayer trophies and that the difficulty of AAA games went back to the PS3 era. Even before trophies were a thing, I used to aim for getting 100% in every game that had an in game tracker. It's just how I always play games.

 

I also can't imagine ever "testing" a game on another account lol

[AJ_Radio]

2 hours ago, Fr_0zt said:

No and honestly, don't bother with rankings, it's only tracking some players and to be up there you are gonna need many consoles, people for one account and play a shit load of garbage games.  It's just pointless. 

 

It's not worthwhile because it'll negatively affect you mentally.  Some day they'll throw some BS at you that you won't be able to beat, such as Mein Leben and that will send you into a suicidal spiral (at least I've seen some people here like that). 

 

 

Be like me.... Play and 100% what you want/ like.  Most 100% accounts are super planned, full of easy games or paid for anyway.  

 

At my rank, there are roughly 4 out of 5 accounts that are generally 'trophy whore' accounts. Tons of garbage which is evident by the sheer number of gold trophies and worthless stacks. I did some trophy whore stuff but found it wasn't for me and quit.

 

98 percent is still pretty high, so that's good work on your account.

[Crespelio-X12]

I would be more worried about actually playing games and platting what I love instead of a nitpick 100% list, each with their own

[Deadly_Ha_Ha]

It's worth it to me to have mine. My old account ended up being a mess, and the enjoyment of adding games to it stopped being there when I realized that the account would never match my increasing devotion to finishing the projects I started. I left behind plats that I was really proud of and it was hard to do, but the incredible value of having a new account free of any past mistakes was so uplifting to me that I just can't have an account be any less than what I think is perfect any more. 

 

People say it's limiting, but I disagree completely. First of all, just have a separate account if you want to use for burner games or games you aren't sure about. Second, this "freedom" that people talk about in regards to not being able to ditch a project if you don't like it or if something else comes out you want to play, it's loose for me. I don't see freedom in playing 6 games at once and taking forever to finish them if you even do; I'd rather choose something and focus on it. I know when games come out I want to play and I tend to plan around it. I also know myself well enough as a "gamer" and can read the lists of games enough to know if a game is gonna be too frustrating to deal with the 100% and at worst I don't play it, otherwise I use my other account.

 

Don't have a 100% account if you don't want to actually put the effort into it, it's no better or worse for any individual person who doesn't actually own the account, but I look back on my old account and cringe a little at how I interacted with this hobby. That's just for me

Edited April 3, 2021 by Deadly_Ha_Ha

[Booster92BG]

A while ago I was browsing trophy sites, and discovered that im first in my country in the completist leaderboard on PSNTL

It motivated me to keep my account to 100% through the years, and i dont regret at all playing that way.

 

Yes i check every game before i start it, but i dont restrict myself not to play online or hard games. On the contrary i like to play hard games and use their platinums as milestones.

Avoiding only unobtainables, or games with grindy online trophies and old servers.

 

 

[MatThaRiPP3R84]

it's worth it for me. I've done a fair few games that i thought i might not like that much but turned out I did for whatever reason. take it easy on the easier plats and smash out the harder ones.

[AriieSiiS_-]

Regardless of everything they tell you, it is worth it if you are rich, if you are a normal person you CANNOT have a 100% account because ALL video games have DLC'S that are never or almost never on a discount. If for example I wanted to have 100% in my account, removing the impossible games, I would have to spend 200 euros on dlc's of call of duty zombie maps for games that I bought when I was a teenager for 10 euros simply to get a couple of trophies in a ps3 deadgame, worth? If you have money to spare then yes, but for a normal person there is no way it can be profitable to spend so much money on something like that.