Help me understand quantity over quality ?

[Hvalpen]

Im not saying i have a great trophy cabinet(cuz i dont, at all) but all the time i have trophy hunted i always wondered why people like quantity over quality so much? Lets take ane xample.

 

Many of the top hunters on the leaderboards have a whooooole bunch of trash games, 15min plats and multi pops. Compare that to a guy like, for example, Danny Johansen who has some pretty crazy platinums but not "a lot " in general.

 

The second type i understand, the challenge of overcoming and beating an actual huge challenge. Makes sense. But the first type of just farming plats that take less than an hour and x 4 popped plats where the hardest game in the log is some 4/10 game...what make you guys spend so much time on this? What is the reward and satisfaction for you? Each his own, i really just want to try and understand it.

[BlackCatBurrito]

Don't think you need to understand it. Different people enjoy different things. Sometimes, after I've spent a month on a single trophy in a game I just want to play something stupid & pop some trophies while listening to some music or a podcast. It's fun. 

 

As I said though, I don't think people who solely go for easy plats need to explain anything. It's a recreational activity, not a job. If it brings some sort of joy, who cares. It looks cheap, I'll agree. That's their choice though, who cares. I hope they're enjoying themselves. 

 

Watching numbers go up is fucking satisfying, honestly. 

[HellcoreFire]

I should keep an eye on this thread, it's going to be fun. ?

[spazza136]

Yeah you don't need to understand/like/agree that people play easy games or whatever.

 

You just need to understand the words "Each to their own" (My parents taught me that, Thanks Mum and Dad)

 

If someone is doing something they enjoy that isn't illegal/unethical/wrongs someone ask yourself: Is there a logical reason I should care about this?

[BEANO_BRFC]

The amount of ppl who have had digs at me over the years for having mostly easy plats is unreal. End of the day if your pinging commons or ultra rares it doesn't really matter aslong as your having fun doing it. It's just a little picture at the end of the day. Like the previous poster said, there's something satisfying about seeing your numbers and level go up. When it stops been fun then il stop. I didn't earn my first trophy in 2017 til June coz I got bored.

[Manuelito]

1 minute ago, spazza136 said:

If someone is doing something they enjoy that isn't illegal/unethical/wrongs someone ask yourself: Is there a logical reason I should care about this?

Well yeah, you can still try to understand the quantity/quality phenomenon on trophy hunting. And you do that with threads like this ?

I usually play games that i like no matter how hard they are but once in a while a crappy game has a really good discount price so "why not?" they are good for boosting your account and they are nice since they give you a little break between longer and stressful plats. 

[AJ_Radio]

Those guys are trophy whores. They stack several dozen Japanese visual novels for quick platinums. Keep in mind that you have to import them, and they cost a lot of money. They're on the top of the leaderboards, but I wouldn't consider them good players because anyone can stack those games as well. 

 

They have a high disposable income which is why they have such a high trophy count and loads of visual novels. 

 

My advice is to play what you want to play. What people need to ask is are they really getting enjoyment out of speeding through such games? Especially when the text is Japanese and they don't understand what the hell is going on? 

 

I decided that going that route is a waste of my time and money. So I've basically gone with what I want to play and achieve. Not chase after some high ranking on a leaderboard that only a select few people care about. If you understand Japanese and enjoy visual novels, that's great. These people just play them to get a quick platinum, and that's basically it.

Edited November 10, 2017 by Spaz

[Hvalpen]

5 minutes ago, Spaz said:

Those guys are trophy whores. They stack several dozen Japanese visual novels for quick platinums. Keep in mind that you have to import them, and they cost a lot of money. They're on the top of the leaderboards, but I wouldn't consider them good players because anyone can stack those games as well. 

 

They have a high disposable income which is why they have such a high trophy count and loads of visual novels. 

 

My advice is to play what you want to play. What people need to ask is are they really getting enjoyment out of speeding through such games? Especially when the text is Japanese and they don't understand what the hell is going on? 

 

I decided that going that route is a waste of my time and money. So I've basically gone with what I want to play and achieve. Not chase after some high ranking on a leaderboard that only a select few people care about. If you understand Japanese and enjoy visual novels, that's great. These people just play them to get a quick platinum, and that's basically it.

This exactly. 

16 minutes ago, spazza136 said:

Yeah you don't need to understand/like/agree that people play easy games or whatever.

 

You just need to understand the words "Each to their own" (My parents taught me that, Thanks Mum and Dad)

 

If someone is doing something they enjoy that isn't illegal/unethical/wrongs someone ask yourself: Is there a logical reason I should care about this?

By this logic you should barely ask somebody anything, ever. If somebody likes an odd sport..lets say Curling then i would ask them "Why do you like curling so much?"

[AffectatiousDonk]

I am still to meet a "top" player that is a degenerate. Most of them own almost every game, both what in your opinion would constitute great and trash. They can hold great conversation and are very helpful and generous to those in turn.

 

It's an expensive hobby at that level, usually predicated on the one having a good job and a high work ethic. Obviously intelligence is a given. Now I am not implying hunters that don't rank "highly" on the leaderboards are opposite but all I know is these threads are never started by top players ................ perhaps you not understanding is more a reflection on you than them

 

 

Edited November 10, 2017 by CjShai

[DividedByMankind]

I only play quality games and games i really enjoy playing. Games i am really happy to buy, like throw money at the developer for making such an awsome game

 

For me does not matter how hard the game is, i'll play it as longest the game is good Theres 4 games i really regret starting. And even regret getting plat on couple of them. But then again 2 of them are really ULTRA hard, i dont think i can get em done. 

 

But i am not wasting my time on games like visual novels just for trophies, not my type of games either. I dont play everything JUST for trophies. 

 

 

EXAMPLE: If i see a profile with 700 platts, and 600 of them are visual novels. I AM REALLY LOUGHING MY ASS OFF!! REALLY..... And then i say to my self like wooow, i am really not impressed at all...... But if i see a profile with 100 platts. and see games similiar to mine and their average rarity is between 40 and 50, im impressed like  But anyways just my thought about it tho... 

[Bullstomp]

     Trophy Hunters, Trophy Whores . .  . It takes all kinds to make the world.

 

     Mankind wouldn't last if the world were populated with all men or all women. Like Lao Tzu said: "Day, night; male,female; good, evil-Life is duality"⛩️

[Hvalpen]

16 minutes ago, CjShai said:

I am still to meet a "top" player that is a degenerate. Most of them own almost every game, both what in your opinion would constitute great and trash. They can hold great conversation and are very helpful and generous to those in turn.

 

It's an expensive hobby at that level, usually predicated on the one having a good job and a high work ethic. Obviously intelligence is a given. Now I am not implying hunters that don't rank "highly" on the leaderboards are opposite but all I know is these threads are never started by top players ................ perhaps you not understanding is more a reflection on you than them

 

 

Are you real right now? Firstly, i stated that i was in no way a top player. That being said, calling many of the top people on the leaderboard "great players" would also be a joke. Not sure why you drag intelligence into this, but since you do...why would i take intelligence to use your money to fire away at no brainer 15minute games and visual novels? You could take a guy with 10 platinums who would be x100 more skilled than the top leaderboard guys if those ten plats was stuff like super meat boy, lichtspeer, olliolli, trials, wolfenstein 2, crypt of the necrodancer and so on. I really wish your post was sarcasm, but the words before all the dots make me think otherwise

 

EDIT: Checked your profile, now i understand why you felt targeted...

 

EDIT 2: Fully aware that trials is 100% and not a plat

Edited November 10, 2017 by Hvalpen

[Manuelito]

3 minutes ago, Chris Hansen said:

EXAMPLE: If i see a profile with 700 platts, and 600 of them are visual novels. I AM REALLY LOUGHING MY ASS OFF!! REALLY..... And then i say to my self like wooow, i am really not impressed at all...... But if i see a profile with 100 platts. and see games similiar to mine and their average rarity is between 40 and 50, im impressed like  But anyways just my thought about it tho... 

Yeah but the guy with 700 plats has 600 crappy games but in the other 100 there are problably games you and I wont ever get. 

For example Roughdawg4 (1st on the leaderboard) has 150+ UR platinums. Just because he has also 800-1000 shitty plats it becomes a non-impressive account? 

[Bullstomp]

1 minute ago, Winston said:

Yeah but the guy with 700 plats has 600 crappy games but in the other 100 there are problably games you and I wont ever get. 

For example Roughdawg4 (1st on the leaderboard) has 150+ UR platinums. Just because he has also 800-1000 shitty plats it becomes a non-impressive account? 

Team accounts don't impress me personally

[Superbuu3]

56 minutes ago, Hvalpen said:

Many of the top hunters on the leaderboards have a whooooole bunch of trash games, 15min plats and multi pops. Compare that to a guy like, for example, Danny Johansen who has some pretty crazy platinums but not "a lot " in general.

 

 

The top of the leaderboards are people who have played pretty much everything on the system they would accumulate lots of crap games.

 

If you compare any two trophy lists and were to ask which one had better games everyone would point to the one which required more skill. I think you're really underestimating the community here.

Just now, Bullstomp said:

Team accounts don't impress me personally

I didn't want to say it but yeah that also, it would be physically impossible to platinum games at the rate to be at the top of the leaderboards.

[Kittens Are Awesome]

Well, I cant say for the quantity type people, because I'm definitely not one. I don't even trophy hunt all the time. I've been playing Folklore for the last week and a half. It doesn't even have trophies. I also casually play games that I've plat ages ago. So, as far as the quality of the plats/100% I have go, that's not up to me to decide. I just play what I enjoy and try to fulfill all the challenges they throw at me, trophies included.

 

I also question why some gamers chose not to challenge themselves, but ultimately, it's up to them what they do with their free time. As long as they enjoy themselves, it's all good.

[Hvalpen]

4 minutes ago, Phil said:

Well, I cant say for the quantity type people, because I'm definitely not one. I don't even trophy hunt all the time. I've been playing Folklore for the last week and a half. It doesn't even have trophies. I also casually play games that I've plat ages ago. So, as far as the quality of the plats/100% I have go, that's not up to me to decide. I just play what I enjoy and try to fulfill all the challenges they throw at me, trophies included.

 

I also question why some gamers chose not to challenge themselves, but ultimately, it's up to them what they do with their free time. As long as they enjoy themselves, it's all good.

I agree and thats exactly my question. Why sink HOURS into crap games like tapping a mayo jar instead of challenging yourself and overcoming an obstacle. THATS what i dont get

[DividedByMankind]

12 minutes ago, Winston said:

Yeah but the guy with 700 plats has 600 crappy games but in the other 100 there are problably games you and I wont ever get. 

For example Roughdawg4 (1st on the leaderboard) has 150+ UR platinums. Just because he has also 800-1000 shitty plats it becomes a non-impressive account? 

 

 

Yeah i know, ive checked hes commons. But annyways what im saying tho if people wanna play and not to mention waste their money on those visual novels, go ahead It is just not my cup of tea like, What im trying to say, that i do like a profile with 100plats, and average rarity under 50 over a profile with 700 plats and average rarity thats almost on 80  

 

But to say my rarity will allways be under 40. Since im only playing games i enjoy, and i dont care about leaderboards either, maybe a little bit about my country rank tho

Edited November 10, 2017 by Chris Hansen

[Bilpe]

I feel more satisfied when completing a game like Demon's Souls, but I just can't bring myself to ignore some of those slam dunk plats.  The thing is, even if the game is not all that great, I have fun just collecting trophies. I think having fun is what it's all about, as many have stated above.

[BEANO_BRFC]

I have two kids, no hard game will be a bigger challenge than that?

[bezdomnekoty]

14 minutes ago, Bullstomp said:

Team accounts don't impress me personally

LOL really ppl make teams to get trophies who ?

[Bullstomp]

Quality, quantity; rare, common; high completion, low completion - Gaming is duality ⛩️

 

Bullstomp?

16 minutes ago, bezdomnekoty said:

LOL really ppl make teams to get trophies who ?

Look at the top of the leaderboard and pick a name lol

Edited November 10, 2017 by Bullstomp

[AlchemistWer]

Is curiosity how question like this draw a lot of people... When you became a Trophy Hunter I suppost you know the reason behind your desition and what type of trophy hunter you want be? If the answer is NO think about that... You just want a lot of trophies and platinum? ok in two months (maybe one) you can get 100 platinums, it is nice? I dont know maybe for you it is nice. Or you want play your favorite games and find all trophies because you feel them are your friends and you really love all them? - Ok, nice! Or you want prove your limite and play hard games/platinums with a lot of time because you like challenge? Again good for you! At the end is your time, games and money, just enjoy what you do when hunter trophies, Quality or Quantity? think what is better for you (: At the end nobody can tell you "You are a bad trophy hunter" because here you can find people who defend quantity and others how defend quality.

Edited November 10, 2017 by AlchemistWer

[Gage]

Fuck bitches, get trophies

[Bullstomp]

1 minute ago, Gage said:

Fuck bitches, get trophies

Bitches, bastards; give, get; trophies, achievements - Life is duality

 

Bullstomp