When are they going to fix this achievement? Has @Jeto said anything? I remember when they fixed the previous two broken guild wars achievements (8.5 I think?), we asked about this one and we were told it would be fixed in 8.8. Well it’s 8.9 and it’s still not fixed.
This is beyond ridiculous. The last person to earn this trophy was December 2023! It’s been unobtainable for nearly two years. It could have been changed to anything else PvP related.
I saw a previous comment @Jeto made where she said that fixing the current CLIFFY errors and missing rewards were more important than achievements and while that is a fair point to make, it doesn’t hold up when certain achievements have been broken for 2 years.
Please try convincing the remaining two devs who work on this game to just stop making new achievements. They are not good at it. It feels like they intentionally try to anger their customer base with them. Some of them are either broken for years, nearly impossible to obtain (440 hours trying to get a Hoard mimic, 13 Hoard mimic battles, still no card), or cause detrimental effects to the playerbase (Paragon).
The Paragon trophy is just awful. We had players in our guild who had donated close to a billion gold and had been in the guild for years have all their stats wiped because they left the guild to get this trophy to maintain their 100% because who freaking knows when the achievement will break and then be unobtainable for years. I got the top score in my guild this week, and did get the trophy after the weekly reset but I agree with others sentiment regarding this achievement.
I am pretty old. I have been gaming since Super Mario was released on the NES. Through hundreds of thousands of hours of gaming, I have never came across a game that handled achievements worse than Gems of Wars. So if they could stop putting new ones into the game, fix the broken/awful ones, a decent % of the playerbase would see you as the messiah because the awful implementation/design of some of these achievements has alienated/angered plenty of current players and caused many players to never start this game.
Once upon a time I loved playing this game. I’m not a whale, but I did spend an amount of money that embarrasses me when I see it tallied.
Your achievement system, foremost among many other terribly mismanaged decisions, has soured me almost irretrievably on your game.
I’m repeating myself, but I swear it feels like the only goal your devs have when designing achievements, is to twist every achievement hunter’s arm into insufferable grinds. Over and over you punish the people you should be trying hardest to keep happy. And seeing you carry on blithely with blunders like “Paragon of War” makes me rue the day I ever installed your game.
New achievements wouldn’t be bad if those were crafted carefully and the devs made sure other achievements worked properly. Achievements can easily be used to try fun and new things in a game and instead we’ve been doing 100 of every kind of Heroic Gem because… reasons.
Sign me up as someone that finds it distasteful to release new achievements if there’s no care in making sure older achievements work properly.
I also feel really bad for anyone needing “The Better Part of Valor: Earn 100 Valor in a single Arena Event” There’s no support to get Arena Events to come back, because the reward structure is terrible.
I wish they would have a simple policy. No new achievements if any of the current ones are unobtainable/broken. If you have the time to implement new ones then you have the time to fix the broken ones instead. If you don’t have the time… well then don’t add new ones!
I’m currently trying to get the Kingdom Crusher achievement. Thankfully that one has been fixed and I just need to reach tier 5… done… and no achievement. Steam says I’m at 4/5. That’s a lie.
Worst part is by the time the achievement gets added, half these heroic gems have been in the game for weeks, meaning we should all already have them, but now we have to start again. And, if the achievement is about encouraging players to interact with shiny new things, it’s missed the boat, because we already did that, and making us do it again feels patronising.
It basically means all those people that say the devs can do what they want because people won’t quit are wrong, because once people are gone, most don’t come back, even at the carrot of a stupidly easy achievement.
I would only care about achievements if I played on anything but mobile. “Geoff is a legend” and the Paragon achievement just shows folks how little the game designers put actual thought into these things.
Years ago they made an achievement super grindy in response to Geoff saying it’s too easy to get GoW achievements. Just to then years later release an achievement that is easy to get but people no longer care to. Apathy is the unspoken Gems of War achievement.
Love how you’ve articulated yourself in this post, I’ve made several threads regarding these unobtainable trophies within the last two years (unfortunately I started playing January 24’ just after the last time they were obtained) I would’ve easily clocked the fastest 100% (not the end of the world) if they were obtainable.
They’ve attempted to fix defender twice since i started which is nice but it hasn’t actually fixed anything and it’s been a “low priority” for a very long time now.. I understand it’s not a simple task to just change some text around but I think it’s time we got some love in this area.. and if they do decide to fix them up, please oh please test that they’re working before they’re implemented into a patch,
If I/we as a community can help or assist in any way @Jeto please don’t hesitate to ask.
There’s no support to get Arena Events to come back, because the reward structure is terrible.