...people are selling platinum trophies now?

[LAMV]

No. Just... no.

[Sheleigha]

This guy gets $15 for 10 minutes of work.

It's like people paying for their "service" of hacking PSPs :/ Ugh, sickens me when knowing poor PSP's fate that people were earning money off that... (notice I didn't mention 360? Only because it's still very much alive and kicking)

"All trophies will be earned legit, NO HACKING WHATSOEVER"

Yeah, uh huh, I'm sure you're going to sit on your butt and platinum these games within 24 hours of your "upload". I don't see any other legit way of "uploading" a platinum without hacking it, but whatever will make people feel secure and be able to sleep at night :/

[Darcnova]

Heck, I bet that you're screwed once you buy it, since he has your paypal/CC info by then

[Hero]

This has going on for years. Hell, people were selling Achievements for Xbox 360 before Trophies even existed on PS3.

In most cases I've seen, the Trophies are actually legit. It's just a case of bored/unemployed gamers trying to come up with clever ways to make money. If they can convince some dumbass to pay them money to earn them Trophies, well then I'd say more power to them.

Of course, there's a lot of risks involved here. I would never give my account information to anyone, not even my friends.

[AsukaYui]

First time I've heard it but I have some on my friends list that doesn't have date on their trophies.

[Sheleigha]

Of course, there's a lot of risks involved here. I would never give my account information to anyone, not even my friends.

Definitely, especially if you have your credit card saved to your account. And as mentioned with Paypal, once you pay them, they'll have your account info AND your address for extra PSN fraud :/

It's the same story of "don't give anyone your password etc" but sadly, companies need to say this to cover their legal butts, because of stupid scams that pop up (and the people that believe them).

[AweOfShe]

Why the heck do trophies matter so much that you'd pay someone to play the game for you? Ugh...

Yeah, OCD for trophy/achievement is one thing, but paying someone to play a game for you is pretty silly. It's bad enough that people ignore some legitimately good games because "the trophies are too hard", but will buy shitty shovelware for an easy Plat. Yes, I know people like this...

AweOfShe could get all seven Gravure 4 U trophy sets in less than an hour, apparently he has all of them.

Yeah, it's literally: Choose a character -> take a picture -> exit -> trophy pops up -> repeat...
Even if it didn't have trophies though, my absolute love for Im@s would have pushed me to get them all regardless. Im@s = my life.

[Sheleigha]

It's bad enough that people ignore some legitimately good games because "the trophies are too hard", but will buy shitty shovelware for an easy Plat. Yes, I know people like this...

Yeah I knew of people that would do the buy a used game then return it to Gamestop, with such awesome titles such as: Avatar the Last Airbender, Hannah Montana, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs :/

Reminds me of that girl who's like 18 or 19 and she has a toddler, yet considers her "career" to be a "professional achivement point... person". Nothing beats sitting around at home as a single parent with a kid, then playing EVERY Xbox game you can get your hand on, JUST to be an achievement whore :/

[vertical09]

Man.Its sad how trophy's/acheivments messed up gamers =P
I know a person who wont play a game if it doesn't have trophy's, He says whats the point in playing if thats the case -_-
there's nothing wrong with trophy's, it's good replay value at the most, but for some people it's just a way to look cool or somehting

[Darcnova]

Man.Its sad how trophy's/acheivments messed up gamers =P
I know a person who wont play a game if it doesn't have trophy's, He says whats the point in playing if thats the case -_-
there's nothing wrong with trophy's, it's good replay value at the most, but for some people it's just a way to look cool or somehting

Yeah, some people take it too far...I like em because they add replay value, and are something to show what you have played/done to other people, nothing more...I can play a game without trophies, I just like em

[Sheleigha]

For me, if I can get a trophy I`ll go for it. But I know I have a huge backlog, so if it`s too much time to do, I won`t bother. Neptunia however, I actually LOVED that game enough to play it through to a platinum! It was easy to do and I was willing to do all the work (plus I wanted to recruit all the goddesses anyways).

Some trophies in games can be funny, when it`s almost a "yay you did something! Gold star!" in a sort of "you turned on the game! Trophy 4 u!" I guess it's to make people feel better that they are achieving something already, but those "starting the journy" trophies are funny, I find :p

[Ringwraith]

I think plot-centric trophies are used more as a stat-tracking method more than anything, as it allows you to (roughly) see how many people completed the game, and where people who didn't tended to stop.
Ones at the start I certainly find highly amusing at their pointlessness too though.

[Darcnova]

I think plot-centric trophies are used more as a stat-tracking method more than anything, as it allows you to (roughly) see how many people completed the game, and where people who didn't tended to stop.
Ones at the start I certainly find highly amusing at their pointlessness too though.

Yeah, it seems that way, I also use trophies to challenge myself, since some trophies can be hard, while others...aren't (I'm looking at you Warriors games), but either way, they're just fun to collect, and to use to kill time if you somehow hit a game drought

[ivanchu77]

I don´t undestand why people care so much about something that is completely useless, as far as I know trophys don´t let you buy games for less price or things like that.

[Clephas]

Insane ideas like this are why trophies should never have been introduced...