Dear Devs: I Love Our Badges <3

I just finished getting the 'Caballero' perk in a different game. How did I do this?

By killing 5,000 Ghosts. 5,000. Not 200, not 100, 5,000. What did this do?

It unlocked a Costume Piece, and one I still had to go to a vendor in a different zone and pay for. So it didn't exactly unlock a costume piece.

After I defeated these 5,000 Ghosts I turned off my game and booted up CoH, where I decided to finish up my Defeats badges on my main, and then got a few on my main Villain.

So this a note of appreciation to our devs: Thank you for tweaking badges juuuust right, so we don't need to spend days trying to go for a single badge (aside from the MoSTF.) If I want the Saved The World badge, I get a STF together, if I want the Finder badge, I know where to find Lost bosses: I spend just enough time hunting the enemies... NOT spending a metric f-ton hunting the same enemies over and over and over.

So thank you for badges, devs. You are the innovators of what many would call 'meta-gaming', what with an achievement system. You brought it to an online game in a big way; in such a big way that the rival MMO and even the big guys (It's WoW backwards) have followed suit!

Thank you, devs, for the shinies. For the glorious, glorious shinies.

Um. I totally gave up on the kill 5000 perks because the costume pieces you get for doing that all suck butt.
Plus. I thought I was making some real progress on a full team of people killing robot cowboys... Only to find out their kills don't go towards my perk counter...
I have to kill 5000 all by myself. And that is THE MOST BORING THING EVER.

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But I do not like that they lowered the "money" badges... They REALLY need to make a BIG GIANT badge for like 2 billion earned inf. And DO NOT LOWER it ever.

Actually, I think the CO perk requirements will be lowered once there's more content in the game - by adding a zero or two, which I think would have been a pretty quick thing to code, they managed to give players something to do and work on once they'd hit the level cap.

People arent working on those perks... Have you seen the pics of the costume pieces... talk about a waste of time and energy.

The best part of all of this is the fact that you only unlock the costume piece for the character you killed the 5,000 enemies on.