NieR Automata Lets You Buy Trophies with In-Game Cash

@KratosMD very true. Disney Infinity is one illustrative example with the servers shutting down literally in a few days. And I already had a similar situation with MotorCross Arctic Edge on PSP.

Horizon and this game is day 1 buy for me

What's the in-game currency for besides buying trophies?

I wish they didn't do this, now EA will see this and make you unlock trophies with real money

But doesn't it require you to have completed the game twice before you can buy them?, I think that if you play through a game twice and still don't have certain Trophies then why not offer an easy option?.

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@get2sammyb Thanks, I've played the demo and honestly didn't know that it was an RPG. -_-; Just thought it was an action game. I'm assuming it let's you farm for in-game currency then?

That's great. Kind of a shame that you'll have to complete the game three times before this option to become available. Twice would have been adequate, especially as I think this is a 20-25 hour game.

Pretty cool though. Definitely going for the platinum.

@WanderingBullet Platinum always used currency in their games... Wait, are you telling us you've never played one of those!?!

If u play through the game 3 times and don't get all the trophies maybe u should unlock a special secret trophy that says....u suck

well lets be honest apart from letting you know you did something Trophies/Achievements really are pretty useless anyway

@Xaessya or lock them out completly unless you buy the season pass

@andreoni79 Only bought and played Vanquish. Other than that Ive only played a few demos like Bayonetta and Nier.

Good.
Every game should have this, because these things are stupid to begin with.

I make own goals, dangit.

There should be a way of knowing if someone bought or earned trophies.

@get2sammyb no, but it had a "native" collection of badges in-game, and some of them expected certain achievements in the multiplayer.

It makes the trophies pointless, if the game is like DMC and i don't mean the crap reboot say DMC4. You know someone has put time & effort to get the platinum which not all people can get, because you actually have to be good at the game.

So in a way, there's effectively just one trophy: Complete the game 3 times and save up X amount of currency.

I suppose you could also look at it as the developer valuing determination and effort as equal to raw skill. You could do whatever the trophy requires (as a random guess, let's say "complete the game in less than 5 hours" or "complete the game at level 1") which takes skill, or you can just go the marathon route and just get rewarded for sticking with it for so long.

To be fair, very few trophies in games require skill. They're usually just "complete this level", "grind to max level", "kill this enemy" etc. When they do require skill, there's very often a trick that lets just about any player get it anyway (e.g. you might have a trophy for completing the game quickly. That would normally involve skill but you could just use a guide or watch a speedrun on Youtube). Anything like "Win 10 games in a row online" can be cheated by getting a friend to play you online and letting you win. People on trophy gaming forums do that all the time.

Yeah I don't like this at all. To some people it may not matter, but when I play a game I want to find/do everything maybe I have a little ocd... But I do like how some games block trophies if u use cheats...

What is it these kids say... Git gud or something

Depends on the trophies. If they have online only ones then, all for it as you are still putting in the effort.

That is a really cool idea for the online and super hard difficulty trophies.