Blizzard plans on achievements for all upcoming games

A couple of days ago I wrote a news item about how Blizzard Entertainment plans on implementing achievements in World of Warcraft. Well this is just the first phase in a larger plan. According to Blizzard, they plan on implementing achievements into all their upcoming titles. Apparently, there will be a Blizzard Level system which totals your achievements to a single Blizzard account.

Jeff Kaplan, World of Warcraft designer, said: “Your ‘WoW’ score would be just one factor that will go into your Blizzard Level. And rather than call it a ’score,’ we just wanted it to be like you’re leveling up on Blizzard games… You’ll have this Blizzard identity, and you’ll be able to see things like ‘Oh, this guy was great at Diablo III, but he never played Starcraft and he was mediocre in WoW. That sort of thing.”

This is a great idea. The only issue I have with it is that Blizzard’s games are already addictive. Now with achievements I think they surpass cigarettes and are on par with heroin.

Read: Blizzard Plans Achievements Across All Games.