Allison’s great post about all of the Feats of Strength still available in the game got me thinking: just what kind of value do players place on these “kinda” achievements? Personally, I never gave them much weight — I have a few of them (I picked up the Vampiric Batling a while ago, and I’ve got the Competitor’s Tabard, among a few other old-school and commemorative achievements), but the ones I’ve got I didn’t really do anything to earn, and the Feats still available don’t really mean that much to me. Unlike “real” achievements, Feats don’t even give you meaningless points, and they can’t be used to get you into any raids or runs that you couldn’t do otherwise. They’re boring to me.

I’m not that way about all achievements — there have been a few that I’ve worked to get done, and there are even non-achievement items that I’ve pushed for in the past (I worked like crazy to finally get my Netherwing drake, and the only achievement I got for that was the Netherwing reputation). But Feats of Strength in particular seem passive to me, by Blizzard’s design: if they happen, great, but there’s not enough reward there for me to go out of my way to get them. What do you think?