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Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

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Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.

Wouldn't that be more aptly named 'Nightmare mode?'

I found "Hardcore" more appropriate; reminds me of Diablo 2's Hardcore mode where your character can't be recovered after any single death. "Nightmare" takes me back to Doom where it was just a harder mode, without the extra "permanent death" rule.

Sorry, that's my pedantry out of the way for the morning :)

Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

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These seem to be sending mixed messages. Some of these very much seem to be lampooning certain negative behaviors, some of them seem to be encouraging certain positive behaviors. Overall it seems to be ridiculous and an unhelpful distraction.

Check out the icon and the point scoring for the lampooning badges: zero points and a picture of a guy running with scissors.

Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

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post #20

I would like to see something like this in Eclipse.

I wouldn't. Gamification of things like a build tool, where you can compete in fixing tests, adds some value.

These achievements just seem gimmicky. Unlocking the 'loner' award after a good night of saturday night coding is just adding insult to injury.

Or what kind of company would want 5 different curse words in a file, (very childish)

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