World of Warcraft players may find a new thing to poopsock in the upcoming expansion: achievements. Rumor has it that Blizzard will be adding the ever-popular metric of gamer worth to Wrath of the Lich King. I was planning on making a quip about how dumb achievements are, but I soon remembered playing Bioshock twice in a row to get 1000/1000. Woops!

I know a handful of WoW players who are hardcore completionists. We’re talking full rep bars on even the most useless of factions. I can imagine this group being into achievements, sure, but will you see average players take to them?  Some feel that they’re extraneous and worthless, but Blizzard may integrate them in a meaningful way. Perhaps one could be awarded a title or a gimmick item for completing them? We’ll see.

This is still just a rumor, though. As Kotaku points out, the screens may be faked. Blizzard might even scrap the idea. They’ve tossed out bigger concepts before.

There’s a string of sources on this, but we’re going to just go ahead and thank Kotaku since we saw it there. Thanks, Kotaku!