First of all I loved Modern Warfare.  The only problem I have with it is that there are no online achievements.  I never got up to prestige 10 but I can't imagine getting there and then....no achievement points for it.  It just seems wrong that a game geared toward online play, (although single-player is no slouch), has no online achievements.  Lets hope IW fixes this for Modern Warfare 2.

Robert Bowling said that he hates online achievements as it just promotes assholes to boost for them and to ruin the spirit of the game. I kinda agree with him, I think that the 1000G should include no online achievements and that the map pack downlods should add the online achievements for the people who play the game a lot. 
However surely there's gotta be some achievements for the special ops mode or else whats the point really.

They're called Challenges.

I'm with IW on this one, online achievements ruin the experience for alot of people

Agreed, online achievements are the work of the devil

Yeah, online achievements can be sort of annoying.  Halo 3 has ssoooooo  many haha.

Yep. They probably wont have any. For good reason too.  
For one thing it may encourage boosting type behaviour

Fuck online achievements

Yeh i hate online Achievements; i got all of the original halo 3 achievements and then they brought out DLC's.....*Sigh*.....

i hated that too, you spend days playing a game and you get like 200 points for it...most people play online and that should incorporate at least half of the points.  and the argument that it ruins the gameplay is fucking bullshit, cause half of the challenges in COD4 were exactly that.  WaW was fucking total bullshit tho, u needed to beat it on veteran to get any points what so ever.  

Online achievements are bad, but the least they could do is put in some zero point achievements so it will still show what you have done in multiplayer, but those who aren't into multiplayer can still get 100%.

There are certainly arguments for Online Achievements, but for the most part I agree that there shouldn't be any. They encourage boosting and if the game in particular has an unsuccessful or dead multiplayer (I am looking at YOU, Banjo Kazooie: N&B) then those are some points that are for sure never to be obtained without boosting.
 
However, Call of Duty in particular should try for more unique achievements than just beat the game on Veteran, because that is the least fun thing to do ever.

I think IW has it right by not adding in any online achievements.

I don't like online achievements. I just want to kill shit.
 
Though the guys mentioning the challenges as boosting has a good argument.

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Robert Bowling said that he hates online achievements as it just promotes assholes to boost for them and to ruin the spirit of the game. I kinda agree with him, I think that the 1000G should include no online achievements and that the map pack downlods should add the online achievements for the people who play the game a lot. 
However surely there's gotta be some achievements for the special ops mode or else whats the point really.

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Online achievements really do encourage stupid stuff some times. It would be cool to get at least one Prestige cheevo though.

IW hasn't done any online achievements yet.  Doubt they'll start now. 
 
As for online point boosting, Red Faction Guerrilla made it ridiculous amounts of fun still, but other than that, most of it is boring and tedious.  Other than boosting, though, online achievements still suck anyways.

Anyone that plays LittleBigPlanet is familiar with "H4H" and how it has more or less ruined the game, all thanks to online trophies.

if you have online achievements people boost them. I remember gears of war 1, people would rush to whatever achievement they were trying to get, sacrificing a good strategy for it.

But they could still be done the right way. For example every prestige you get 10pts.  Also kill count could be used (10,000 kills = 20 pts).  I understand certain achievements couldn't be done but at least throw a couple of em at us.

You could still boost in that..its the best its just not in multiplayer at all. You can nitpick it all you want though and wish it was, its not going to change.

" Agreed, online achievements are the work of the devil "

I have to agree with the majority here. Online achievements are no good when mixed with multiplayer gaming. I have been guilty of spending numerous ranked halo 3 matches trying to get a splatter spree and others only for the team to loose for essentially being down a player. 
 
Even zero point achievements cause boosting. I am really happy that IW has thus far chosen to avoid including this game degrading feature. 

They said they're sticking to their no online achievements policy...and I'm happy to hear that. I just wanna play the game for the game itself...not some shitty gamerscore metagame haha.

So what if you don't get an achievement for Prestige? They say 'it's all about the Prestige' for a reason. Would you prefer 'it's all about the gamerscore?'] 
I think people are more 'impressed' enough by seeing someone on CoD with 10th prestige, you don't need another achievement on your gamercard to prove it.
Don't mind online achievements though, it's just that I like how in CoD you get some gamerscore for completing the levels, some for veteran and some random things. Seems like a perfect balance to me. Boosting sucks anyway.

if there were online achievements, then maybe something like "complete you first online game". it might be a neat way to break people into the multilayer under the disguise of getting achievement points. but players without a gold membership would probably not like it too much.

The in-game challenges are enough for me, I don't want online boosting in Modern Warfare 2.

I have to agree that online achievements can be detrimental, I liked the fact that achievement hunting is solely campaign focused in COD4 and think it would be coo if it stayed that way for MW2

id rather not have online achievements.

i hate people like you that play for achievements, im glad it doesn't have them.

I hate online achievements, besides the current Call of Duty challenge system serves as an achievement system 

Totally agree with IW on this. 

The only online achievements there should be are ones given for achieving a certain rank.  Anything else is too easily boostable or only obtainable by boosting in some cases.

Im glad there are no online achievements.