I'm currently in 3rd position for most badges on Protector, and still don't think it took all that much effort. Some would classify me as obsessed, or downright nuts, but for me badges are a type of endgame.
True, the harder to get (*cough* farm *cough*) badges are a PITA, and after close to 5000 hours logged on my main I still have a few of the harder ones to get. But on my favorite toon this is an activity I enjoy.
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Well, "enjoy" as in "feel compelled to complete" 
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Every toon is a badge toon... just some have more than others :-)
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Every toon is a badge toon... just some have more than others :-)
[/ QUOTE ] A toon with badges does not a badge-toon make... but LoL.
I know I have at least some miniscule degree of OCD... I often feel uneasy when things aren't arranged in some sort of order... like if I change the volume on my TV, I have to leave it on an even number, or if I'm grilling out, the brats/burgers have to be in a grid-like pattern on the grill.
As far as badges go, though... it's in the back of my head that I'm still missing a few, but the only real effect it's having on me is it's keeping me from cancelling my subscriptions.
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I suggest that if you did a bit of research into what OCD actually is you'd realize that there really is no comparison.
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Correct, but I do wonder if there's some other pathology there. 
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"Reward maximizers" maybe, that's all.
There's this amusing paper which unfortunately I forget the reference to where I believe they have a computer program with a donkey that spits gold out of its mouth.
It has been several years, but I believe people had to keep pressing buttons to get the donkey to spit out gold. And the more gold is spat out, the more they got to see of a movie (or videos or somesuch.) At first the donkey would spit out a lot of gold, but after a while it would pretty much run dry and you would really have to keep hammering that key to get a chance that it might spit out a little more gold.
The study had some other clever features 
which I entirely fail to remember, ones which made it at least somewhat even more advantageous (less wasted time I believe) not to be a reward maximizer.
Some people still of course just kept pressing that key hoping to get just a little more gold spewing out of that donkeys mouth, even if it took (figuratively) forever.
I remember looking at that and thinking it typified most "end game" MMO players who are out to replace their already good +6 hauberk of awesomeness with a much harder to get +6.5 hauberk of awesomeness. FFXI players seemed particularly partial to this mental attitude, but I am sure it's everywhere.
Note that I'm as guilty as anyone with some activities and some games, so I'm not claiming to be innocent...
"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
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I suggest that if you did a bit of research into what OCD actually is you'd realize that there really is no comparison.
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Yeah, I'm OCD and I don't care about badges. Other things that I have no business losing sleep over, yes, but not badges.
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I only have one badge hunting toon. The rest I could care less.
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but i also try to get badges here and there if i get the chance but not as much as my main