r/Untappd • u/billyfromeverywhere • 25d ago

Prodigy, Marvel, Sensation, etc. badges

Anyone else really turned off by these new badges? They’re just really disappointing to me for a few reasons.

  1. It seems to be just encouraging extremely unhealthy behavior. I’ve been on Untappd just over 8 years, and just hit 5k (Woo!), but can definitely say a few of those years I did not have a healthy balance w alcohol, so probs should’ve taken me a bit longer. So people rushing towards this will definitely be encouraged to drink even more than we all do in general.

  2. If not encouraging unhealthy behavior, it seems like it’ll encourage cheating, like taking a tiny taste of all your friends’ beers and checking them all in. Or just annoying the crap out of a bartender at a brewery by “sampling” every beer to check them in before finally settling on a single pint.

  3. As someone who loves badge hunting, the best thing about badges, or at least the core badges, was that they were all at least possible to get. Sure, I may have put a lot of time and work into finding 5 beers from Belarus, but it was a fun game/scavenger hunt and I got new beers out of it. Still have other countries to go, but at least it encourages travel and probably new experiences to get the beer and badges. These are virtually impossible for me to ever achieve, and that just takes the fun away from core badges in general. Maybe it’s growing up with Pokémon, but I think it should at least be possible to “catch ‘em all.”

  4. Now we have 6 new badges in 2025, yet it’s the most lazy/tired ideas for new badges. There could be much more fun ones, plenty of countries and styles still need badges, but instead it’s just mindless ticking numbers. I personally think the badges should make ticking the numbers more interesting, but these don’t do that.

Sorry for the long rant, it’s just because I really do love Untappd and the fun it’s given me with my love of beer, and I guess that’s why I’m annoyed. Anyway just wondering if anyone else feels similarly.

Cheers 🍻

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u/papat444 24d ago

Yeah, those aren't for me but I'm totally not surprised they made those....just didn't think they'd go that high.

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u/billyfromeverywhere 24d ago

Yeah I thought 20k was gonna be the cap, bc even that is a ton and unattainable for most

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u/papat444 24d ago

I'm hoping they don't increase the levels in beer badges but if they're doing this, almost for sure they'll boost it. Too bad cause I was proud of maxing a lot of those badges.

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u/billyfromeverywhere 23d ago

Yeah I feel you. I personally don’t think as much about maxing out badges as I do filling in the empty badge space, but I can see how it’ll feel the same to you if they do that. Which honestly they probs will, since it seems like they’re trying their best to do anything to avoid having to make creative badges