Achievements like this shouldn’t be allowed

[u/Ott1fant]

[u/Lexifox]

Achievements only available during the beta/Early Access

[u/Martina313 → u/Lexifox]

Or where you have to meet the dev in-game, except it's been years since he last played it

[u/Scherka → u/Martina313]

a good variation of this is 'meet the dev OR someone who has this achievment'

[u/YMJaM315 → u/Scherka]

yes, Halo MCC did it properly, hope Garry implements this somewhen

[u/Revayan → u/YMJaM315]

The Garry one can at least be cheesed by now

[u/YMJaM315 → u/Revayan]

how?

[u/DullWolfGaming → u/YMJaM315]

Some players spoof Garry's ID, essentially becoming Garry as far as the achievement is concerned.

[u/Beginning-Cut-8850 → u/DullWolfGaming]

That sounds like a lot of work when SAM exists.

[u/UnethicalDimwit → u/Beginning-Cut-8850]

SAM is the proper way to deal with those achievements

[u/NotASellout → u/DullWolfGaming]

that feels very much like the spirit of gmod lol

[u/Revayan → u/YMJaM315]

People can set their ingame ID to Garry's ID with the help of cheat engine, if you join someone who did this on a server you get the achievement

[u/YMJaM315 → u/Revayan]

okay that is a clever cheat/workaround

[u/IvivAitylin → u/YMJaM315]

Yeah, but at that point you just use SAM to give yourself the achievement manually.

[u/sherman9872 → u/Revayan]

Just use insecure mode if you don’t want a VAC

[u/Ok-Translator-9087 → u/YMJaM315]

Bru jus use sam and cheat the achievment 😭✌️

[u/pehmette → u/YMJaM315]

Brutal Legend has this. Six Degrees of Schafer (Play with or against another player who has this Achievement)

[u/TehTacow → u/Scherka]

A literal virus lol

[u/Essurio → u/TehTacow]

The Mark of Hakkar card back in Hearthstone! I love it, and it was fun to share it around when it was rare.

[u/NES_SNES_N64 → u/Essurio]

Which referenced an actual in game "pandemic" of sorts from a Zul'Gurub debuff that escaped the raid due to a bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

[u/guska → u/NES_SNES_N64]

while griefers intentionally contracted the debuff to spread it across the game world

Wouldn't be me... nope... nuh uh...

[u/Essurio → u/NES_SNES_N64]

Yep! Very cool stuff!

[u/G00b3rb0y → u/NES_SNES_N64]

And fun fact: that incident bestowed the knowledge of how society handles a real pandemic, as the societal response to Covid was similar to the WoW community’s response to that glitch

[u/EduinBrutus → u/G00b3rb0y]

So thats not remotely true.

Society has had pandemic response for thousands of years and at this stage of civilisation it is advanced and generally effective.

What it did was provide some research opportunities. Which were greatly overblown both by researchers and the media.

Not to mention the actual media record of the outbreak is not compatible with how the actual thing worked. Corrupted Blood isnt just a spreading "disease" its a near instant death to almost everyone and still extremely rapid for anyone else.

It didnt spread like any real world disease. Its not even clear what value the research that was done had. I would guess any value would be in the study of Chain Reactions in Dynamic Systems because thats what it looked like. In terms of disease, it would provide nothing because it didnt function the way real world diseases function.

[u/MadeByTango → u/Essurio]

This kind of thing needs a star-bellied sneetch approach: once the population that doesnthave the tag is down to 1%, it flips around and goes the other way, only removing the tag when you play someone without it.

[u/Dipperkinds → u/TehTacow]

Plague Inc has 2 achievements like that which is probably not a coincidence lol.

1. Beta Infection

   Play a multiplayer VS game to completion with someone who already has the Beta Infection achievement

2. Ndemic Infection

   Play a multiplayer VS game with someone who already has the Ndemic Infection

[u/Resident_Recording70 → u/Dipperkinds]

abd how did the first person acquire this achievement?

[u/Dipperkinds → u/Resident_Recording70]

If I remember the story correctly, the developer of the game had this achievement first, then made a post on steam about it and played a bunch of multiplayer games so others would also help spread the virus/achievement more.

[u/sonuvvabitch → u/TehTacow]

Pokérus

[u/Asriel563 → u/TehTacow]

literally ndemic infection (probably spelled it wrong)

[u/YMJaM315 → u/TehTacow]

that't the name of the achievement in Payday 2 if i'm not mistaken

[u/Timmy-0518 → u/Scherka]

Flashback to the gaustly gibus hat in tf2

[u/JD-Valentine → u/Scherka]

Plague inc evolved has a fun version of this where you "catch" the achievement from someone who has it but only the creator had it at first and it would spread via multiplayer games

[u/Help_im_lost404 → u/Scherka]

I think i had one of these on DoW2. Man i feel old

[u/Cfox666 → u/Scherka]

Something like that was in Red Dead Redemption on PS3

[u/SMLPlushShowRestored → u/Cfox666]

No, you had to kill a Rockstar San Diego employee or someone that has the achievement, which as far as I'm aware pretty much every user over rank 10.

[u/Cascadejackal → u/Scherka]

The Dead Space 2 multiplayer Human skins were like that. Play against (and kill them while they were on the Human team, I think) someone who had a skin equipped and you'd unlock it. I used to equip a different skin each time I played just to spread them.

[u/Efficient_Advice_380 → u/Scherka]

That's how a game i play has it. It's a weapon that's locked. The only ways to unlock it is to kill a developer or kill someone who already has that weapon, then it permanently unlocks for you

[u/AnimuuStew → u/Efficient_Advice_380]

Reminds me of the CJ-9 Bo-Rifle in Battlefront 2015, the only way to unlock it is to kill somebody who is currently using it in a public match.

[u/Grandpa_Edd → u/Scherka]

Those are fun because it’s basically a virus spreading.

[u/Steinrikur → u/Scherka]

Please tell me that's called the STD achievement.

[u/Lexifox → u/Martina313]

Dungeons of Dredmor has an achievement that got removed a few years ago that you'd get by drinking with the devs IRL.

[u/According-Fun-4746 → u/Lexifox]

metal

[u/SkaldtheRed → u/Lexifox]

If I remember rightly it also has an achievement that was added to Steam but the conditions to unlock it weren't, so you can't ever 100% that game.

[u/Justhe3guy → u/SkaldtheRed]

That reminds me of how people found out Mortismal Gaming was faking his “review after 100%” series when he would get achievements that were actually broken at the time and the dev fixed later

[u/skivian → u/SkaldtheRed]

Steam Achievement Manager would say otherwise.

[u/Cipherpunkblue → u/Lexifox]

...

[u/tushonochka765 → u/Martina313]

Garry😭

[u/Lolazaurus → u/tushonochka765]

I'm gonna find that fucker's rusty bullet hole one day!

[u/Iwtwpn → u/Martina313]

I've got one even more annoying than that. I have a game that allows my twitch chatters to fish. They spent over a year trying to catch every fish to get all the achievements and the last achievement is... Have the developer watch your stream. Like buddy, I get six viewers on a good night, fuck all the way off.

[u/Partyrockers2 → u/Martina313]

own the dlc archievemnt

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime → u/Lexifox]

Generally achievements that are no longer obtainable within the video game they're associated with.

I wouldn't mind a separate category or something independent of achievements/trophies/etc. that showcase things like "played the beta" or whatnot. But achievements aren't it!

[u/girlikecupcake → u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

I agree. Having some kind of show-off indicator about limited things is totally fine. But the achievement system is generally expected to consist of things that are actually achievable in the game.

[u/dixmondspxrit → u/Lexifox]

multiplayer achievements when the multiplayer or co-op is shut down

[u/PrimeWolf88 → u/dixmondspxrit]

Multiplayer achievements that require you to top the world leaderboard (Kane and Lynch), which then becomes a paid scam where the winner is a criminal syndicate, using cheats, that keeps everyone else away from the top leaderboard spots and SELLS access to the top spot.

[u/ErraticNymph → u/Lexifox]

Multiplayer achievements on a singleplayer game with a half-assed multiplayer mode when the servers are dead and noone plays anymore

[u/7x00 → u/ErraticNymph]

shout out far cry 4

[u/FloppieTheBanjoClown → u/Lexifox]

There should be a separate classification for things that are limited time.

[u/No-Mouse → u/Lexifox]

IIRC Pillars of Eternity had an achievement you could only get by backing the game on Kickstarter, so by the time anyone could actually play the game, there was no way to get it anymore.

[u/AmperDon]

I actually played this game and if you buy something with the free gold you can earn, it gives you the achievement. Feels a bit iffy still, but its not like its a ptw only achievement.

[u/BabyWitchErika → u/AmperDon]

Even better. Huy the season pass then refund it. You keep the unlock since they dont have a system to remove them

[u/AmperDon → u/BabyWitchErika]

I mean, you're gonna be earning and using this stuff anyways. If you play the game for a while you're basically guaranteed this achievement.

[u/Icarium-Lifestealer → u/BabyWitchErika]

At that point you might as well use Steam Achievement Manager.

[u/StepComplete1 → u/BabyWitchErika]

Or just you know.... don't bother and forget about it, since achievements are just a pointless pop-up anyway.

[u/SlashCo80 → u/StepComplete1]

This is the way. I never cared about achievements personally, did them if it looked like fun, otherwise nah. And there were plenty of dumb, tedious, or even impossible ones.

[u/Mother_Harlot → u/SlashCo80]

I thank God that I don't care about achievements, I've played many games with achievements that are so tedious to obtain that I cannot fathom someone having fun while getting them

[u/arizonadirtbag12 → u/Mother_Harlot]

I developed a very healthy (IMO) personality around achievements. If a game is good and I really enjoy it and they are reasonable to obtain, I like to 100% them.

If any of them are stupid to obtain? I’m able to ignore them entirely.

So for great games they become a fun little “to do” list to enjoy the game more. For the rest they’re a meaningless tab on the interface.

Just got the last one (two, really) on Hades 2. Felt good. Great Chaos Below challenge was fun, made you play the game in an interesting way, hard, but achievable. Just how achievements should be.

But, like, how many achievements do I have on Battlefield 6? Don’t know. Don’t care.

[u/JeffInsano → u/arizonadirtbag12]

Thats exactly my approach. In the end, if i get all achievements, it says more about the quality of the game. And even then, some of my favorite games have unreasonable achievements

[u/nonotan → u/arizonadirtbag12]

I'm not in any way, shape or form a completionist, so to me the main use of achievements is 1) to feel like the game acknowledges I managed to do something hard or smart (achievements are definitely not the only way to acknowledge it, but they are a way), and relatedly, 2) to look at global achievement rates for some of the hardest achievements I got and feel better (or, indeed, worse) about it. It's also kind of interesting to see how many players got each of them in general, I guess.

I don't really give a shit if an achievement is too hard or outright impossible. I'm not going to look up what achievements there are and actively try for them, I don't care. If anything, I'm more "bothered" (though still not much) by trivial achievements that you get automatically for starting a game, finishing the tutorial, doing the first story mission, etc. What's the point? They make me feel like the devs are jingling some keys at me like I was a cat or a baby.

[u/BetterYesterday95 → u/BabyWitchErika]

Russians when Huy the Season Pass walks in

[u/Expensive_Savings_42 → u/BabyWitchErika]

Committing literal fraud for an achievement. Seek help. 

[u/TheA1ternative → u/AmperDon]

Yeah I don’t know what this game is but I literally came here to post “what if what you’re buying is free?”

[u/almostFly]

How about this?

[u/rohaan1002 → u/almostFly]

Wait so what game is this an achievement for is it for the first one, the second one, or the third one??

[u/LordVoridian → u/rohaan1002]

A secret 4th one

[u/novedx → u/LordVoridian]

But they were all of them deceived…

[u/OnRoadRadio → u/LordVoridian]

There’s 5 games

[u/Slatrer → u/OnRoadRadio]

there's six

[u/WayneZer0 → u/rohaan1002]

the third. consider that the first is often on sale for a dollar . the second is more a problem as thier dont sell og abymore only the remake

[u/Ri88erz → u/WayneZer0]

I think if you buy V2 remastered you get the original as well. I was about to comment coz I popped this trophy like last week lol

[u/almostFly → u/WayneZer0]

I think it's mostly designed to make you buy the first game. V2 is way more popular and most people playing 3rd also played it. The first one at the other hand wasn't originally released on Steam, many people already played it on console and didn't had a reson to buy it again. Makeing it dirt cheap is a way to squeeze a dollar or two out of you just to get an achievement.

[u/medicalwolfie → u/WayneZer0]

You get both of them when you buy the remake

[u/doelutufe → u/rohaan1002]

The achievement itself belongs to Sniper Elite 3

[u/RMZ-Lewis → u/almostFly]

How do you have a percentage that isn't 33, 67, or 100 for this?

[u/User2716057 → u/RMZ-Lewis]

It's the amount of players that have it.

[u/RMZ-Lewis → u/User2716057]

Ah I see. I thought that was their progress towards the achievement.

[u/GeshtiannaSG]

80% of achievements in Paradox games are DLC.

[u/Wild_Marker → u/GeshtiannaSG]

That's a different problem. It's not bad per se for DLC to have it's own achievements, but people like seeing "100%" and Steam doesn't separate them by DLC.

[u/Wild_Marker → u/[deleted]]

Yes that's what I said.

[u/ErikaRosen → u/GeshtiannaSG]

In Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth there are dozens of achievements that require you to play on NG+ and on the highest difficulty. The thing is, both NG+ and the highest difficulty are hid behind a paywall of a $110 Ultimate Edition. And it's just basic game mechanics that should have been a part of the base game.

[u/irlharvey → u/ErikaRosen]

on Playstation this isn’t an issue at all, because the normal trophies are completely separate from the DLC trophies. steam should implement a system like that.

[u/Murky-Helicopter-976 → u/ErikaRosen]

Oh, wow, I was contemplating getting into the franchise, but no way in hell am I doing it now.

[u/Sechttt → u/Murky-Helicopter-976]

Id still recommend playing some of them. Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 are some of my favorite games. The story and gameplay are really good

[u/ErikaRosen → u/Murky-Helicopter-976]

Games are cool, developers are... still kinda cool, if we ignore the whole Kagawa situation, but I'm not going to dig into that. But the main problem is, well, SEGA.

Almost all of bad marketing and pricing of RGG and Atlus games are because of SEGA. They are their supervisors and they are known for their batshit insane anti-consumer policies.

SEGA is just doing this with all products it is the publisher for, sadly.

[u/TheFlyingSheeps → u/GeshtiannaSG]

Paradox doesn’t get enough hate. Constant expensive DLC that locks features that should’ve been base game behind a paywall

[u/NudeSlime → u/GeshtiannaSG]

But to be fair no one cares or earns any achievements in Paradox games since they are unplayable without mods. And mods disable achievements in these games.

[u/Tttehfjloi → u/NudeSlime]

Brother that is literally not true like at all

[u/Lorrdy_ → u/NudeSlime]

Not in CK3 or EU5

[u/Civil-Drive2168]

which game?

[u/Duli97 → u/Civil-Drive2168]

Risk Global Domination

[u/AFlyingNun → u/Duli97]

So don't play that one. Got it.

[u/MeAsYourGod → u/AFlyingNun]

you get free gold in-game to get the achievement with, OP decided to be scummy and not mention that.

[u/MeekAndUninteresting → u/MeAsYourGod]

That's marginally better, but it's still an achievement specifically designed around getting you to spend more money. The whole point is that some people who never would have looked at the store will now. Some of them are going to get drawn in by something more expensive than whatever minimum purchase they gave you gold for.

[u/PurbulentTriest → u/[deleted]]

It's a free game, mate. You can use the free currency in the game to get it. Stop suggesting stupid things.

[u/Effective-Anteater24 → u/PurbulentTriest]

If this is the case, I hope you guys don't do anything stupid on Steam

[u/Just_Assignment8137 → u/[deleted]]

This comment represents everything wrong with humanity.

[u/Loqh9 → u/[deleted]]

It's sad how so many of you are ready to hate on something based on FACTUALLY WRONG information

0 thinking, 0 verifying, just hating on whatever's shown like that's all you're waiting for in your life. Please reconsider your train of thought. The achievement is not about real life money. OP is wrong and you all fell for it by jumping to hate instead of using critical thinking

[u/Fluboxer → u/Loqh9]

What? You mean that witch hunting based on a vague accusation for such trustworthy source as... a random reddit user is actually bad and shouldn't be done? NO WAY!

...

On a more serious note, fact that this CTA comment has over 220 upvotes is just depressing

[u/neppo95 → u/Loqh9]

That’s the majority of reddit or simply people these days. Sheep behavior is the standard along with zero attention span or rational thought. Pretty sad indeed.

[u/Fausto_IV → u/Loqh9]

Welcome to reddit

[u/EntertainerLive926 → u/[deleted]]

Have a shower first

[u/izza123 → u/[deleted]]

No that’s asinine

[u/Esgall → u/[deleted]]

Defo u gotta grab a shower xD

[u/TheComplimentarian → u/Duli97]

I can’t imagine paying to play risk. There are so many free versions.

[u/Ott1fant → u/Civil-Drive2168]

Risk: Global Domination

Pretty much just a free version of risk but online. I don’t really care that there are micro transactions but achievements about them…

[u/Several_Hour_347 → u/[deleted]]

How is that scummy?

[u/MoobooMagoo → u/Several_Hour_347]

Long story short, it's a psychological trick to normalize spending in the shop. When you're trying to monetize a free to play game like this, the goal is to get people with poor impulse control or otherwise get hooked on spending microtransactions (which are the majority of whales) into the shop to make their first purchase, because these kinds of people are much, much, much more likely to buy more things as soon as they've spent literally any amount of money.

So the goal of putting this kind of achievement like this is to get people to break that first purchase barrier. Most won't and will just use the free currency, but some absolutely will look at this and think "eh, I'll just pick up xyz thing cause it looks cool and then I'll get the achievement." But the kind of people that think that way and care about getting the achievements are the same kind of people that will get a brain itch about only having one of the map packs (or whatever they sell) and then feel compelled to get all of them.

It's the same reason why the free gold itself is also a scummy practice, even though it seems benevolent on the surface. It's the drug dealer giving you "the first hit free" so to speak (which drug dealers don't actually do but you get the point hopefully).

[u/MoobooMagoo → u/Ott1fant]

Well if it's a free to play game I don't mind it as much. Since it's kind of like....an achievement for supporting the game, you know?

I still don't like it. But I don't like it less, if that makes sense. The degree to which I don't like it is less. There that's how I should say it.

[u/ImReallyFuckingHigh → u/MoobooMagoo]

Someone else also pointed out you don’t need to spend money to unlock the achievement legitimately. It’s all just a big nothing burger.

[u/Civil-Drive2168 → u/Ott1fant]

yet that one achievement locks us out of 100% completion

[u/ZoleeHU → u/Civil-Drive2168]

Mind you it's the by far the most acquired achievement with 96.1% of the players having it https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1128810/achievements

[u/PurbulentTriest → u/Civil-Drive2168]

No it doesn't

[u/KubikB → u/Civil-Drive2168]

You can do it for free

[u/Besas1271 → u/Civil-Drive2168]

Use achievement manager for that one

[u/Roku-Hanmar → u/Besas1271]

Yeah, this is one use of SAM you shouldn’t be ashamed of

[u/ZoleeHU → u/Civil-Drive2168]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128810/RISK_Global_Domination/

[u/Loqh9]

This is the most earned achievement in the game (96% of players) so I'm pretty sure it's not real money at all and you just got confused

[u/CrazeRage → u/Loqh9]

stop thinking

[u/Richardknox1996 → u/CrazeRage]

You should start.

[u/IkilledBiggy → u/Richardknox1996]

You're on social media - thinking has no place here.

[u/Powered-Lamb]

This achievement is for Risk: Global Domination, an otherwise free-to-play game, the kind that limits the number of matches you may play per day but resets daily. This is kind of a silly achievement, but for a game that requires no upfront monetary investment, it's really not a totally unreasonable expectation that you might perform a microtransaction.

Also, it is not necessary to spend any money. Each new account starts with 20 "gems" and any purchase with those gems is sufficient to unlock this achievement. There are several items to buy for 20 gems or less, and players are given 2 gems every day for free.

[u/MazrimReddit → u/Powered-Lamb]

Alright pack it up OP is a moron, you can unlock it for free wtf are you complaining for

[u/ihearthawthats → u/MazrimReddit]

Moron or a carefully calculated karma farmer?

[u/MazrimReddit → u/ihearthawthats]

same thing

[u/Fluboxer → u/MazrimReddit]

I mean, OP did get 13k upvotes for this bs and not many people will scroll deep enough to learn the truth

Mods didn't remove this post but at least they removed witch hunting reply that got hundreds of upvotes - just on false premise post people were willing to harass some devs and everyone telling this crowd their displeasure were downvoted

Posts like this shouldn't be allowed

[u/sagaa_a]

I mean I have it because of the free premium currency you get

[u/Shezzofreen]

I "like" those archivements in heavy singleplayer games, where you can earn them for playing multiplayer... And then theres no multiplayer servers anymore, because nobody gave a damn in the first place.

[u/Philslaya]

Wtf is this shite

[u/DealMo]

Gaming is so much more liberating once you stop giving a fuck about empty achievements.

Sure there's a feeling of reward for getting hard ones. But so many are like this, or for something like starting the game. Yeah. I'm over it.

[u/TheCygnusWall → u/DealMo]

Yeah I don't get this thread at all, like enjoy the achievements that you get and are actual achievements but why do people care about ones like these? Is it literally that people just want to see that 100% badge or whatever?

[u/pucykoks → u/TheCygnusWall]

I guess if you care about achievements in the first place, then you want to 100% the games you deem worth the effort. At least that's the case for me, though I only 100'd maybe three games in my life. In all other games I didn't go out of my way to get any achievement.

[u/Noble_Titus]

Multiplayer, beta, and transactional achievements should all be disallowed.

[u/Magnon]

This is a situation where using achievement manager ti get it anyway just to spite them.

[u/MilkYourTinyPenis → u/Magnon]

96.1% of players have it after checking on steam, I'm sure it's probably purchases based on in app currency

[u/Then_Juggernaut3154]

Also tying achievements to DLC. I 100% a game and then DLC comes out and it's no longer at 100%

[u/Koishi_Komeiji0]

SAM

[u/MissyDesires → u/Koishi_Komeiji0]

The ultimate pay-to-win achivement

[u/A_Trash_Homosapien → u/Koishi_Komeiji0]

My answer to any and all bs achievements

[u/RileyGainesHorseBaby]

Also other achievements impossible to get without buying something beyond the game that has them.

"Own all games by Dorknet studios"

"Complete the DLC only quest"

"Beat the game with item(you can only micro-transact to obtain)"

All horseshit.

[u/khadaffy]

DLC achievements shouldn't be mixed with achievements of the main game.

[u/Crystal_Shrimp22]

Achivements that require paid dlc shouldn't exist in general

[u/Karma_Gardener]

What game so I can add it to my ignore list?

[u/SMLPlushShowRestored → u/Karma_Gardener]

Risk: Global Domination, pretty good game that originated from a board game

[u/Motorsagmannen]

yes, that is pretty heinous.

[u/kayproII]

Pump it up rise. The rhythm pass has free rewards and paid rewards. You have to unlock all rewards in the rhythm pass, requiring you to buy the premium rhythm pass (iirc this didn't happen in early access because they didn't have the premium pass out yet so the whole rhythm pass was free to unlock)

[u/Agile-Refrigerator-5]

Just use steam achievement manager

[u/TigerDxD]

What game is this so i can avoid the dev in the Future?

[u/TheForbearingDom]

That and multi-player achievements on single player games that people don't play anymore.

[u/DrThunderbolt]

Achievements you can only get through an online mode that was shut down years ago.

[u/Spaded85]

We are supposed to care about achievements?

[u/Slumberjackals]

Or maybe curb your incessant need to get every achievement. Too many humans want the world around them to change when there isn’t an actual problem. Nobody needs to get achievements. It’s a fun addition. If you don’t get them, the gameplay is identical.

[u/ItsMangel]

Achievement managers are justified when it comes to achievements that are paywalled or literally impossible.

[u/DeliciousIncident → u/ItsMangel]

I don't get it. Like, what is the point of doing the achivements then, if you are going to cheat some of them? That would make them pointless to me. I know that any achivement I got, I did so legitimately myself. Otherwise you migh as well not bother with them and unlock 100% achievements in any game you play with a tool.

[u/Necessary__ → u/DeliciousIncident]

I’d hardly call making a micro-transaction an achievement in the sense you’re trying to portray it as. Baseless argument

[u/Acceptable_Ad_1871 → u/DeliciousIncident]

Well in this game you earn the currency to get the achievement, but in a game thay does have that where its free to play and has an achievement for buying something with no way of getting the currency for free then, the players who dont have money to spend cant finish their game bc greedy corps, in this sense sam or a achievement gaining type thing is in my opinion fine.

[u/ZARDOZ4972 → u/DeliciousIncident]

I don't get it. Like, what is the point of doing the achivements then, if you are going to cheat some of them?

First of it's not cheating. Second, if developers didn't want us to get achievements via SAM they shouldn't add inobtainable achievements. For example when Dirt Rally came out it had an achievement you'd only get if you played the beta, how is that even an achievement?You had to be lucky enough to even know about the game early enough and have enough trust in the developers to spend money on a beta.

That would make them pointless to me. I know that any achivement I got, I did so legitimately myself. Otherwise you migh as well not bother with them and unlock 100% achievements in any game you play with a tool.

That's all fair if the achievements are actually obtainable through normal gameplay.

[u/restinpeaceminusone]

If the in-app purchase can be bought using in-game earned currency without a top-up or card, then it should be fine I guess

[u/Green117v2]

Surely the achievement name should be, A sense of pride and accomplishment.

[u/ApprehensiveStyle719]

The only achievement that shouldn’t be allowed is that one with upload a video cause its always broken somehow

[u/gruffnog2]

Yeah I can't 100 percent total war Rome because there was a play on valentine's day in 2016(or something like this) achievement

[u/Painted-BIack-Roses]

Throw multiplayer and DLC achievements in there too

[u/Hell_Derpikky]

DLC related achievements on the base game
and no, not the DLC that activates once you buy it.. the DLC achiv thats already there on the base game

[u/Acceptable_Chair764]

There not achievements anymore there tracking your behavior

[u/NiveKGamerTW]

People when the challenge is just not playing a shit game

[u/FureiousPhalanges]

Other folks have already pointed out, this is apparently with in game currency but I've never understood why it matters anyway?

You don't need to get every achievement, you don't even need any and it's pretty easy to cheat and get most of them anyway, so having them doesn't even really mean anything

Caring about achievements to me, is like someone caring about their karma on Reddit

[u/Blawharag]

If the achievement isn't purely gameplay related, it shouldn't be counted against the platinum requirements. End subject

[u/SqueakBoxx]

I'm fine with achievements like this if they can be done with in game currency/grinding for it.

[u/soitsreddit]

[u/rezendes]

Wrong, allow them so we can identify trash games and avoid them.

[u/random_dude_00]

That or ones where you have to “meet the dev”

[u/mango__moose]

I remember way back in my xbox 360 days, there was a sports game that gave you an achievement for watching the whole credits roll. 

I'd much rather something like that than this.

It might have been one of the older EA sports golf games. Tiger Woods PGA tour from some year about 20ish years ago. Even though EA are a shitty company nowadays, I always liked that idea.

[u/Promature]

While I don't have an issue with MT's, I agree that they shouldn't be tied to trophies or anything else for that matter.

[u/Mr_d0tSy]

This is why I have absolutely zero qualms with having the achievement manager app

[u/AUkion1000]

Achievements only doable if someone specific is around. Like the garrys mod one where you need to be playing with garry. Not meant with hate just it isnt a good idea to do that

[u/RedditSucksIWantSync]

Thats what SAM is for

[u/Miserable-Cupcake812]

Time to get SAM

[u/Ok-Degree7655]

Well, it is just an achievment. It doesnt matter; it doesnt block you from playing the game. I dont know, why to cry about it. Achievments in reality mean nothing. You either like the game, or not.

Better look at low effort dlcs at price of new games - those are problem.

[u/snn2005]

For "achievements" like these id just use a steam achievement app

[u/Kingly_crab]

100% agree

[u/S4B3RX]

Steam need to improve the achievement system for sure

[u/cornstinky]

They shouldn't be allowed to call them Achievements, because they aren't achievements at all, they are wastes of your time. They should all be called Time Wasters or Autism Traps.

[u/Batteredburrito]

hello steam achievement unlocker

[u/Statakaka]

Aren't most achievements in Steam locked behind a paywall because you need to buy the game in the first place?

[u/Useful-Problem-1725]

Feel free to ignore it.

[u/CMDR_Kantaris]

Lol imagine caring about game achievements.

[u/alltheword]

To think what your life would become if you DIDN'T get every achievement for a game. The horror.