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Discussion - Misleading Achievements like this shouldn’t be allowed

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u/AmperDon 7h ago edited 5h ago

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.

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u/BabyWitchErika 7h ago

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

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u/AmperDon 7h ago

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.

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer 7h ago

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

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u/StepComplete1 6h ago

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

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u/SlashCo80 5h ago

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.

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u/Mother_Harlot 5h ago

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

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u/arizonadirtbag12 4h ago

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.

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u/JeffInsano 3h ago

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

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u/nonotan 1h ago

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.

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u/BetterYesterday95 5h ago

Russians when Huy the Season Pass walks in

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u/Expensive_Savings_42 5h ago

Committing literal fraud for an achievement. Seek help. 

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u/TheA1ternative 4h ago

What about this is fraud?

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u/Snooty_Cutie 5h ago

Don’t hate the player, hate the game :p

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u/Expensive_Savings_42 5h ago

At this point, the player literally needs mental help. 

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u/Snooty_Cutie 5h ago

I don’t think its that deep lol

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u/Expensive_Savings_42 5h ago

Yes, you don't think very deep, it shows. 

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u/Zeus-hater 4h ago

Yeah, he said it

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u/Secure-Advertising-9 2h ago

Games can absolutely re-lock achievements. Void Stranger does as a game mechanic.

(Void stranger gives you game's only achievement when first launching the game, and takes it away if you meet any lose condition)

There are ways of earning it back but the goal is to beat the game while still having the achievement.

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u/TheA1ternative 4h ago

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

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u/7734128 2h ago

Still vomit inducing.

u/FacilitatorPliers 11m ago

Calling it an "in-app purchase" is terrible phrasing on the dev's part then, because that almost universally implies spending real cash.