March 2 update, Steam no longer counts banned/removed games (or how to lose ~800,000 achievements)

I just saw it. I lost 13 games finished of 60 one.They suppress some games that are removed from store.

Seems so, I had 50k+, but now 20k
EDIT: as Neofoxy stated, I had atleast 160 Perfect games, now 135

I believe so. I dropped 3000 achievements and around 15 perfect games. I think it's the ones from the developers of Zombie Boom etc.that had silly numbers of achievements that took no effort. They were delisted years ago but they still counted as far as I remember.

yep, for some days already, i think that its related to deleted games and how they counts, or mb im wrong .

I still have the achievements for banned games and cheevo spams. Nothing was removed.

Ohhh nice info. So these 5000k Achivement Spamer gone or has lesser number of Achivements.
Good to give achievments on Steam more value.

I think for me Heaven Island VR MMO was removed from my perfect games list (and from Steam itself??) and I'm not sure why because the game is just an ugly tropical island you walk around on and do nothing else. It has 12 achievements so it's not achievement spam, and it's not offensive since the only thing you can do in the game is walk around and pick up seashells and apples. I wonder what exactly has happened here?

I checked... Yes it seem Steam have removed Multiple game-achievements...

I wish I could remove some of mine (from achievement spam games),

No change here as far as I can tell. Although I'm not really keeping close track. As far as I'm concerned they could go ahead and remove all achievements to let people focus on playing the actual games instead of the metagames

No idea about the count as I never paid attention to it, but it seems some achievements I used to decorate my profile (letters) on the achievement showcase are gone now.

This has been common for nearly 2 years now. Steam will ban the obvious asset flip games after they allow them to be sold for a few months. Thats why I don't buy bundles with those developers, and eventually indiegala and other sites won't support those games if they don't sell any keys for it.
I didn't lose a single game or achievement during this Steam Api banwave. Before I would lose 10-50 games each banwave.

At some point when I was younger I might have cared. However I have learned such trivial things mean nothing. They are invisible and mean nothing.

Let the disappointment flow over you like water. Arise tomorrow; a new day.

Thanks for the info, i didn't know this was a thing.

I don't care what the official count is so long as the underlying achievements aren't affected. I spent tens of minutes on some of those awful games!

And removed games, the ones from a big, well know company like 2k, Codemasters, little orbit?
They will counting on archivments scores?

Sadly the 1000's fake games achievements series are gone from my profile, hahahaha.

Went from 100kk to 441k. :(

Good thing I didn't even know how many perfect games I had, so I'll never know how much I've lost 🤣

Also it's good for my collectionitis of games in general. The last time Steam removed the game countings I've lost over 200 games, and since it's easier to lose them than to get them (most of them were freebies from various sites), I'll only focus on games with a count and/or cards.

according to completionist.me, i 'lost' 4 achievements and 1 perfect game. not sure which game it was. for some reason, the numbers on my steam profile differ slightly, but i don't keep track of them on there. total games on my steam profile also dropped by about 200. i ignore poopie games anyway so this doesn't really affect me.

It was expected to happen sooner or later and it is a good, lovely patch.

Now hoarders need to think twice about supporting few minutes long craps which just selling achievements, but actually these horders are the responsible for the removals too, i guess. Many of them refund the game after got their achievements and too many % refunds might make games banned by steam? Just a guess.

As far as i know steam mostly ban only those developers, who exploiting review system to make their games to reach 10 reviews or have positive review value, but looks like they dont catch all, probably only those who doing it from same IP as there are lot of shovelware with positive/very positive reviews and unlikely those are from real people.

I think that's a good change, eventually it will lead to fewer rubbish games in the store.

Good riddance. More than half of those were some Russian shovelware where you'd get 100% just by idling on the main menu for 5 minutes and voila - 300 achievements unlocked. I mean, if people think that they achieved something that way, I'm not sure what to say then.

For me: 282 -> 264 perfect games and 44768 -> 38175 achievements
Not that I care, I mostly play games for fun anyway.
But is there any way to know which games' stats stopped counting?