So people hack achievements now?

The saddest thing in that picture is that they played The Walking Dead for half an hour and put it down without finishing it.

They are called Achievements for a reason. You have to Achieve it. YOU and not an application. In my opinion, achievements can make a boring game exciting, 'cause if you see, which achievements can you unlock, you have a goal. I like Achievements,and I can't imagine a game today, which doesn't have at least one, because they are good, and you can remember them, how much time did it take, or how many times did you failed, and things like that. The Achievements and events made Killing Floor a very exciting game, because normally it's a repetitive game, you have to do the same over and over, but if you know, what do you want to unlock, it drives you to make one more round, because maybe you can Achieve it.

I'd only hack this buggy Claw Machine Master achievement in Killing Floor. Crane in 125 seconds? Are they really wanted to trick it out, or they just mistyped the seconds value?

I must admit that I did this once.
Air Forte had/has a bug that disables achievements. I did everything for the achievements, but since I did not get them I felt that it was justified to use the achievement manager.

LOL this isn't new, in the past when TF2 wasn't F2P game practically everybody entered achievement server and got every achievement in the game. And I think this server still exists, so if you can hack achievements to one game, you can probably hack them to others.

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I know you can hack the Skyrim achievements. I earned all of them, but "Oblivion Walker" is broken. That's the one where you get all the Daedric items. Yes, I got the Masque instead of the Axe both times. I got the Azura Star one time and the Black Star the other time. The first time, I only got the Savior's Hide. The second time, I exploited the glitch to get it and the Ring of Hircine. I got all of them, and yes I know the Skeleton Key doesn't count. I believe the game decides at the beginning if you are going to get it, and if not, you're SOL, and I'm unlucky at dice. So, I found a mod that pops it.

I'd never hack an achievement I didn't earn, and I hated when somebody else would do this for me on the Xbox. Even though it's my wife's Xbox, the profile had my name on it, and other people would use my account and earn achievements... took all the fun out of collecting gamerscore out of it.

So what?

Semi-related fun fact : I once stumbled on a guy who used SAM to REMOVE its Skyrim achievements. Why? To get them again, of course! :D
I don't really know why he wanted to do that, but hey, if that's his thing...

You can play it offline and it doesn't show any records when you get online, only achivements.

No, i think if you play enough Dota 2, the other games' achievements start to unlock themselves.

....What the hell is the point of hacking achievements? The whole point is to play the game to earn them. If you hack them, they have no value.

I guess he just wants to level his account up (I know a few who have a Lv. 100+ account), but even that is kinda meaningless, so...

People are using SAm to hack cards from the games and also run achievements for Playfire, only that no one has the guts to say it ! Impressed ?

it sucks unless it's used to repair some bugged achievements, everytime i see 0 hours of playtime and max achievements i report it

The only time I ever hacked achievements is so I could get items for tf2 (poker night 2, once I get PN 1, i'll do it to that one too.)

depends on peoples choice i am getting the achievements of the games i play by my self but i use SAM to get the cards without installing the game

One word: Playfire...

it doesn't have to be a hack. when you play a game offline, you get the achivements but gameplay time won't be recorded so its possible with single player games but i cant guarant it

Yes people cheat, and all the time you put in getting that achievement that only 1% of everyone has means nothing, it all means nothing, just like steam level, or your amount of pokemon that you caught. Santa isn't real and the Easter bunny is your mom. Grow up

Did he just buy the games to get achievements? He didn't even play... What a waste.

Considering achievements are something that I personally enjoy "collecting"... I really don't care about the people who cheat to get them. In the end they're only doing themselves, and the games they aren't really playing, a disservice by doing it. If they get some kind of personal joy out of "butchering a classic", so to speak, who am I to stop them?

On the other hand though, the folks who do this definitely cheapen the system at the level in which the public views it. Especially those who cheat so blatantly. So I personally try to discourage it whenever possible, and hope someday Valve can work some real security around it.

It's not new, people have been using achievement managers for a long time now

Not new, people are doing it for 6 months now.

I like how 2.1 hours is enough time for 250~ TF2 achievements, apparently.

Why you people care exactly? I wouldn't use SAM but why would I give a fuck if somebody else does?