Steam, we need to have a talk about your achievement system...

Achievements should be well... achievements, when you don't have to do anything to get them what's the point...

People who think they are cool because they get a lot of such stupid achievements are stupid as hell. Everyone who tries to get achievements in normal games dont play these shitgames. There is no reason, no competition, no fun.

There should be a way, to remove/opt out those pesky achievements permanently - i'm not 12 anymore,
and lucky me @ 12 achievements weren't a thing, playing the game because it was good.

Achievement hunting on PC was already meaningless because of tools like SAM. Now, it's even more meaningless because you can earn hundreds of achievements in minutes. Hopefully after greenlight is gone, these kind of games won't make it to the store anymore.

LOL!

Thanks for the laugh. )

I used to like getting achievements on Steam, I mean I know you can use tools like SAM but I never have. All these cheap games should have had a cap on achievements years ago, and now developers are pushing trash games with the only draw being tons of achievements. Same thing with all the crap games being sold only for cards, and Steam has allowed it since it's still making them money.

Achievements should be personal, if it makes you feel better to add another 100% I'm all for it, everyone knows they are easy to get so what's the harm?

On the other hand, I do agree that the devs using it to cash on on easy money are abusing people who do like it. It was unique at first and a pretty cool way to edit and decorate your profile, I think it's gone a tad far now though. However if people are still enjoying it, then so be it! I don't understand people who collect games, people who idle free games for cards, rugby, opera....everyone has different tastes! :)

If achievements served any real purpose, yeah, limits would matter, but they are completely pointless, if you care about them, and want to brag to other who care, great for you, but, those same people would be unimpressed by something like this anyway, so it still wouldn't matter.

I don't know why anyone cares even for bragging rights with such a ridiculous percentage of achievements just being, you played the game achievements, I just can't care lol An achievement for beating the game is good, but achievements for beating every level, or even worse, just the damn tutorial, that's not an "achievement" it's the minimum necessary level of play to play the main part of the game.

Why doesn't steam just open a "Profile customization thumbnails" store and allow these devs to sell this as an icon pack there instead of having it sold as a "game"? Just pay the price they're asking and get the icons - that's obviously the only reason anyone would buy this. Same could be done with trading cards - Just allow people to sell trading cards that can make badges without having games attached to them. Would solve a lot of the "too many crap games" problem I think.

No point in doing so. I don't think achievements are all that much but more importantly they only have meaning as it relates to the game so other games have different standard for time and effort makes no difference whatsoever.

They are meaningless and useless.
Why would you care about achievements... and even care enough to complain about it?
How does a game having 10000 achievements or achievements that auto-unlock affect you?
If you play it you can ignore it, and if you don't more so.

It's most likely a marketing strategy. Some people will buy games like these only to increase their (meaningless) achievement count.
This way it doesn't matter if your game is shit, it will sell to a certain degree anyway. :)

Wondering why people would support that? So do I... Even more I wonder how these games get greenlit.

Everytime I see a bunch of people buying a game I assume it's either on sale for cheap or it has a crap ton of achievements. Now I know why I keep seeing people buy this one lol

I am not sure what is more sad that this game has over 4,000 or someone took the time to make that many.

its the new way to fuck valves new tradingcard rule. Its verry easy add 4K archievements poeple will play your game no matter it is shitty at all and valve think oh its great, poeple play the game, here are your tradingcards. And we are back to the start or should we say we have an additional Problem, sometimes im really sure only idiots work at steam.

Ultimate Shit Game (tm)

1) Cheap, like 1€ /w 90% coupon drops
2) 10000 achievements
3) Market items for launching game each day
4) Trading Cards
5) Use Stolen assets.

Rinse & Repeat for profits :P

Pretty stupid new trend where more and more jump on the train
Here even the old ones are deleted to replace them with the new nonsense
https://steamdb.info/app/501690/history/
https://steamdb.info/app/533710/history/

Now you're getting achievements for bottles, not for jumps. It was added because some people just used an autoclicker to play.

lol, no one buying now

100 achievements just for beginning the game
And 5294 more beyond that. Don't know why that isn't a number rounded to the hundreds, developer must suck too much at copy&pasting stuff.

File under: Fuck this shit.

Then don't play them.