Achievements? Nope?

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Interesting thought...but there's already a level system. What would you add? Achievements for first and N number of non-bundled GAs? Public vs. invite-only?

I can think of a few things, but I'm wondering how creative we could really get with such a system. What are your ideas?

Ah yes, I once explored that concept of SG achievements and made a Google spreadsheet open to edit to all... I'm getting PTSD just thinking about it. :P

I later changed that to a private group with a spreadsheet. It was a fun novelty idea for a couple of weeks, then it died, and you just reminded me it ever existed. Just closed the thread to prevent necro-ing, so here's the link if you're curious.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/JgW7s/steamgifts-achievements-recruitment-thread

If I'm remembering right, someone made a script extension that added achievements to SG years ago. Included achievements for things like participating in community events.

It's a neat idea, but not something I'd really want as an official part of the site.

Steamgift Achievements can be found under Giveaways > View Won and Giveaways > View Created.

I´d like that, as long as its purely cosmetic and not connected to the point- or cv-system or anything.

I know I'm in a minority but don't like achievements on Steam so I wouldn't like them on here. When I can choose to play a game with achievements or without them, I prefer the latter. Actually, if a game has no achievements it shines for me, like for others games with them :D

Oh well xD

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Damn, I got tricked thinking this was an anti achievement thread. Oh well, live and learn :)

No!

I like it!!

There are achievements on steamgifts already. You are on 4/10.

Honestly, I wouldn't care one way or the other, but in my opinion, achievements are a complete waste of time, at least for the player. Developers started using them to see how much of their crap the players would put up with, which is why some are automatic as you get past certain parts of the game, and others are completely absurd things like, "Dodge 200 consecutive lightning bolts" or something. Unless it's something impossible (Daggerfall, for example), I 100% all of the games that I finish, and never once have I included achievements in that 100% completion; they're a developer's way to trick you into doing their chores. You could do the same thing with a child - "I'll give you an achievement if you take out the garbage!" "Okay, Mom!" - and to that end, it's even a little insulting. It can also suck out part of what makes games special. I remember being in charge of Game Club at the local high school, and my students were playing Left 4 Dead; one of them pulled this really slick move where a tank was charging him, and he backed off the building, hung on with his fingertips, and the thing just ran off the top of a skyscraper; I congratulated him for such a cool stunt, and he just said, "Ms. Kojiro (not my real name), that was for an achievement." DEFLATED. All of the neat little discoveries reduced to a soulless paint-by-numbers.

All that said, I did begin this post with "I wouldn't care one way or the other," and I do mean that. I think they're stupid, but despite having OCD and one of my obsessions/compulsions being lists, I'm more than capable of ignoring them. If SteamGifts had achievements, it wouldn't be any different to me from the 99 achievements I have at GameFAQs, a site that I barely visit; they'd just be... there. Granted, I don't even read my feedback notes at GameFAQs anymore, because most of them are just people telling me to kill myself for not including their favorite game in my top 10 lists, but even with a community that I like and care about like here or Backloggery, I wouldn't care about achievements.

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