Please add steam achivements to ALL EA GAMES on steam! Origin achievements way too isolated... and please if you do, make them retroactive, let game to send unlocked achievement to steam even if they was unlocked in this game on origin before, just add origin achievement check and sync with steam on game load.Its good idea to add this sync between origin and steam achievement and integrate steam api calls into origin itselt to avoid patching every game directy, so that whenever Origin launched from steam it just shoukd sends opened achivements for all existing ea games on steam that had achievements unlocked, or at least for one specific game which is launched from steam.

For that to work in older games i think updating ACTIVATION CORE files with most recent Origin files and integrated steam api would be enough and that also could be use for activation of achievments any further in any EA game, so none of games would need to be updated directly to pass achievement to steam.

Please pass this idea to Origin software engineers.


Update: oh wait i rushed to write this only after reading title, article says its already retroactive and works for many origin games, gotta check this, hope its done exactly as i said and every game with origin achievement will have them unlocked on steam.


Btw there are few old games like mass effect 1 and 2 that has no achievement integration into steam but has their own internal achivements system - i have idea how you can implement achievements for them without updating games directly.


Just add save game scanning algorithms into origin hook and add it as some hook dll to older games that has or even has not achievements, and check if achievement conditions was met in save data. And for achivement conditions that was not stored in game save files you can use this hooking dll to monitor in game memory for that condition state and store temporary conditions on server of origin.

For example lets say Mirrors Edge, original one that has no achievement on pc, had achivement fot jumping 10 times and this aint recorded in save game - let hook dll to monitor number of times player jumped and store it in local cache that got uploaded to server and synced every time so counter could continue betwen game sessions, and check it additon to game save file to monitor if achivement unlocked yet. You can call it an external achievement state cache file, i think origin already has something like this in games with integration of achivements, but it could be used within games that has no achievement and can be hooked to monitor process for met achivement conditions.

Hope to see this achievement integration in all old EA games on Origin and Steam.

my god , at last......... gunna go buy me some games now.... nice one!
need to at least make it somewhat mandatory to have them like sony!

No new content, no decent multiplayer, no new cars, nothing. Ghost Games made the best NFS ever made since carbon and your first response is shutting down Ghost Games, putting Criterion in charge, and adding basic steam features so you can have the excuse that you're doing something. I quit NFS. From now on i will only play simulators.

Good choice, achievements are always nice!

They're not retroactive. I got a bunch of achievements on Origin and they didn't apply to Steam. Also, this isn't really a "major update". Very minor and superficial at best.

huge POG

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终于可以显示已经解锁的成就了!!!

♥♥♥♥. I thought i automatic unlocked all achivements cause of the picture xd

YEESSS

Yey, and convert the rest of all EA games!



I want all classic EA games to be released such as the Saboteur my favorite open-world game back in 2009!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXuiUkeYk50

retroactive? well suck my butt and call genny cuz i didnt get my NFS Heat achievements and i completed the game :?

Hell Yeah! Can't wait to do get them all! Achievementhunters, go for it!

POG