achievements?

[guinevere]

any word on if there are any steam achievements?

[gino costa]

No steam achievements = no buy + denuvo

[ShivaRpgN]

This must be a mistake. They mention it in the description. If not then they’re worse than I thought

[Underdrill]

Ubisoft's steam ports are just embarassing. They are the only major publisher on Steam who does not consistently support achievements for their new releases. EA, 2K, Capcom, Sega, Activision, you name it; they will have feature parity with all of their versions without fail. But for some reason, Ubisoft's level of effort for Steam is so low that expecting them to support achievements is apparently too much to ask.

The Rogue Prince of Persia supports them, and that game is in early access. Avatar recently launched on Steam and supports them, and so will Prince of Persia The Lost Crown when it releases in August. When you make a specific effort to note 'updated achievements' in the store page, and fail to add Steam achievements when so many other publishers have no issue adding them every time, it's evidently apparent that they still don't really care much about the Steam Community, even though it is practically guaranteed that Steam saw the most sales for some of their games.

Either add Steam achievements, or I'm not buying. And it's not even about the achievements themselves at this point. It's about putting in the bare minimum effort for a Steam version of a game, providing support for a feature that smaller games with a few team members have no problem adding regularly. It is genuinely embarassing behaviour.

[APN34Z]

No achievements no buy

[G Smith007]

Originally posted by Timo654:

no steam achievements, probably just uplay ones

apparently they only have challenges and theres not even achievements on ubi connect. So theres some mistake dont you thin?

[Alph]

There's achievements on the console versions of the game... maybe it is a mistake.

[Rolf]

Any update on that? Can someone make a ubisoft ticket, my ubiconnect got locked out...

[V I D A L]

It's crazy to me that people don't want to buy games for the games themselves and instead they need some digital bragging badges to make them feel accomplished. Video games were better back on the 90s/2000s before achievements were invented. It's such a silly idea but somehow some people put that little extra above the games themselves.

[NoxNtella_TTV]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

It's crazy to me that people don't want to buy games for the games themselves and instead they need some digital bragging badges to make them feel accomplished. Video games were better back on the 90s/2000s before achievements were invented. It's such a silly idea but somehow some people put that little extra above the games themselves.

Or we refuse to buy a game that doesn't have the same full experience as everywhere else.

[Rizz]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

It's crazy to me that people don't want to buy games for the games themselves and instead they need some digital bragging badges to make them feel accomplished. Video games were better back on the 90s/2000s before achievements were invented. It's such a silly idea but somehow some people put that little extra above the games themselves.

I can still enjoy old school games and don't feel the need for achievements to be there while playing them, that's an entirely different experience from a different time period, it feels retro, just how it should be, and I'm someone who cares about achievements A LOT.

I like achievements not for bragging rights, but rather as memento's and timestamps of my time spent playing games, something I can look back on, that sometimes brings back fond memories. They also add a ton of replay value to a good game, and they add motivation to finish a game thoroughly, even if it's a bit mediocre.

The fact is, achievements exist in modern gaming now, and for those that like and care about them, for whatever their reasons may be, not having them when they already exist on other platforms (like consoles) is discouraging.

It's not like people are requesting achievements that never existed to begin with, and people choosing not to buy a game because those achievements are missing makes perfect sense to me, it's the result of 12 years of people asking for Ubisoft to add Steam achievements to their games, people asked nicely and even still bought their games back then, but it reached this extreme completely because of Ubisoft being incapable of change. In many recent cases, like Valhalla for example, they essentially devalued their own product on Stream even after years of exclusivity elsewhere, when the game was brought here simply because sales began to dry up like the Sahara, now that's sad.

One could say they're available on Ubisoft's launcher, but that launcher lacks both achievement notifications, and achievement overlay support, and at least for me, knowing when I unlock them in the moment is half the fun, that's how some of those fond memories are created, not to mention it just feels good to unlock them, at least the ones that take effort.

[robilar5500]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

It's crazy to me that people don't want to buy games for the games themselves and instead they need some digital bragging badges to make them feel accomplished. Video games were better back on the 90s/2000s before achievements were invented. It's such a silly idea but somehow some people put that little extra above the games themselves.

This.

Plus, Ubisoft doesn't care if a small number of gamers protest the lack of achievements anyway. Ubi's successfully ignored them with many of their Steam ports. It's just shouting into the wind.

[Ryder]

Please can anyone buy Ubisoft ? Someone who cares about steam community and their players ? Please 🙏🏼