How is it, that only 78% of players have the first weapon upgrade achievement?

[michaeljhuman]

Seems weird, if 22% of players who have bought Doom TDA have not gotten that far. Is there a flaw in how the stats are calculated? Not important, just strange.

[jordyexists]

Some people buy games and add them to their backlog to play later or are gifted games they don't play immediately. Others might buy the game and then find out their computer doesn't meet the minimum specs, but are intending to upgrade their PCs in the future, so they don't refund.

I can't say it makes much financial sense to buy a game you're not going to play right at release instead of waiting for a sale, but that doesn't mean people don't do it.

I'm not sure if Steam's database calculates the user base with anyone who purchased the game, including people who refunded the purchase, but if it does include both, that would also explain the numbers. I can't think of any games where there is a single achievement with 100% completion rate and very, very few can I think of that have achievements with over 85% completion rate.

[Brussels_Sprouts_Are_Not_Food]

These stats are often really bizarre for many games. It's not uncommon for a good percentage of people to not even have the achieved the most basic achievement in a game. I guess, like jordy says above, many people just buy the game or are gifted it to play later.

[MILKElikeCAT]

Because Steam is a platform for buying and collecting games. Although this sentence is a bit funny, some players probably have too many games and don’t have time to play them, so they buy and hoard them and play them when they want to.

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I've finished too many games. I don't have much motivation to play games now. I'm mostly chatting, so I only play games occasionally. So far, I've only played "DOOM: The Dark Ages" to the 4th level. It's good compared to other games for me, but 70% of the games I bought are not played again... I'll play them when I want to.

[Dinosaurs_Are_Friends]

Players boot up once just to check it out, close the game, and either never come back or take their sweet time.

[alka]

Not all players are sweaty no-lifers speedrunning the game whilst posting 'I hate/I love the game' on Steam forums like we are?