Do using Boosters disable Achievements?

[Phubs]

Anyone know yet? I sure hope so... for the sake of me even bothering to play.

[Twitch/MulderYuffie]

apparently not on Android at least.

[★~Hanakotoba~★]

Yep, I doubt it will. FF7 PS4 didn't disable trophies when cheating. Sadly enough.

[D]

This is getting ridiculous... why does it matter? These achievements are ultimately meaningless, and getting all bent out of shape because people are "cheating" in a non-competitive, single player game is petty.

[Sephiroth]

Originally posted by donniesmithers:

This is getting ridiculous... why does it matter? These achievements are ultimately meaningless, and getting all bent out of shape because people are "cheating" in a non-competitive, single player game is petty.

why even bother playing a game if you cant feel proud and have a trophy showing what you did?

thats why id rather it didnt have any at all

[D]

Originally posted by LV99 Vivi:

Originally posted by donniesmithers:

This is getting ridiculous... why does it matter? These achievements are ultimately meaningless, and getting all bent out of shape because people are "cheating" in a non-competitive, single player game is petty.

why even bother playing a game if you cant feel proud and have a trophy showing what you did?

thats why id rather it didnt have any at all

Your emotional reactions are irrelevant. And you still haven't explained why you feel so adamantly that this is the case.

When the ONLY goal of the E2PG is to get a 100% of FFIX according to a very strict definition, who are you to say yours is worth more than mine when all you did was waste more time grinding to RNG?

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by LV99 Vivi:

Originally posted by donniesmithers:

This is getting ridiculous... why does it matter? These achievements are ultimately meaningless, and getting all bent out of shape because people are "cheating" in a non-competitive, single player game is petty.

why even bother playing a game if you cant feel proud and have a trophy showing what you did?

thats why id rather it didnt have any at all

How dare they make you use them.

Oh wait.. they don't.

[Phubs]

I simply feel that if your going to have "Achievements" that you get them because they require the work and/or effort to get them. Otherwise why call them achievements at all? Seems more like a participation event if anything.

[Klaus]

It's a single player game, who cares how people play.

[DONT CHASE ILL FART]

Originally posted by LV99 Vivi:

Originally posted by donniesmithers:

This is getting ridiculous... why does it matter? These achievements are ultimately meaningless, and getting all bent out of shape because people are "cheating" in a non-competitive, single player game is petty.

why even bother playing a game if you cant feel proud and have a trophy showing what you did?

thats why id rather it didnt have any at all

For the experience.

[D]

Originally posted by garrettbackstrom:

I simply feel that if your going to have "Achievements" that you get them because they require the work and/or effort to get them. Otherwise why call them achievements at all? Seems more like a participation event if anything.

You can't guarantee people won't abuse turbo controllers, scripts, or hex editors to get these achievements in the first place. This pretty much removes any chance of meaningful competition from them

Also for the love of god if you people think getting all achievments will be so easy, then let's see it happen

[Phubs]

I just think it pulls from the merit of the game, truthfully. Obviously most of us have played it before but youcould certainly expect that this will bring the game to a new group of gamers.. and the beauty of their first expierence of the game is so easily flawed since there is a way to exploit your challenges. Half the fun of the game is overcoming the obsticles you encounter. Dont you think? Especially on your first play through...

[Qah]

I've done most of what the game has to offer, bar getting Excalibur 2, and I did it back on the PS1. I don't think I want to bother doing all of that again.

That said, I recently installed a mod for Darkest Dungeon which claimed to tweak values. I wasn't satisfied with the claim and decided to explore the files myself and discovered that some were rewritable. To experiment with the code, I bumped down costs of upgrade and purchase to 1 just to see how far you could customize the difficulty of your playthrough and ended up receiving a boatload of achievements in the process.

Of course, I promptly deleted the save and redesigned the values to ones that better fit my criteria of what constitutes a fair challenge, and began a new game with values slightly below the default ones on a select number of items.

This kind of thing was easy. Granted, I'm familiar with game design but I've never programmed a single thing and yet going into the game's files and editing what was necessary from the code itself was easy. I realize not all games' files are compiled like this but I'm willing to bet a fair number are, and for those that aren't, a fair number of mods or tools that make them so. Dark Souls certainly does and people wear that game like a silly badge of honour systematically.

If people still think achievements mean anything to anybody except for themselves, they're doing themselves a disservice.

On the flipside, if people just feel rewarded for getting those achievements regardless of using cheats or not, then why would that bother anybody else? Make no mistake: They're intrinsically worthless. But if other people think they have value, power to them, I suppose. Just so long as I don't have to hear how they're better than me at videogames and life, I don't really mind that they cheat their way to 100% if that's what floats their boat.

[Leijona]

Well I find it a bit stupid that boosters probably won't disable achievements, as they apparently don't do so in FF7 either after boosters were added in it.

I know that boosters won't make getting 100% of the achievements a cinch because of all the minigame related ones, but the game's advancement and challenge is still mostly reliant on combat. When these boosters literally enable you to be unkillable, how is defeating Ozma like that worthy of an achievement?

That is my biggest issue with it, since the boosters more or less completely take away the requirement for any skill and thinking in the actual gameplay. I know some percentage of players will just use SAM or modding to get the achievements anyway, but the game offering a way to do it by default just seems ridiculous in the light of adding achievements in the first place.

Sure it's a singleplayer game and all that, and I know FFs can be difficult if you just want to experience the story, but those people probably don't care about achievements anyway. So why would it matter if they were disabled? Not like it would take much work on SE's end.

[xJoni01x]

I hope it wont work. I know nobody is interested in my archievements and thats fine. I do it for me, but some archievements should be given for good work. I know killing Ozma is not a big deal, i am sure all of the people writing here, done all of the archievements (for me except 1000 jump ropes) long time ago.

But where is the archievement for killing ozma when you cant die and hit always with 9.999.

[Daddy Fuzzbottom]

You should happier that you beat Ozma normally over being happy that a little popup appeared saying you beat him anyway.

Really shouldn't be too upset over the boosters & achievements thing.