Steam deleting achievements?
I've noticed that since yesterday my achievement numbers have dropped by over 30,000, with a drop of 8 perfect games. Some of my friends have lost 150k+ achievements here.
Wondering if this is a bug, if anyone else has experienced it, or something intentional from steam to remove achievements from profiles...
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Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Magla:

Oh great. Then you can dig up that announcement and prove me wrong.



Valve? You must be kidding. Just look what happened when new UI was released. Deleted posts, locked threads, banned users, etc. I wish Valve would act even a bit professional but i guess that isn't something they're into...

I cannot dig up what not exists.

Also no, UI threads were not just deleted. They were mostly merged into one big thread about it instead of having hundreds of one-replay threads.
Just stop making stuff up and bring in things that are not even related.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TKOdarkshadow:
The entire point of achievements is to show them off. Not being able to have them included in the count is effectively removal. Things were changed with no warning and no one who’s stuff was changed was consulted. Unless Valve’s going to come out with “we don’t talk because literally no one ever praises us” I don’t want to hear it. They’re a billion dollar organization, they can handle some minor complaining. Unless it’s journalists saying “Valve’s racist” in which case Valve will change whatever it is almost immediately.

Also the entire reason shovelware games were even an issue was because of Valve letting them on the platform. Even now, Valve still lets shovelware games on the platform. :calm_creep:

So you expect them to ask everyone of the thousands of people who were affected by it or what do you mean by "consult"? Aks the developers who they ceased doing business with?

No the entire point of achievements is not to show them off. If it's for you, that's on you. I am perfectly happy with my private profile getting achievements for myself.

"Shovelware" is not an issue. The developers of removed game tried to manipulate reviews, exploit the market or generally tried to scam users or one-upping Valve. They were removed for breaking their agreements, not for the quality of their games.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TKOdarkshadow:
Also as an add-on to this, literally all Valve would have to do in order to make me happy is add “achievements from removed games” to the showcase that already exists. It certainly wouldn’t be difficult, and that’s a compromise where they’d also be getting what they want. :lunar2019deadpanpig:

Kind of defeats the whole purpose of "no profile features anymore", don't you think?
I'm strictly speaking about the consumers, I don't think it'd make sense that Valve would talk to a game developer they just cut ties with.

Who's mass-collecting achievements on a private profile?... Just you? If that's what you mean, you're literally the first person I've heard of who does that, after years and years of achievement hunting and talking amongst other players.

Are you saying the consumers should be held liable for the actions of the developers then? Considering the consumers are affected as well, I'm not sure what to think about that. If the developers were already punished by having the games removed, then Steam's job should be over.

Not sure what you mean about the last point. :lunar2019deadpanpig:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Magla:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von crunchyfrog:

Valve implied or said - please demonstrate evidence for that as I've enever seen it.

If they did, then that is rather a silly mark against them.

But you need to demonstrate that is the case first.

So, you want me to "dig up" announcement Valve made 3 years ago but you can't even provide me simple definition of censorship? Right...

ALL claims have a burden of proof. This is absolute logic.

If I told you I had a pet in my kitchen, you'd likely take that on face value. If I told you that pet was a dragon, well you'd rightly want evidence and it's MY burden of proof.

I don't care how hard it is to get - YOU made the claim and it sounds so unusual, of course I'm not going to believe it on face value. But if you can provide such evidence, I'll happily believe it and thank you for it.

That's how reasoning works.

And as for the definitions and explanation of cesnroship, again you are not using logic correctly. YOU claimed something was censorship. YOUR burnde of proof not mine. I simply doubted it, and when you explained or tried to, I pointed out the flaws with YOUR claim.

If you don't understand this, go and look up "the gumball analogy" in philosophy. You'll find Matt Dillahunty on Yourtube has done this.
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Perfect Thoughts:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von crunchyfrog:

Oh I understood. I was just addressing and ELABORATING on the point.
Nope, you did not.

Except I did.

Please demonstrate what was wrong with my claim.
Aachen 8. März 2021 um 12:46 
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Perfect Thoughts:
Nope, you did not.

Do broken achievements violate agreements between developers and Valve?
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Magla:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von crunchyfrog:
ALL claims have a burden of proof. This is absolute logic.

If I told you I had a pet in my kitchen, you'd likely take that on face value. If I told you that pet was a dragon, well you'd rightly want evidence and it's MY burden of proof.

I don't care how hard it is to get - YOU made the claim and it sounds so unusual, of course I'm not going to believe it on face value. But if you can provide such evidence, I'll happily believe it and thank you for it.

That's how reasoning works.

Really? You find THAT unusual? That Valve implied or said they won't mess with achievements? In order to calm their userbase. But you don't find it unusual that they decided to cut achievements from those games over 3 years later? Give me a break.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von crunchyfrog:
And as for the definitions and explanation of cesnroship, again you are not using logic correctly. YOU claimed something was censorship. YOUR burnde of proof not mine. I simply doubted it, and when you explained or tried to, I pointed out the flaws with YOUR claim.

If you don't understand this, go and look up "the gumball analogy" in philosophy. You'll find Matt Dillahunty on Yourtube has done this.

Except, you didn't point out flows. You just said it was not censorship and told me it is happening everywhere. Even after I actually quoted the definition of censorship in one of my posts and back it up with proof, you just dismissed it. On the last one you didn't even reply. I've given you multiple examples and your whole argument against it was: It's not censorship. If you continue with your claim that mine is wrong, please demonstrate or provide definition of actual censorship.

It doesn't matter whether I find it unusual. It doesn't change your burden of proof, so instead of trying to wriggle out of it, how about you just provide it?

Otherwise the ONLY conclusion MUST be to disblieve it.

No I didn't say any of that - I KNEW you didn't understand it. I said it was indeed not demonstrated as censorship (as YOU described). This does not mean censorship isn't happening - it just means what YOU claimed is censorship isn't. And that is what happens when companies want to sell more in a market, they change it. That AIN'T censorship.

On the last one I didn't reply? Maybe because you weren't getting it or I was asleep. I'm not infallible.


Now that evidence for your claim please or just say forget it. Either way's cool.
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Magla:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von crunchyfrog:
ALL claims have a burden of proof. This is absolute logic.

If I told you I had a pet in my kitchen, you'd likely take that on face value. If I told you that pet was a dragon, well you'd rightly want evidence and it's MY burden of proof.

I don't care how hard it is to get - YOU made the claim and it sounds so unusual, of course I'm not going to believe it on face value. But if you can provide such evidence, I'll happily believe it and thank you for it.

That's how reasoning works.

Really? You find THAT unusual? That Valve implied or said they won't mess with achievements? In order to calm their userbase. But you don't find it unusual that they decided to cut achievements from those games over 3 years later? Give me a break.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von crunchyfrog:
And as for the definitions and explanation of cesnroship, again you are not using logic correctly. YOU claimed something was censorship. YOUR burnde of proof not mine. I simply doubted it, and when you explained or tried to, I pointed out the flaws with YOUR claim.

If you don't understand this, go and look up "the gumball analogy" in philosophy. You'll find Matt Dillahunty on Yourtube has done this.

Except, you didn't point out flows. You just said it was not censorship and told me it is happening everywhere. Even after I actually quoted the definition of censorship in one of my posts and back it up with proof, you just dismissed it. On the last one you didn't even reply. I've given you multiple examples and your whole argument against it was: It's not censorship. If you continue with your claim that mine is wrong, please demonstrate or provide definition of actual censorship.
“But you don't find it unusual that they decided to cut achievements from those games over 3 years later?”

I felt this way earlier as well, it’s quite strange that Valve wants to set the standards years later instead of when it was actually considered to be an issue. Yet they’re not also not fixing other issues like games containing unearnable achievements. With help from one of the several achievement trackers, Valve could easily check and remove unearnable achievements from games, or at least throw them into a separate category of achievements.

Similar to achievements from removed games. They could very easily just make that it’s own achievement category as well, but so far they refuse to. Instead they’d rather just punish the consumers years later for buying games Valve said were “quality products.” :nonplussed_creep:
cinedine 8. März 2021 um 14:56 
Ursprünglich geschrieben von TKOdarkshadow:
With help from one of the several achievement trackers, Valve could easily check and remove unearnable achievements from games, or at least throw them into a separate category of achievements.

No they cannot.

What if the achievement was made unobtainable later in the game's life cycle? Defiance on PSN for example ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up all the DLC trophies because the deliver the game with an incomplete trophy list to the system. However, if you have it installed from before the ♥♥♥♥-up you can still obtain them.
If you simply remove them, then you have the exact same situation about people complaining why their achievements were removed. And this time they actually have worked for them instead of merely bought them.
And what happens if developers fix the achievements later down? Yes, this happens. Years later even.

Broken achievements are a GAME issue. Not a PLATFORM one. They happen everywhere. PSN, LIVE, Steam, GOG, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Kongegrate ... even in-game.

Do you even get the irony of complaining about Valve "removing" achievements or merely putting them into "a different category" (non profile featurable) and then ask for the very same thing to be applied?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Magla:
Really? You find THAT unusual? That Valve implied or said they won't mess with achievements? In order to calm their userbase. But you don't find it unusual that they decided to cut achievements from those games over 3 years later? Give me a break.

Again: never happened.
And you really think it's unusual for a company to change their minds later down the line? Give me break.

This is going in circles ...

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aachen:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Perfect Thoughts:
Nope, you did not.

Do broken achievements violate agreements between developers and Valve?

No. Hell, Valve themselves has unobtainable achievements on their games on other platforms.
Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:
Ursprünglich geschrieben von TKOdarkshadow:
With help from one of the several achievement trackers, Valve could easily check and remove unearnable achievements from games, or at least throw them into a separate category of achievements.

No they cannot.

What if the achievement was made unobtainable later in the game's life cycle? Defiance on PSN for example ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up all the DLC trophies because the deliver the game with an incomplete trophy list to the system. However, if you have it installed from before the ♥♥♥♥-up you can still obtain them.
If you simply remove them, then you have the exact same situation about people complaining why their achievements were removed. And this time they actually have worked for them instead of merely bought them.
And what happens if developers fix the achievements later down? Yes, this happens. Years later even.

Broken achievements are a GAME issue. Not a PLATFORM one. They happen everywhere. PSN, LIVE, Steam, GOG, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Kongegrate ... even in-game.

Do you even get the irony of complaining about Valve "removing" achievements or merely putting them into "a different category" (non profile featurable) and then ask for the very same thing to be applied?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Magla:
Really? You find THAT unusual? That Valve implied or said they won't mess with achievements? In order to calm their userbase. But you don't find it unusual that they decided to cut achievements from those games over 3 years later? Give me a break.

Again: never happened.
And you really think it's unusual for a company to change their minds later down the line? Give me break.

This is going in circles ...

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aachen:

Do broken achievements violate agreements between developers and Valve?

No. Hell, Valve themselves has unobtainable achievements on their games on other platforms.
If they put them into a separate list like I asked, people would still have said achievements as a viewable tab. Hell, with the percentages that exist, you could probably slap the now unearnable achievements onto the original perfect game percentage and get a perfect game percentage higher than 100% if you really tried.

I mean if Valve wants to be the ones who remove achievements from people’s profiles, the least they can do is have the courtesy to remove broken achievements from games. You know, something achievement hunters have been asking about for years now.

Nope? There’s a clear difference between asking for multiple categories of achievements and outright removal (they no longer show up on your profile.) I have never at any point agreed with outright removal. Not like making multiple categories or achievements would be hard though. :nonplussed_creep:
Atari 8. März 2021 um 15:24 
Not to derail the current conversation, but thanks to those who posted (about 200 messages back) what happened.

I lost about ~20 perfect games. For what it is worth, I find the debate in this thread interesting. I'm on team, "I don't really care; I like getting 100%s but the experience of playing a game is my main focus/enjoyment."
Mysterio 8. März 2021 um 15:49 
Ursprünglich geschrieben von Atari:
Not to derail the current conversation, but thanks to those who posted (about 200 messages back) what happened.

I lost about ~20 perfect games. For what it is worth, I find the debate in this thread interesting. I'm on team, "I don't really care; I like getting 100%s but the experience of playing a game is my main focus/enjoyment."

Well said. I feel pretty much the same way. It's not really a big deal, but it's interesting to speculate on what exactly prompted all of this to happen so suddenly.
Metshael 8. März 2021 um 17:06 
Ursprünglich geschrieben von TKOdarkshadow:
If they put them into a separate list like I asked, people would still have said achievements as a viewable tab. Hell, with the percentages that exist, you could probably slap the now unearnable achievements onto the original perfect game percentage and get a perfect game percentage higher than 100% if you really tried.

I mean if Valve wants to be the ones who remove achievements from people’s profiles, the least they can do is have the courtesy to remove broken achievements from games. You know, something achievement hunters have been asking about for years now.

Nope? There’s a clear difference between asking for multiple categories of achievements and outright removal (they no longer show up on your profile.) I have never at any point agreed with outright removal. Not like making multiple categories or achievements would be hard though. :nonplussed_creep:

Steam did not remove anything from those games, they've just hidden already existing features from appearing on the users profiles. My guess is that Steam didn't even hide those achievements specifically, i think they just put those banned games under the "Profile Features Limited" tag but i can't verify this since there is no store page for those games anymore (which made me wondering if a "Features limited" showcase would be possible but at the same time that would be contradictory to put them under the "Profile Features limited" category and to show them on the profile... i'm just stupid :squirtheh:).

They can't directly modify features, like removing or even hiding broken achievements, only those who own the game have that right unless of course those features doesn't respect Steam rules (like a few weeks back, a game was apparently hacked and they modified pictures for the cards of said game to show real murder pictures, Steam removed those cards and they had the right to do so since they did not follow the rules).

Putting those achievements under a new category would be like modifying them and even if they are not in contract those who own these games anymore doesn't mean Steam own them.

But i agree with you, something should be made for some achievements, and i'm not even talking about broken achievements, especially when workaround exist like mods and even SAM, but i'm more talking about Troll achievements that a developer create just to troll achievements hunters by making it unobtainable even through mods or SAM (like the "Level Four Revive Materia" from Hate Plus, still at 0% after 7 years since release). But sadly like i said Steam can't modify anything from a game, they can't remove an achievement, it's up to the developer to "fix" their games, what they could do however is offer the users the possibility to reset their achievements progress from their account for any game they want so it goes back to 0% and doesn't count toward your "Avg. Game Completion Rate" in your showcase (and after that you can simply ignore, hide or even remove that game from your account).
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Ursprünglich geschrieben von K𝗂w𝗂:
The games from where the achievments are gone
Did you heard about them ? , me neither

- !4RC4N01D! 1
- !4RC4N01D! 2 - Retro Edition
- Abscorning Zatwor
- Achievement Hunter: Begins
- Achievement Hunter: Darkness 1
- Achievement Hunter: Darkness 2
- Achievement Hunter: Pharaoh
- Achievement Hunter: Urban
- Amaze Achievements: Darkness
- Amaze Achievements: Forest
- Angels That Kill Demo
- AppleSnake: Christmas Story
- Arcane PreRaise
- Arcane Reraise
- Archery Practice VR
- ASCII Achievement Mania: Space Shooter
- ASCII Game Series: Beginning
- ASCII Game Series: Blocks
- ASCII Game Series: Maze
- ASCII Game Series: Pinball
- ASCII Game Series: Snake
- Base Squad 49
- Bitcoin Clicker
- Block Competition
- Bold New World
- Bootombaa
- Break Into Zatwor
- Catacomb Explorers
- Dad's Co-worker
- Dragon Souls
- Dreaming About You
- Epic PVP Castles
- Family Cobweb
- Fiends of Imprisonment
- FlChess
- Food Hunter
- GooCubelets - OCD
- GooCubelets - RBG
- GooCubelets - The Algoorithm
- GooCubelets - The Void
- GooCubelets 2
- Gravity Wars
- Grindzones
- Hard Cube
- Home Alone Girlfriend
- Laseronium: Over the Line
- LA Soul
- Lost In Space 1
- Lost In Space 2
- Nasway
- Navy Field IV
- Out for Blood
- Pigmentum
- Qubburo 2 (formerly known as Voxelized)
- Rage Parking Simulator 2016
- Ride With Son
- Robo Encryption
- Run Away
- Run, Goo, Run
- Simulator Hipstera 2k17
- Sisters in Hotel
- Sleengster 1
- Sleengster 2
- Space Explorers
- Space Mining
- Sudoku
- Tesla's Best Friend
- The First Spark
- The Last Photon
- The Magical Silence
- The Safeguard Garison
- The Safeguard Garison: Space Colonies
- Three Candyberry Match
- Torch Cave 1
- Torch Cave 2
- Tracks of Triumph: Industrial Zone
- Tracks of Triumph: Summertime
- Tracks of Trumph: Good Old Time
- Trashville
- Turn Around
- Turret Termintor
- Universe In Fire
- Warp Rider
- Winter Cold
- Woodle Tree Adventures
- Zen vs Zombie

I did know most of those games. To be honest, some were badly made. No doubt,but then there's a few that were okay made and the ASCII games were pretty fun imo. Maybe the retro feeling helped. the Safeguard Garison and Tracks of Triumph were entertaining games and even challeging. But maybe that's because I didn't expect much from them. I just rate games on how much fun they are..
THIS IS MOSTLY GOOD NEWS, when it comes to achievement clickers and crap like that, those apps kinda nullifies the point with achivements .. i mean what's the point when you can literally BUY 10000 achievements with an euro and a few clicks, if this is the case THERES NO POINT in having achievments at all, i recently discovered this "ACHIEVMENT CLICKER" , where a guy had 5k + 5k achievments just from these apps, they should be REMOVED from steam cause they make regular achievements pointless, it's very disepointing to see people with 20k + achievements that hasn't really earned them by actual gameplay.

To me this is very upsetting, then again i'm not one of those that will buy achievments .. fkin lame to be honest, REMOVE all these crap "games" , very annoying ... :steamthumbsdown::steamthumbsdown:
spiti 9. März 2021 um 3:58 
Seems like the missing achievements are back.
Ursprünglich geschrieben von spiti:
Seems like the missing achievements are back.

Again, they never left. They always were there, just not part of the global tally.
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