question about achievements % completion

[Nexures]

How does it exactly work? stupid question but I have 650+ games right, and I find that the % goes up very randomly. Sometimes I do 150 achievements and I get 1%, sometimes i do 250 and it doesnt increase at all.

steam definitely doesn't count games that you havent launched yet, right?

does it also stop counting games after a certain time ? for example, payday 2 has like 1200 achievments. I havent played it for 4 years i think. up until that time i was getting 1% of overall completion per 150 achievements. Ever since i booted up payday 2 after my hiatus i suddenly found that even after 200 something achievements my % doesnt go up. I havent touched nor bought any games .

Also, the % only cares about achievement amounts, not amount of perfect games right?

Anyone can shed some light? any articles or vids that can explain this weird maths? lemme know

[ReBoot]

-A game contributes to the percentage once you've earned an achievement there
-Not all games count for profile purposes
-Those things are, as anything else, delayed

[Marble]

You can use tools like astats.nl to calculate your average completion for you as well, if you think Steam's is wrong. You would need to change your library privacy option to public though.

[Nexures]

Originally posted by Marble:

You can use tools like astats.nl to calculate your average completion for you as well, if you think Steam's is wrong. You would need to change your library privacy option to public though.

i find that website to be completely useless. it very rarely counts stuff correctly, it thinks some achievements are cheats, some achievements are unobtainable etc..

[Nexures]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

-A game contributes to the percentage once you've earned an achievement there
-Not all games count for profile purposes
-Those things are, as anything else, delayed

interesting. why would a game not count ? is that confirmed info?

thanks for your input

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Nexures:

Originally posted by Marble:

You can use tools like astats.nl to calculate your average completion for you as well, if you think Steam's is wrong. You would need to change your library privacy option to public though.

i find that website to be completely useless. it very rarely counts stuff correctly, it thinks some achievements are cheats, some achievements are unobtainable etc..

Please don't doublepost. You can post two things at once. Watch me:

Originally posted by Nexures:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

-A game contributes to the percentage once you've earned an achievement there
-Not all games count for profile purposes
-Those things are, as anything else, delayed

interesting. why would a game not count ? is that confirmed info?

thanks for your input

If you don't believe me, look around the forum. There's still a thread going from people ranting about achievements not counting, be it yet (as the game is in its learning stage) or anymore (from removed games). The former, you can find official info about on the Steam blog. The latter, AFAIK the best source, if you don't want to take my word, that ranty thread.

[K-Driver]

Average completion % takes the % from each game, not the amount of achievements.

If you have a 1000 achievement game with 1 achievement and a 10 achievement game with 10 achievements, your completion % will be 50.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Nexures:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

-A game contributes to the percentage once you've earned an achievement there
-Not all games count for profile purposes
-Those things are, as anything else, delayed

interesting. why would a game not count ? is that confirmed info?

thanks for your input

Games that have "Profile features limited" or "Steam is learning about this game" on the store page don't count. As do games banned by Valve.

[Nexures]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Please don't doublepost. You can post two things at once. Watch me:

shush

Originally posted by K-Driver:

Average completion % takes the % from each game, not the amount of achievements.

If you have a 1000 achievement game with 1 achievement and a 10 achievement game with 10 achievements, your completion % will be 50.

hmm interesting. im curious why my % stopped going up

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by Nexures:

interesting. why would a game not count ? is that confirmed info?

thanks for your input

Games that have "Profile features limited" or "Steam is learning about this game" on the store page don't count. As do games banned by Valve.

hmm none of my games have any of those. where would the first two show up on the store page?

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Nexures:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Games that have "Profile features limited" or "Steam is learning about this game" on the store page don't count. As do games banned by Valve.

hmm none of my games have any of those. where would the first two show up on the store page?

I've quoted a post from Hotsauce (comes from a different thread). Check the images.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

3. There are also games that are in the "Learning" phase...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504975795

4. And also games with "Profile Features Limited..."

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1640772820

[Nexures]

thank you for that.

I dunno, i was just curious why the % isnt going up :P i guess steam is too random for people to know

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Steam banned tons of games which where sold literally for achievement hunting. There where games with 5000 achievements, usually cheapo gones made by chinese or russian developers. Then they limited the number of obtainable achievements and made various limitations towards freshly added ones.
Which is quite sad cause many really good indie games are caught in this "profile features limited" mess, for example one of my fav developers, Tonguç Bodur.

[Nexures]

thanks for your input. i never bought any games like that. +if i did my % would go up then :P

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Neither do I, despite I hunt achievements (though not hardcorely). I just would feel stupid to get 90 achievements for walking trough a single corridor.
But the fact is that thanks to this many indie games now carry this limitation. means they won't show up in your completion % until a certain number of people buys it.

[Nexures]

i just wish steam was more clear on how it calculates stuff. im still not 100% convinced how taht ♥♥♥♥ works. like all my issues started when i came back to payday 2.

[K-Driver]

Achievements from games with a lot of achievements have a lot smaller effect on your average completion percentage than games with less achievements.

Since payday 2 has over thousand achievements each achievement for the game is worth less than 0.1% for the game. And since you have over 200 games counting towards your average they're only worth less than 0.0005% each towards your average completion %.