What all goes into your average achievement completion?

[dynastystar]

I'm trying to increase my average achievement completion, so I'm going back through some of the games that I started but barely touched(so I got an achievement for dying, or for beating the intro boss, etc.). One thing I did to help clean up the achievements was I used SAM(Steam Achievement Manager) to reset my achievement progress for some of the games. Reason being is that it seemed like in order for the game to count towards your achievement progress, you had to have AT LEAST one. I thought this because when I organize my library by achievement progress on my profile, the games start being listed alphabetically after you get down to the ones you have 0 achievements in. To my amazement, after using SAM, my achievement average completion actually went DOWN even though the games I reset progress list are now lumped in with the ones that are being listed alphabetically.

So I wanted to ask people whats everything that goes into how its calculated. Is it because I had achievement progress already and I bumped those games down to 0% that was the cause? Does it count games that I've played that have achievements that I never got any? Does it go even further and includes games I never even touched? Does it include games that I've went into the game's support and got Steam to permanently remove from my library(something I did for trash games)?

[Callahan420]

Take this with a grain of salt

I would guess that once a game has an achievement unlocked that percentage is used from that point on. So removing the achievements set that game to 0% causing the value to drop.

Same thing happens when devs add achievements later on you lose the perfect game and the percentage drops.

Just a guess though

[ReBoot]

GSharp740님이 먼저 게시:

I hope you realize you can get ban for Sam. And you openly say you used it lol. People will say you can't but you can. You just admitted to cheating.

No, you can't. Not generally, anyway. Few games detect achievement cheating as cheating, but Payday 2 is the only example I can think of. Barely anybody gives a ♥♥♥♥ about achievement cheating. Valve themselves acknowledged it's existence, by the way, a while ago.

[dynastystar]

Callahan420님이 먼저 게시:

Take this with a grain of salt

I would guess that once a game has an achievement unlocked that percentage is used from that point on. So removing the achievements set that game to 0% causing the value to drop.

Same thing happens when devs add achievements later on you lose the perfect game and the percentage drops.

Just a guess though

assuming all of what you said is right, does removing games from my library removed them from being counted towards it? Removing one or two games from my bad games from my doesn't count anything towards my achievement progression

[Sleepy Yoshi]

dynastystar님이 먼저 게시:

Callahan420님이 먼저 게시:

Take this with a grain of salt

I would guess that once a game has an achievement unlocked that percentage is used from that point on. So removing the achievements set that game to 0% causing the value to drop.

Same thing happens when devs add achievements later on you lose the perfect game and the percentage drops.

Just a guess though

assuming all of what you said is right, does removing games from my library removed them from being counted towards it?

No. Once you unlock an achievement there is nothing you can do on your end, to stop it from counting.

[Washell]

dynastystar님이 먼저 게시:

Callahan420님이 먼저 게시:

Take this with a grain of salt

I would guess that once a game has an achievement unlocked that percentage is used from that point on. So removing the achievements set that game to 0% causing the value to drop.

Same thing happens when devs add achievements later on you lose the perfect game and the percentage drops.

Just a guess though

assuming all of what you said is right, does removing games from my library removed them from being counted towards it?

No. Once you started a game it counts and nothing you can do makes them not count. Removing games is just an advanced hide feature. It doesn't actually remove them from your account. If you want a 100% (or just a high percentage) achievement record, you really need to aim for that when starting your account.

Your options are SAM to set things you don't care about to 100%, or stop caring.

[dynastystar]

Washell님이 먼저 게시:

dynastystar님이 먼저 게시:

assuming all of what you said is right, does removing games from my library removed them from being counted towards it?

No. Once you started a game it counts and nothing you can do makes them not count. Removing games is just an advanced hide feature. It doesn't actually remove them from your account. If you want a 100% (or just a high percentage) achievement record, you really need to aim for that when starting your account.

Your options are SAM to set things you don't care about to 100%, or stop caring.

would it work if I contacted the developer and got the Steam Keys for the games I have no interest in playing revoked?

[Sleepy Yoshi]

dynastystar님이 먼저 게시:

Washell님이 먼저 게시:

No. Once you started a game it counts and nothing you can do makes them not count. Removing games is just an advanced hide feature. It doesn't actually remove them from your account. If you want a 100% (or just a high percentage) achievement record, you really need to aim for that when starting your account.

Your options are SAM to set things you don't care about to 100%, or stop caring.

would it work if I contacted the developer and got the Steam Keys for the games I have no interest in playing revoked?

No, this does not remove the associated data with the games. It removes the license just like refunding does. No more, no less.

[JPMcMillen]

dynastystar님이 먼저 게시:

Washell님이 먼저 게시:

No. Once you started a game it counts and nothing you can do makes them not count. Removing games is just an advanced hide feature. It doesn't actually remove them from your account. If you want a 100% (or just a high percentage) achievement record, you really need to aim for that when starting your account.

Your options are SAM to set things you don't care about to 100%, or stop caring.

would it work if I contacted the developer and got the Steam Keys for the games I have no interest in playing revoked?

Nope, because achievements earned from games you play during a "Free Weekend" will count towards your achievement stats, even though you never owned the game.