how do rare achievements work?

[charlize]

i mean, how does steam know when a achievement is rare?

i always thought that steam achievements, with only a handful unlocked, were about 0.1% rare worldwide or something, but i have plenty of rare steam achievements, for example from forza horizon 5, where one of my steam achievements is marked orange and only 8% have it unlocked globally, that is not "rare" anymore imo, isn't it?

[FFL2and3rocks]

Looking at my own achievements, it looks like the cutoff for "rare" achievements is under 10%.


Edit - Yup, I looked some more and I have a game with a rare achievement at 9.9% and a non-rare at 10.0%.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by broken nose:

i mean, how does steam know when a achievement is rare?

i always thought that steam achievements, with only a handful unlocked, were about 0.1% rare worldwide or something, but i have plenty of rare steam achievements, for example from forza horizon 5, where one of my steam achievements is marked orange and only 8% have it unlocked globally, that is not "rare" anymore imo, isn't it?

8% means only 8 out of every 100 users. That's not common. I guess everyone would have their own opinion about what rare really means but a line has to be drawn somewhere.

[AuricSage]

Does the rare badging on unlocked achievements go away when the player count for that achievement hits 10%? Like, if I earned an achievement when it was rare, and then more people earn the achievement until 10%+ of players have that one, do I keep the gold glowing border for mine? Or does it go away?

[Hi Im Swat]

Originally posted by AuroraSundew:

Let's not bump dead threads from over 1 year ago. If you have a question or problem, make your own thread instead of hijacking a dead one.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by AuroraSundew:

Does the rare badging on unlocked achievements go away when the player count for that achievement hits 10%? Like, if I earned an achievement when it was rare, and then more people earn the achievement until 10%+ of players have that one, do I keep the gold glowing border for mine? Or does it go away?

It'll go away, yes.

[Steven]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.