Remove some unreasonable Steam Achievements like "Meet the real Garry".

[Profile Name™]

Many sources say that the real Garry rarely ever, maybe never, plays Garry's Mod. Even if he does, there are literally thousands of servers at any given time. Since his profile is private, there is no way of knowing when he is online, when he is playing Garry's Mod, or what server he is in. Finding just one person in a game that has 50 servers would be too difficult, but there are thousands of servers at any given time. Also, why do we need to spend a lot of time playing in other people's public servers for an achievement? What if I only play the game 20 hours a month and only want to play with some friends on a private server? There needs to be a "FAIR STANDARD" to achievements. Steam should make developers remove the ones that don't meet the fair standard.

Some examples of bad achievements that were and are somewhat possible to get are 1.) I had to log into a game once a day, every single day, for over a year. If I missed two days, I would have to start over. This is an example of a bad achievement, but it was still doable. It would not be doable for everyone, but luckily for me I am disabled and at home a lot. And my laptop or internet never stopped working for longer than a day. 2.) In the Garry's Mod, there is one that requires a person to play for roughly 9,000 hours. Now this is a bad achievement. I don't like it. I have seen many serious gamers with only 200 hours of game play in their favorite games. The hardcore ones might have 1,000 to 2,000 hours of game play. But 9,000 hours? Come on. Yet, even this achievement is still 1% possible compared to "Meet the real Garry".

I just want Steam to consider FAIR standards for achievements.

Honestly, if there was a law statute that would let me sue Garry for this achievement, I would. Yeah, I know that achievements are trivial and that many people use programs like SAM to unlock them. But it just angers me so much about what a jerk Garry is. His game is way overrated and I read some stuff about how hard he was on cheaters and set up traps in the game to detect cheating. I would imagine that if I used SAM to unlock "Meet the real Garry" he would probably VAC ban me right away. But just how angry this achievement makes me causes me to want to start a class action suit against him.

[Drab]

Steam doesn't have achievements, games do.

[Satoru]

Achievements are made by developers. They can make whatever achievements they want. You don't have to get them, they are optional. You not liking them doesn't make them 'bad'

[76561198001062896]

Valve cannot meddle with the code of other games, also i hate to say but so far the achivement system wasnt their priority

[Profile Name™]

If a game is too broken, you can report the game and Steam can have it taken down until it is fixed. If an achievement is too unreasonable and difficult or even impossible to get, then it should be the same way. Report the game for their achievement and Steam should have them fix it. You guys keep saying that this is game coding and game achievements. That is true. But it isn't like an in-game achievement, like what some non-Steam games have. It uses Steam API, shows up on Steam Profile, etc. It is a Steam feature, therefore it involves Steam. I logged into Garry's Mod today, and just the DarkRP servers were over 1,000. I didn't wait to see how many servers there were, because it just kept loading indefinitely. It is impossible to find one guy in that many servers, especially someone who doesn't play the game and has all his information hidden and private. If games are allowed to make bullcrap achievements like that, then why not make it so games require you to travel across the world in real life before you can advance to the next level or unlock an achievement. Same degree of impossibility. So why not? There needs to be a FAIR STANDARD. I'm not saying get rid of every difficult achievement in the world. I am perfectly fine with many, or even most 0.01% achievements. I have some of those. But some of these achievements fall well below what is acceptable, and those are the ones that should be removed. Steam should care and be concerned enough and we should be able to petition to have the unacceptable achievements removed from the game. It would literally take Garry 2 minutes to remove that achievement, so it wouldn't be like we were inconveniencing him much by reporting him and having Steam tell him to fix his stuff. But Garry sure is inconveniencing everyone with his unreasonable prerequisites. Watch me end up suing Garry. I am not going to stand for this nonsense. I am sure if I look hard enough, there will be some law that he would be in violation of. In this day and age, criminals can sue victims and win money. So I am sure if I play my cards right, I can win a case like this.

[Gus the Crocodile]

You aren't owed 100% achievements on every game. If you're not happy about particular achievements you can give the developers feedback, you can write a review, you can perhaps refund the game if you feel really strongly and are still in the refund window. But it's their game design, and if they want an achievement for going to the pub with them then that's their right.

[SpunkyJones]

Let me get this straight, you’re going to sue? Over achievements? Cause they are too tough to get? You might want to rethink your priorities in life, sit back, have a bran muffin and chill, life’s to short to get worked up this much over these kind of silly things..

[Profile Name™]

I just have a clear vision of what is acceptable and what isn't. And that applies to all areas of my life. Like I said, I am fine with most 0.01% achievements that are hard to get. But a line needs to be drawn between what should be and shouldn't be. You are trolling me trying to make it look like I am making a big deal. But you are making a big deal of me making a big deal. Hypocrite much?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by NOT A MORON OR A COWARD:

I just have a clear vision of what is acceptable and what isn't.

Note that what you think is not universal

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by NOT A MORON OR A COWARD:

I just have a clear vision of what is acceptable and what isn't. And that applies to all areas of my life. Like I said, I am fine with most 0.01% achievements that are hard to get. But a line needs to be drawn between what should be and shouldn't be. You are trolling me trying to make it look like I am making a big deal. But you are making a big deal of me making a big deal. Hypocrite much?

Sorry but your visions arent as prioritised as other things on Steam

[Profile Name™]

What priority. It would take Steam 2 minutes to send a message to Garry's Mod developer and say "your achievement is not obtainable, please fix it or remove it". Are you telling me a multi millionaire company with thousands of employees can't take those 2 minutes?

[Gus the Crocodile]

I think people are telling you it's not broken, so there's nothing to fix.

[Seretti]

Why can't you send the devs a message? Besides, Valve only has a few hundred employees.

[Profile Name™]

If I could contact the developer, I would ask him to meet me in a server. Duh. Besides it is clear that he is a jerk since he made an impossible achievement in the first place. If there were only a handful of servers, his status wasn't private, and he actually played the game then I wouldn't think he was a jerk. It just shows how little he cares about actual human beings or doing what is right. It is "broken" because it is not realistically possible. But you trolls have nothing better to do than get in the way of my suggestion. It's okay. I know this thread won't do much, but I got it out of the way and I will be taking "further steps" in the future. Like I said, all I have to do is play my cards right. Even if I don't win a lawsuit, I will be sure to bring a lot of outside Steam media coverage on this very achievement, and I will do it in a way that doesn't help the developer or the game. Rather, I will make it so he has to offer a public apology.

[Profile Name™]

Also, I want to point out that the vast majority of the tiny fraction who obtained this achievement were people who played when someone was spoofing his Steam ID before he found a way to stop that, and people who just used third party programs to unlock the achievement. So really, the actual number of people who got it the correct way are very few, and that was only during the time when he actually played, soon after the game was released, which was forever ago.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by NOT A MORON OR A COWARD:

What priority.

The artificial one you are laying out.

It would take Steam 2 minutes to send a message to Garry's Mod developer and say "your achievement is not obtainable, please fix it or remove it". Are you telling me a multi millionaire company with thousands of employees can't take those 2 minutes?

Why should they given those achievements are not illegal not violate any policies in place. Unless you're magically now employed by Valve and are the achievmenet enforcer.

Should we take Dark Souls 2 off of steam because almost no one can finish the game? That's sounds pretty 'unreasonable' via your criteria