Selling or trading achievements you dont need

[TTVDeathSeeker95]

I am siting here in my dining room... looking at my steam profile.. checking the stats etc..Oh well let's go to check what achievements i got..looking trought the achieverments and bam... i saw Dead Island : Epidemic achievements... i know that the game is closed .. and that is the point some people maybe played dead island for a long time .. missing like 4-5 achievements to have it fully completed.. and on the other side there is a guy that has them all but he doesn't need them... i think it would be a good idea to give a chance to the collectors.. so they can have everything finished :D What do you think guys... ?

[HEART]

Originally posted by DeathSeeker:

I am siting here in my dining room... looking at my steam profile.. checking the stats etc..Oh well let's go to check what achievements i got..looking trought the achieverments and bam... i saw Dead Island : Epidemic achievements... i know that the game is closed .. and that is the point some people maybe played dead island for a long time .. missing like 4-5 achievements to have it fully completed.. and on the other side there is a guy that has them all but he doesn't need them... i think it would be a good idea to give a chance to the collectors.. so they can have everything finished :D What do you think guys... ?

I think your math is off, you have 31 of 54 achievements for that game.

And no, sharing achievements would be no different than achievement cheating.

[TTVDeathSeeker95]

some people played dead island for a long time ... that some people isn't me :D i don't think it would be achievement cheating... you know why ? becouse it wouldn't be free... and if i give you something i can't have it ... so i don't agree with your opinion.. but hey.. everyone is free to have their own opinion :D

[HEART]

Yes, true, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I appreciate you saying that. I've stated mine. I have nothing personal against you, I just don't agree.

[TTVDeathSeeker95]

Originally posted by ✴ Celestial Fatality ✴:

Yes, true, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I appreciate you saying that. I've stated mine. I have nothing personal against you, I just don't agree.

Same here mate :D

[HLCinSC]

Doesn't that defeat the whole point of achievements? You get one for putting your time and skill into a game. Many people consider them badges of honor. If you can transfer them around then no one knows if you actually earned it or not.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by ✴ Celestial Fatality ✴:

Yes, true, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I appreciate you saying that. I've stated mine. I have nothing personal against you, I just don't agree.

except that some opinions are dull, completely egoistic and feature no benefits whatsoever to the collective.

achievements have no value, it makes no sense to trade or sell them, since all you need to do to get them is to send a simple api request to the steam servers and you can freely lock and unlock them like you want.

[Gwarsbane]

So I use a program like SAM, unlock all the achievements for a game, sell/trade them off for game items, and then I unlock them all again using SAM.


Achievements are suppose to be the reward you get for getting to a certain point in a game. This idea is a bad as getting experience points in steam for getting achievements. With programs like SAM around it will never work.

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by CharlestONE:

Doesn't that defeat the whole point of achievements? You get one for putting your time and skill into a game. Many people consider them badges of honor. If you can transfer them around then no one knows if you actually earned it or not.

I came here to post this. CharlestONE speaks for me.

[HEART]

Personally, if I knew I had "bought" my achievement I would be reminded of this every time I saw that 100% and it would bug the crap out of me. But that's just me.

[cinedine]

I know there are achievement services for consoles. But with SAM for PC this is beyond stupid.

And what would the market even be? Achievements people are most likely to miss to completion are the ones that take the most effort. And this effort is often only put in by people who want to complete the game. You don't pull of a 'no death on uber hard in one sitting without toilet breaks' through sheer luck to sell it. You dedicate yourself to earn it. Why would you waste hours on it to maybe be able to sell it?

[TTVDeathSeeker95]

Looks like you are right guys... haven't had that sort of stuff on my mind... i hope no one didn't got me wrong about my opinion

[JPMcMillen]

That's the risk with achievements in multiplayer only games. If the game dies and you didn't earn the achievements you're outa luck.

What really bites are games that are both single and multi player that you buy later on (probably a Steam sale) for the single player but are locked out of the multi player achievements because their's no online community. So you have to go in knowing that you'll never get 100% achievements.

[PillsburyDoughBoy]

Achievements aren't a trading thing. They're your own personal showcases that shows other people what you've accomplished in a game. Trading them would make the entire system pointless.