Achievement sound

[grbolivar]

I know this has been requested/suggested before but I wanted to do it again.

Valve, PLEASE, after you took the time and effort to implement achievements, why not put a sound? I think it is ESSENTIAL some kind of sound when we get a achievement, I barely notice when it happens! Put something, a simple beep or something will not take you more than 5 min to implement.

The sound when we get a achievement is not only expected but needed.

Thanks.

[NewHyper]

That whould be awsome just like the xbox!

[Campo]

that would be pretty neat

[Ulquiorra]

also wrote on the subject, maybe steam used to add :/

[TheLetterTen]

Any update to this?

[grbolivar]

Nop, the worst thing is that the sound system is already implemented, you get a sound when you get a chat notification, and achievements use the same notifications system but without sounds.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Not that this sidelines the suggestion exactly (since a Steam-wide sound is not the same thing as one for one game), but if developers want to make getting achievements make a sound, they can already do it. Valve does it in TF2, for instance.

[ KARR™]

The abiliry is there already, the publishers just choose not to use it.

Go and play TF2 and get achivements, Valve put 'fireworks' sounds on for that game. If a game maker chooses not to use a sound, thats up to them.

It also detracts from some games 'atmosphere'.

[grbolivar]

"It also detracts from some games 'atmosphere'."

It is not excuse, all PS3/Xbox games achievements has sounds, and they can put a simple option on the config to turn off the sound.

[ KARR™]

Originally posted by grbolivar:

It is not excuse, all PS3/Xbox games achievements has sounds, and they can put a simple option on the config to turn off the sound.

No it's not. I was just saying that the option is there to be used, its just publishers CHOOSE not to use it and was offering a reason why they may choose not to.

[osmian]

I think it would be great.

[✪ Kerghan]

Ye that would be awesome.

[Raph The Raven]

Originally posted by grbolivar:

... PS3/Xbox games achievements has sounds, and they can put a simple option on the config to turn off the sound.

If this ever comes a reality on steam, make this option mandatory.
Not all of us are achevement "hunters".

[TheLetterTen]

I think it'd be best if the option was off by default, but can be edited. I think it should be a system wide thing, not just developer specific. Let us customize the sound as well we're we can upload a small audio file that can go off when Steam sees an achivement has been been earned.

[OverlyCriticalGamers]

Yeah, I would like having a little sound alert me to an achievement unlock. I really like the suggestion for being able to customize the sound, too. I'd just be afraid the default would be something that was really annoying to me, you know? lol

[Cronos]

Steam has my favourite achievement system BECAUSE of no sound.

It's like in Halo: Combat Evolved (2004) where it's so cool because the game just goes

"Checkpoint...saved"

silently