Apparently permanently deleting games is enough to remove unwanted achievements now

yep, but this bug was mentioned on the first page, so you're not alone.

It's the same as the idea of selling/throwing away things you no longer like... If you just shove your least liked shoes into the back of a closet, you'll eventually have to go to the closet for some reason or another and you'll just be reminded of all the trash (to you anyway) you hid, haha. Which, well, whatever, but also, why not keep the closet for things that bring you joy? Although you can argue that there's difference in space, physical items you get rid of because else you'd have full house, with digital games, I suppose it's not as easy to run out of space, esp. when you're just dealing with hidden licenses.

Hiding makes them easy to access anyway, which brings up some points raised by Pete on previous page. But hiding also doesn't remove them from the count on the profile. If I'd have 800 trash shovelware that I added because I was young and stupid, and there are 200 games that I actually play and enjoy - I may want to delete trash to see on my profile (and show to other people) only games that I like.

Oh I watched how hard you worked for those games, I'm happy for me but totally disappointed for you

Not everyone's happy, sorry for your situation. :/

Valve should arrange something for subscription games.

Unless it's a banned game, otherwise yeah. Still not ethical though.

May not be an official announcement but I'll attach this to OP. Thanks.

It has ups and downs I guess, at least until Valve finds a solution for situations like EA Play. Otherwise, I assume achievement hunters also hate cheesy achievements, like getting 5000 achievements by just owning a game.

There's achievements and then there's AGC. I like this "change", so far I have only removed Free to Play games that I have no intention of playing again.

If this really is the way Steam will be working in future, I may remove some shovelware games I will never play again. Playing some garbage game just to try it out and getting one achievement or a few tanks your AGC. Seriously I have one thousand hidden games, the vast majority of I did not pay for.

There is no official post from Valve about this so who knows what happens from here on out.

It is though. There are a lot of people who started out not being achievement hunters and whose account are now locked out of 100% completion rate because they have played games that have broken achievements, multiplayer achievements in dead games, demos etc

Now you can get rid of these if they're screwing with your completion rate.

You should try adding them back to your account just to check if you can get back the achievements as well.

What results were you hoping for though?
The whole point is now being able to remove games with broken achievements, demos and cheevospammer games from your completion score

No problem. :)

At this point even 1% change is big in my opinion, so congrats!

Also

(finally, goodbye Zup!)

totally worth it. :)

It seems so. :/
Though gotta ask Steam Support, wondering what will they have to say about this.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

It's seems there was a misunderstanding since they corrected this message with this new reply:

Hello,
Sorry about the previous message, we were not as clear as we could have been. We meant to state that when you cancel a license for a game it should no longer be reflected on your profile. This is an intentional update. As it's a new feature, you may experience intermittent issues while we work on perfecting it.
If you have a game that you've cancelled still showing somehow, please let us know.
Steam Support
Anthony

Apparently this is indeed a new feature but doesn't work correctly at the moment.

Yeah, the way I read this is that games you remove shouldn't count, so couldn't figure out how you decided that meant it was a bug, but they clarified in their next response, I guess.

From what I understand, when you remove the game, it also forgets you have those achievements, if you would add the game, the achievements are also back!
No clue how it would work with DLCs for free games or whatever...

Currently yes, it's the same as before. So doesn't work at all for now. :)

Doesn't work currently.

trivia plague

I guess many people looking forward to that day. :)

I can confirm it doesn't work.

Guess you're one of those lucky ones. :)
Though note that this state might be reverted at some point until the final update of the feature.

When the feature officially announced I think you might ask Steam Support to remove ties with that game, they can do that.

Well, last they said about this was "The issue is continually being addressed through Steam Updates." but no news since then. It might be they prematurely released it or something went wrong.

Yeah, it doesn't work and no news since then. Steam Support also don't want to talk about it anymore. I hope they're just polishing it but I wonder what really happened.

Valve time strikes again I guess. :)
At least this is another confirmation, hope they can finalize it soon.

Actually removing a game doesnt require buying it again as you can restore games the same way it can be deleted. So you can delete then if you come across it in the future go you know what lets replay

But maybe people will stop downloading games for the sake of it showing up on their profile then complaining cuz its a steam learning game. Its a been a thing for so long and people still thing games are bugged its insane! But I don't do that myself so it wouldn't surprise me if they keep the game on their profile anyway because it seems like a sin to delete thing

Oh you are new. The calling of deleting achievements really summoned you, you are with your people here

Permanently deleting a game via support page doesn't actually permanent and you can bring them back again the same way via support. What I understand from this future feature, they will just cut ties with the achievements and the profile, if you undelete a game later, the previous achievements you obtained shall return.

A little anecdote though, if you bought a game in a bundle you cannot delete a game alone without the bundle as well. Just for this case, if you want one of those games back but not the other ones in the bundle, you should buy it again without the bundle.

Also, welcome to SG.

Yes, the Steam support said it was an intentional update however developer team is still working on it to perfect it. My guess is something unwanted happened and they're trying to fix it. Or it could be just Valve taking things slowly as usual. :)

They also stated that it should already be working but might not work for everyone, though haven't seen it actually works for anyone yet.

If it's a free-to-play game unfortunately those stats will stay. I hope they change this too but I doubt.
(Currently it doesn't work anyway though).