March 2 update, Steam no longer counts banned/removed games (or how to lose ~800,000 achievements)

I could be wrong but it seems mine didn't budge at all (at least not yet?), the perfect game count is the same, not sure about the achievement amount honestly, looks the same, and I know for a fact I have some spam in there.
Personally I welcome this change, I regret having launched those achievement spam games.

Not only they removed the achievements shown on your stats from the games removed from store, but you can't see them anymore (redirect to your profile) and you can't use them in your showcase anymore! I used some of them on my profile because they had letters and they just got removed and can't use them anymore. What a stupid change, at least let me showcase them.

I didn't lose a single stat on my Achievements Showcase

that explains a lot, thanks for the heads up.

It was about time.... Hopefully they get removed completely from the stats tracking. And maybe we'll see some improvements to the general stats tracking (eg. separate tracking for base game, DLCs, etc.)

IMO, at last they did something right. Hopefully, achievements will have some meaning again. Nice spring cleaning on their part :)

I'm curious what will be next. Hide already crafted badges from removed games thus decreasing steam levels?

Lost 30k+ achievements and about 9 games
That would've been confusing if I didn't see this 1st

Better late than never, I hope this sent a message to these "developers" and their customers... and finally we recover the old steam store,
BTW the old removed games like Afterfall InSanity Extended Edition are yet in the achievement count, that is a good thing too.

I'm kinda happy with the change. Lost about half of my achievements, but as my attitude has changed I do not want them anymore.

Good thing I never cared about achievements.

The amount of games with achievements that is displayed when you hover over the achievements "X achievements in X different games" didn't change for me. Anyone else?

I was surprised they still count those trashy achievements. After all many devs made games just to have "nice looking letters for the profile" or "drop steam cards". No reason to keep this on the store or on the profiles, as it only encourages people to follow. They removed ability to drop cards from new games ages ago, and now they get rid of achievements.

Don't think it has anything to do with "giving a pat to the achievement hunter community". They don't care about it, same as NVidia don't care about gamers by releasing "miners edition GPUs". Just business decision. Valve should simply moderate what ends in their shop, but that would be too hard. Better to ban most outrageous games months or years after they were released.

To those who don't see difference - get an achievement, the list will refresh

I'm pretty happy they finally did this. 2000 achievements disappeared from 7 games for me. And thats awesome. Got those games for free about the time when I started growing my library and of course got the achievements as well. Only after realized they are worthless and I don;t want them on my profile.

Two years ago, i "cleaned" my steam. I think i removed +250 games from my library, one by one. It was hard, i wasted whole morning for it but guess i did a good job since nothing seems changed in my profile.

Was kind of annoying going to my profile to see one of my showcases all messed up, and now having to use achievement pictures from a hentai game just to fix it. ^_^

This is good. I think demand for achievement spam games dropped a lot after the change to make profile feature limited games, but with this it also makes it fair, in that people who had tens of thousands of achievements from games that can no longer be bought won't have such a boost. Personally, I lost nothing with this update. (And yes, I've earned achievements since the update.) I think it was more luck than anything else as I've played some pretty trashy games, but I always avoided the ones that were selling achievements.
But who are we kidding, achievements are still basically worthless to anyone other than yourself and even then only as a measure of how 'complete' a game is before you move on from it.

Any game that has 100 or more Achievements is not counted now since many games with 100 or more achievements are achievements farming trash and not games.

not every removed/banned game is supposed to be a crappy cheevo spam game.
Some just had problems with licensing and stuff. (pay money to volvo, support indie devs, get their game removed..profit for volvo )
I enjoyed many indie games (which even had like 10 cheevos) but they got also removed from my account's perfect games counter.
Lost 250 games and like 700k cheevos :P (sad - yes, but dont care about the shitty 5k cheevo ones - i made a screenshot anyway)

Steam should stop rather accept any random trash games on their store. There is thousands of same copypasted games (from RPG makers etc).. question is WHY?

didnt notice that. but i dont remember how many archivements did i have.
but, finish games if i dont remember badly were 102 and now it shows 98