Blacklist-curator for achievement spam games

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With the current flood of achievement spam games on Steam, I have created a curator list based on the list of spam games marked by the achievement hunter site AStats.

To some degree I did it for my own use, to easier notice these and avoid accidentally getting one. (I already saw several of them pop up here on SteamGifts.)

If you think you'd find it useful too, you can follow it here.

6 years ago

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L1NU5

What if I told you I'm a sucker for achievements and I'd follow your curator for the opposite reason
(ie it's a good way to keep track of easy achievement games)

6 years ago

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kazerniel

If you don't mind that those achievements don't mean anything other than that you fall for the cheapest money-grabbing tactics, by all means, go for it... >_>

6 years ago

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L1NU5

Wow, I didnt know the Steam situation was SO BAD.
I mean, I like achievements but some of those games are just flipped assets from unplayable games that don't even work. They're just made for (literally) FREE achievements.
Take "It's Village" and "Village Story" for example. I'd ask the "devs": is it worth the "effort" (and the hate of many people) only for a few dollars?
I regret my words. I won't buy these games even if they come with 39486468943287 achievements.
EDIT: related video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtvVHSE6gHs
Fucking greenlight must dissapear from existence

6 years ago*

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kazerniel

Yeah u.u

This flood started in June, around the time Steam introduced Steam Direct, and trashy devs couldn't make trading card farming "games" any more. Afaik Steam has now started limiting new games for 5000 achievements at most, which is still ridiculous, and games circumvent it anyway, by making basically identical games (see that Raccoon Hero series).

Also Greenlight has already disappeared with Steam Direct, but it doesn't seem to make a difference in this :/ People still buy these games for the thousands of meaningless achievements, so the devs keep making them for a quick money. I hope Steam soon takes some proactive action against this practice.

6 years ago*

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NobodyNo

It's a market, baby!
Demand generates supply.
Community of achievements hunters has itself spawned these games.
PS. Subscribed 30449223

6 years ago

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kazerniel

Community of achievements hunters has itself spawned these games.

Yeah, that must be why achievement hunter sites try in various ways to cap or nullify the achievement points coming from these games...

6 years ago

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NobodyNo

It is necessary to separate @user community from @managers of the asstats (yes-yes, this is site for which we speak).
Any action gives rise to opposition:
- it was 100 achievements of 1 point
- make 300 - restriction 0.5
  1000 - 0.1
  It's like an arms race.

6 years ago

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lext

It's just taking achievements to their logical conclusion. It was always just a meaningless number. Now it's more obvious than ever.

6 years ago

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Kathleen

the ZUP-games are fun to play at least ^_^

6 years ago

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