Hi, regarding your submission of Incredible Dracula: Chasing Love Collector's Edition:

There is a bunch of achievements unlocked at the same time at the beginning (Unlocked 3 Feb @ 11:29pm), is there any reason for that?

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Weird, probably something with how the game synchronises achievements. I don't recollect anything special happening like network/stem issues. When you mentioned it I noticed that few other achievements were reported in pairs as well.
Hard to say, maybe it doesn't save them to steam on the fly but after a mission? (There's an ingame system with notifications and there I think I only once got two achievements in a row)

Give me a sec and I'll check in game whether there's anything more available there

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I recall Steam having some weird issues with it being down a few hours at a time for a couple of days but I was not 100% if it was on the 3rd of February or not. If you could give me a screenshot of the ingame achievements(if that is an option there?) it would be great. I will approve it either way since the rest of them look fine to me, but just to have some proof if someone comes at me and asks about them.

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Added to the submission and sorry for the trouble I did not notice anything weird on my side(like a client crash or network issues) while playing the game. If not for your message I wouldn't notice that at all

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Ouch, you were right about a server side failure - https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/mlp6D/steam-down/search?page=3#lDy8mbU
Probably I managed to get few achievements while the community webservice was down and they recorded next time the game synced. There's one lesson learned - steam integration doesn't add timestamps to achievements - it's done server side. Funny how such issues sometimes reveal how does a system work internally

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Damn, I sure have a good memory for completely useless stuff. I far as I know how the achievements then unlock it depends a lot on the game then so I guess you got lucky the did register after the fact. Thank you for the screenshots and clarifications! I approved your playtime :)

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Thank you and apologies for the need to hunt me down(as the game has achievements to track the progress I did not believe there could be anything wrong with the submission). I noticed the new rules yesterday and added clarifications regarding time, but I really did not think of any other possible issue which would require clarifications. I'll certainly remember to post some ICOE reply in the new thread

TBH I didn't know that achievements were so messy. I had some problems years ago with Risen 2, but that's a Piranha Bytes game if you know what I mean ;) Play time can be messy for sure. That used to break a lot especially when staying in offline mode(it used to be the only way to turn off status updates before the privacy changes), but that was the only issue I was aware of.

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The playtime actually didn't bother me, just the achievements did. And since the rules are completely new everyone that has anything wrong gets messaged about it just in case they didn't get a chance to see it yet, otherwise it would be unfair.

I never played any of their games before, but as long there is an explanation behind why it is messy is all good :)

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