Disable Achievements entirely feature

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Vortiene 24 Feb, 2024 @ 11:18am

Disable Achievements entirely feature

I find achievements only detract from the experience of games. It would be nice to be able to disable them entirely. Don't want to see 20% of games "completed" on people's profile based on arbitrary achievements. Or even see achievements at all. Means I don't want to see achievement lists on people's profiles, achievements in the steam desktop app, or in the overlay. This functionality already exists since some games don't have achievements. Just treat every game as having no achievements if a user has turned them off. And I do not want to see all the achievements I have earned while I had them turned off if I turn them back on! The feature should be entirely disabled while it's off. Or have two variations. "Off but still earnable" and "Completely off".

I dunno why this hasn't been implemented after so many years and so many people who can't stand achievements.

1. DO NOT RESPOND AS A USER SAYING "why would they waste their time on this feature?!? lololol" I see that on literally every suggestion and it's idiotic. Why make anything?

2. DO NOT RESPOND AS A USER SAYING "JUST TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS" genius. That's not the same thing. Achievements show up in many places outside of a notification while you're playing.

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Crazy Tiger 24 Feb, 2024 @ 11:41am

Yes, please. Though I'd already be happy if they simply aren't shown on the library pages anymore.

rawWwRrr 24 Feb, 2024 @ 11:45am

Originally posted by Vortiene:
1. DO NOT RESPOND AS A USER SAYING "why would they waste their time on this feature?!? lololol" I see that on literally every suggestion and it's idiotic. Why make anything?

2. DO NOT RESPOND AS A USER SAYING "JUST TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS" genius. That's not the same thing. Achievements show up in many places outside of a notification while you're playing.

You say this as if you'll get any non-user responses.

Originally posted by Vortiene:
I dunno why this hasn't been implemented after so many years and so many people who can't stand achievements.

Because like many Steam features, the simplest solution is to just ignore them.

Vortiene 24 Feb, 2024 @ 11:46am

"Ignore them" is not a real solution

13119205187913161 24 Feb, 2024 @ 12:54pm

would love to be able to at least turn off the flippin pop up, if not the whole thing

i want to try out that notes feature,

but i care nothing for the achievements and hate the popups that they come with

Crazy Tiger 25 Feb, 2024 @ 8:04am

Originally posted by KalCuey:
would love to be able to at least turn off the flippin pop up, if not the whole thing

Pop-up can be turned off via the toasts. I haven't seen a pop-up ever since they intriduced the setting.

Now, the stuff on the library pages, that's next on the hitlist.

Nx Machina 25 Feb, 2024 @ 8:42am

Originally posted by Vortiene:
I find achievements only detract from the experience of games. It would be nice to be able to disable them entirely.

If as you state they distract you from the experience why do you have 124 perfect games?

Vortiene 25 Feb, 2024 @ 9:49am

Originally posted by Nx Machina:
Originally posted by Vortiene:
I find achievements only detract from the experience of games. It would be nice to be able to disable them entirely.

If as you state they distract you from the experience why do you have 124 perfect games?

Because they choose to represent your completion of a game to be directly tied to how many achievements have been earned.

But I have more fun playing games that have no achievements.

So let me turn them off to end my suffering.

rawWwRrr 25 Feb, 2024 @ 10:01am

Originally posted by Vortiene:
"Ignore them" is not a real solution

It's *a* solution.

Ethanol 25 Feb, 2024 @ 10:04am

I have better solution, just use SAM, unlock all achievements, done, they will never interrupt you during your gameplay ever again!

Vortiene 25 Feb, 2024 @ 11:59am

Originally posted by Ethanol:
I have better solution, just use SAM, unlock all achievements, done, they will never interrupt you during your gameplay ever again!

Not a real solution, and I dont care if they interrupt gameplay in the first place
The point is they are used to track how much of a game you've completed, and this is an annoying and arbitrary metric that should be possible to turn off

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Tanoomba 25 Feb, 2024 @ 1:26pm

While I love achievements and feel they add to my enjoyment of games, I can understand why others might see them as a negative so I think being able to effectively "opt out" of the feature altogether would be a worthwhile option to have.

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Sleepy Yoshi 25 Feb, 2024 @ 10:36pm

I'm all for people being able to tailor their steam experience to their own preferences within reason. I don't see any issue with being able to opt out of achievements if someone so desires.

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13119205187913161 26 Feb, 2024 @ 7:05am

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
Originally posted by KalCuey:
would love to be able to at least turn off the flippin pop up, if not the whole thing
Pop-up can be turned off via the toasts. I haven't seen a pop-up ever since they intriduced the setting.

Now, the stuff on the library pages, that's next on the hitlist.

awesome!!! thanks

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Serendipity 26 Feb, 2024 @ 10:53am

I would gladly vote for this feature, I too would love to turn off achievements, they must distract from the game itself.

How can anyone actually enjoy a game when running about hunting for that achievement you so desperately want or need to jump on the spot for lets say 5 times just to get the Bouncing Ball achievement?

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ExperimentalGamer 26 Feb, 2024 @ 3:49pm

Originally posted by Vortiene:
Not a real solution, and I dont care if they interrupt gameplay in the first place
The point is they are used to track how much of a game you've completed, and this is an annoying and arbitrary metric that should be possible to turn off

Using SAM is the best you can do right now, since having all achievements on a game means you never have to think about them again and can define completeness on your own terms. Which is exactly the same thing that would happen if achievements were turned off entirely.

I agree that it'd be nice to have a toggle to turn off achievement tracking entirely on your own account. You can already kinda do this (the SAM trick mentioned above, or just playing games in offline mode), might as well make it a toggle instead of jumping through hoops.

Disabling the ability to see achievement completion on other people's profiles sounds like way more hassle than it's worth, though. If nothing else, people who like achievements should be allowed to have those shown. How someone else's profile looks to you doesn't really sound like a priority.

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