No tedious Steam Achievement's for HOI IV Please

[Kollatius]

You want easy? Go back to playing [insert the easiest game you can imagine here]

 

[The Balbinater]

You want easy? Go back to playing [insert the easiest game you can imagine here]

asteroids?

link supplied for the young and uninformed )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)

 

[inteljoe]

Hello Paradox

Can you please bring down the difficulty or amount of steam achievements that can be obtained in HOI4 and paradox games in general. I enjoy the occasional difficult steam achievement, but generally most are tedious and when attempted are often thwarted by updates or expanions, which can be annoying.

I understand steam achievements & the percentage figure in your profile is just a meaningless number with no actual value then bragging rights, and the enjoyment should come from playing the game naturally, but i do personally like to hunt achievements, but i feel there are to many exclusive achievements per faction, that require a considerable amount of time to play, while some factions i personnally don't have any interest in, i really don't want to see steam achievements like "Conquer the world has Brazil before 1948 "

Also it would be really neat if you could make achievements obtainable through multiplayer, the most fun i have from paradox games is from the mp, but i feel urged to spend time in singleplayer mode grinding out achievements, while i'd rather be playing with someone, why can't we do both? and earn achievement while in a MP game, even if some of the achievements can be gamed, it shouldn't matter to much since for most it will be considered a null figure anyway, but i believe even for those hunting achievements, being able to play either co-op or PvP with other players to earn or personally thrwart achievements would be alot more fun, then dismal tedious singleplayer achievements that want you to beat it before the next update/expansion corrupts it.

Tbh i find myself looking at steam achievements of a game before buying it, it can pretty much tell you what your be doing for the course of a game before purchasing it, i often weigh in my free time & how long i believe i'll play it before i shelf it, how much i want the game, i then look for achievement guides and see if a 100% complete is near doable, and then buy it. If the steam achievement are stupidly dull & tedious, i will just skip it, since most games are a flavour of the week with a billion achievements. The only exception i have made to this rule is good must have game that i'm willing to take the hit to the achievement percentage like paradox games, but i'd wish they wouldn't over do it with the amount of tedious steam achievements that can only be obtained in singleplayer.

Ignore this man!

Make as many inane and insane achievements as possible. From the unthinkable to the impossible. And historical if you guys have enough time.

 

[Tekoa]

No need to worry about this, the game is never coming out anyway!

 

[SuiciSpai]

"Achievement Yay!"

-You Launched the game, YAY.

"Achievement I can read"

-You started the game using the start button

"Achievement Survivor"

-You survived as any country one day!!




Now you are prepared for multyplayer, congrants!!!

 

[CptWilly]

I still think Stanley Parable has my favorite Steam Achievements ever...

They include "Go Outside" which involves closing the game and not playing it for a period of five years.

 

[Bernard Black]

Since PDX games are very much sandbox i like the achievements for they give you a set of goals for a campaign. This way you can look through the achievements and see if you think trying one of them could be interesting and worthwile. If you don't like it, you don't have to play for achievements and if the steam data is correct a lot of people do. There is a fundamental fault in your reasoning if getting all of the achievements in a game is required for its enjoyment, i feel. Paradox games can not be finished in a classic way, they are meant to be played continously when you find the time for a campaign or whatever you want to do. You are finished with EUIV when you say you are finished, not because you completed some arbitrary threshold. Achievements can give you always a reason to play, but should't be the reason alone.

Regards

 

[CptWilly]

You are finished with EUIV when you say you are finished, not because you completed some arbitrary threshold

Hear, hear. In my case, I will know I'm finished with EUIV when EUV releases, though I will find the time I play it ebbing and flowing as other releases hit and life demands more or less of my time in other ways.

 

[Cymsdale]

It's very freeing to give literally zero ****s about achievements, you should try it.

 

[RELee]

I never play to gain achievements. When I accidentally get one, which I do occasionally playing Cities, I throw up my hands, shake my head and snort derisively at all the hype and foolishness.