It's not only with newer games, even older games get affected. It's the people which cry for shop-specific online features.

Achievements itself never have been a problem, online-achievements are the problem. The good old days when people had a life and did not need online-achievements to brag about...

Or to get their dopamine fix....also well said.

I meant they seem to push for such more than some other things(and course less than things like galaxy), and by complete I meant all/most SP content is usually in the package for a number of games.

(as for OS/language support: Yeah, such is sometimes lacking[more so for linux versions]. Of course, if the different OS/language versions are controlled by different parties then it's sadly up to them if they get released here)

I don't know how many of you watched this, but I think it says a lot about Bethesda, or should I say about their writers/designers/leadership... With Pagliarulo, Pely and Howard sharing their thoughts, this video pretty much sums up Bethesda's understanding and approach of Fallout. But somehow it goes far beyond that...
Fallout 3: Bad Karma

Proprietary/shop-specific online features:
Also true. I remember when most multiplayer games were using GameSpy - and well, that service is gone. Some games got no new Multiplayer suite; some got moved over to Steamworks; etc etc.

Makes me wish for more games to allow for LAN/TCP-IP support, like in the old days.

Also, I do wish a lot of these skirmish MP's....got re-worked into offline modes w/ bots. Or some MMO's, which are very single-player friendly like The Secret World/Secret World Legends - got re-worked to also work as an offline game.

Achievements:
IIRC, even games like Divinity 2, that had their own Achievement section built directly right into the game. We need more of THAT again. And then, once the game realizes you got the Achievements offline - and then say uploads it to Steam or GOG Galaxy, if it can connect; and if it can't connect to those online servers, it will try again to connect some other time and just let you keep playing.

We've also already got enough madness going on w/ PS3/4/Vita preservation and now w/ the chance that PS4 games in the future, if PSN goes down/gets its plug pulled and it can't connect to PSN - well, Trophies are what can cause your old games to not work. See this here on YongYea about this new mess - https://youtu.be/hNTOLRLUqWw

I'm not an Achievement-Hunter and all - but I do think it's cool when I get one and a pop-up says that I achieved something. Most of the time, I ain't hunting - I'm just playing the game, old-school style: just to play-through.