I don't care about achievements, i've never cared. Surely there *must* be something folks see into them, but personally i don't need the game to show me a list of things i must do in order to have fun or feel "complete", then pat my back and say "Well Done!" to me every time i check out something from that list. What i expect from it is to make me genuinely interested in everything it has to offer, then leave me alone to do things as i want them, not as the devs dictate. Also, popups when i'm fully immersed in a videogame are a moodkiller.

A random scene from a random FPS game:

*player reaches warehouse* [achievement unlocked: find warehouse]
*player sees 10 armed guards inside*
*warehouse has something player needs*
*first kill is silent[achievement unlocked: perform 10 stealth kills], then guards notice player*
*big gunfight starts, bullets everywhere[achievement unlocked: fire 1000 bullets][achievement unlocked: reload 200 times]*
*player uses healthpack[achievement unlocked: use 100 healthpacks]*
*player kills rest of enemies[achievement unlocked: kill 250 enemies][achievement unlocked: perform 150 headshots]*
*player gets the stuff he went for[achievement unlocked: find stuff]*
*player falls from the roof accidentally[achievement unlocked: meet death 100 times]*

OH THE FUN! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJ7zPoCyCA

I don't care about achievements but I'm not bothered by them either.
The thing is, I like narrative-driven games (no, not "interactive novels"). I don't care about competition or how fast my clicking/button mashing or hand-eye coordination is.

Depends. I'm well aware that these sheep aren't real, that doesn't make them less adorable. So, depends on the reward I'd get. And I'd still feel bad. (They are very adorable sheep.)

I just want the ability to turn off achievement notifications in game, I dont care for them but if others want them then fine, but dont force me to stop my game to wait for some splashy binging icon to fade, clammering that Im such a leet gamer for opening a door on my own or some such nonsense. make it optional

The achievements are very successful in gog.If you look at the lists of desired issues on achievements are highly voted.

There have been many users who have asked Gog to add a points system to the achievements.

It seems fine to me, but achievements should always be optional because there are a minority of users who do not want to achieve and they should be respected. Just as there are people who do not like gog galaxy and you can not force them to use it.

In my opinion, social options are very important in the world of video games, not only achievements, profiles, friends, chat ...

Although being honest I hate social networks.

Achievements are fine, and if you want to add perfect points.

What I do not want are games with drm, the obligation to be connected or that gog galaxy is mandatory to play a game.

Achievements: because everyone is special!

It is?

Nope. My first exposure to them was on PC after all.

How I feel about it? Depends on the game. If I'm not enjoying it, I won't care about them or stop much to get an achievement that's out of my way. Now if I'm enjoying it, and the game is all about skill and appeals to me (e.g. Cuphead), that's a different story...especially if I'm close to unlocking them all rather than not even done with a percentage of them.

Do I absolutely need them? I typically blast people who say that achievements are a reason to use Steam. So pretty much no. They're in the end, pop-ups telling you that you did something. Hooray and congratulations. End of the story.

I thought achievements were dumb when I first heard about them, I thought they were dumb when I first played a game with them, and I still think they're dumb.

I'm glad GOG Galaxy lets you disable them.

I wish Steam did.

The worst thing about achievements is little pop-up windows tell you you got one. At least in Steam you can turn the overlay off, but on the PS3/PS4 sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. (They've added and removed that option several times in OS updates.)

It's really annoying especially in games with small, fast-moving enemies that like to attack from the sides.

nice to know that they do, i have it off in galaxy and dont use steam but I play alot of games on my kindle and most of those games have mandatory game circle (?), even if i have it logged off or set to off on kindle settings it just gives me 'anonymous just got blah blah achievement'. lolol

So true!

Ah, my bad, I didn't know about that.
I think UPlay did that to me when I played Far Cry 3. I disabled everything and had it in offline mode, yet got the achievement pop-ups. Meh.

Things like that should always be optional.

I got into achievements on the 360, and I still appreciate them on PC. They're part of my purchasing choices, since well-implemented achievements can give me an incentive to do things I wouldn't normally bother with and get more replayability out of a game. I don't go for quantity though, they have to add challenge or variety to the game. So achievements in a Telltale game are just pointless to me. I can understand if someone doesn't care for them, but to me those little badges are the incentive I need to bother with a Very Hard difficulty run or a no-magic run.