Anything can be an achievement for somebody, and your "enjoyment" might be a boring waste of time to someone else.
Didn't your daddy tell you that you're a lazy loser because real work is sweating your ass off in the mines? Maybe not, but now you sound like him anyway.
My point: semantics

It is fine for me.
Many virtual airlines work like this.
You play the flight simulation and upload your data.
After verification you earn your score on the forum.

Details, baby, details. ((;--))

It's a dick measuring contest, and GOG doesn't even come with a ruler to measure the dicks with, given how half-athed the implementation of the client is.

Even back when Nintendo Power was a publication, you'd turn to the back pages and see popular games with 999,999,999 scores (remove or add 9s as needed) which sort of makes one realize just how pointless those are.

Tales of Maj'Eyal swings back into egregious by having achievements locked to your difficulty settings and you know, having to turn on the limited life settings. (In a game where, no thanks to monsters getting out of zone abilities, can and will kill you without warning.)

Not to mention that several features and abilities are locked to strictly "bastard" playstyles, such as rerolling items.

I don't think the problem w/ Achievements is them existing; it's how they are utilized by services and/or companies: often as a DRM of sorts.

The problem is it's often used as a sort of DRM, in a sense - as in you'd need to be online to connect to their servers to basically get credit for doing these Achievements, such as how EGS and Steam approach this stuff. To me, that's DRM - as you cannot earn this cool stuff or get credit for Achievements b/c you're offline...which is garbage. It should NEVER come to that, IMHO - especially in single-player games.

I don't need to be online to Achieve stuff - this stuff should ALSO be able to be achieved offline, even if I never share this stuff w/ the world.

I do NOT think this Achievements as "soft DRM" crap is the ideal way to do Achievements - especially for single-player offline type of games.

As far as I'm concerned, the idea of Achievements in general is a good idea to gives gamers some challenges and/more goals to accomplish, to get replay value out of their games. If this was all tied to players allowed to offline profiles for Achievement-earning and built right into a game with complete offline support, nobody would probably care about being for or against Achievements.

Again, I'll point at Divinity 2 DC/DKS/DC as my best example - as Achievements on PC weren't even a thing yet and Steam wasn't really doing much w/ these (even though consoles already were) - so Larian, who is not fond of DRM normally, BTW - built it right into the game itself as an offline thing and something to also do & earn in this game that was a total offline single player game. Companies should go back to them methodology, IMHO - there's no reason they can't build this as an extra option to access and see this stuff from an Inventory, Game Menu, or any offline feature that works within the game.

And of course, if a player is online - anything earned offline for these Achievements should be up to the user to allow for it to upload to services on EGS, Steam, GOG Galaxy, if the game ALSO supports those systems - only if the players selects an option to WANT Achievements shared; should be up to the player.

I'm all about options.


THIS. We need more of THIS.
Especially if these straight-up work in-game while offline AND in an offline mode.
I agree w/ this, to an extent.

First and foremost, these Achievements should be built to work in-game while offline. They should be built into the game from scratch, for offline play and when not tied to a service.

Then, I'm cool w/ them adding EXTRA optional and additional support for GOG & Steam Achievements.