Huh! Interesting. :huh: At least with Johan at the helm it'll be in good hands. Maybe we'll finally see Vicky 3, even?

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Sounds like some pretty exciting additions from the announcement, I'm looking to dive back in (heh) when it comes out. :)

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Quoting: GuestBasically, think about achievements as some kind of "offline" competition.

Yeah, that wouldn't be a healthy attitude for me personally. I can't control what other people do, so I'm not going to let my happiness be contingent on their actions. :)

These kinds of tools have been around for over a decade now, so I can either sit around and worry about the integrity of Steam's achievement system, or realize that the integrity was an illusion all along (though a pretty passable approximation) and get on with my life (and earning more achievements for myself ^_^).

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From my point of view, I got the achievement—it's not my fault the game's bugged and doesn't recognize it. And while in a perfect world I would absolutely report these to developers, realistically some of these are never getting fixed. (Civ V, for instance, will never have its Linux port updated, and incidentally has a few such bugged achievements.) I only use it in cases where I absolutely, positively, and unambiguously met the requirements for getting an achievement, where it's 100% certain that it must be bugged (where people have sometimes even checked the code and seen that it's bugged). It definitely doesn't feel as good as seeing it pop up in-game, but at least I can finally rest easy knowing that I've got an accurate achievement completion percentage.

On another, perhaps more positive note, the new ability to see stats is going to be super handy for those achievements which need them but are bugged and don't show them. Now I can finally see exactly how many more tiles of forest I need to cut down in Civ V for that Paul Bunyan achievement. (Yes, I know there's already a way to do that for Civ V, that's just an example. I know there are other games out there which don't show stats properly.)

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Ah, time to update! I first heard about SAM from the previous post on it here some months ago and checked it out. I've used it to unlock a few achievements which I've definitely fulfilled but were bugged and didn't fire, such as the achievement for playing a game on an archipelago map in Civilization V, which is broken. It's really nice to be able to unlock those few achievements which have been taunting with their unattainability.

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Quoting: musojon74But it does affect sales. Then we vocally shout about this. Then we shout at people for bad poets.

I know this is a typo, but we should totally shout about bad poets more. :D

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Quoting: haikuMaybe this one [External Link], he's more agressive :P

Aggressive? Huh. :huh: The white bit in its beak makes it look like it's cringing to me. Though I'd probably guess this one was a penguin. :)

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Quite a fun game, especially with all the custom options. A friend and I like to play almost normally except with the ability to jump turned on; it turns all the courses into new and exciting experiences where we try to one-up each other by pulling off complicated jumps to save some strokes (and usually fail and take more strokes, but it's all fun!).

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Quoting: EikeSounds like a little thing done well

That sounds like an excellent description. :)

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Quoting: haikuFinally a tux badge that look modern :wink:

Wow. That looks gorgeous.

Funny, to me it looks bland and kind of depressed. Guess my heart's really never been in "modern".

Gotta admit, if I didn't know it was supposed to be a penguin I would've guessed some type of songbird, or maybe a duck. :S:

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