Where are my achievements?

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#1 Posted by Yehaw4Jihad (13 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Just logged in first time this week and I get that the site has had a makeover, but where are all my multi platform achievements/trophies?

WHAT IS HAPPENING!

#2 Posted by Hailinel (18122 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

This has been known for a while now, but achievements and trophies are no longer being actively tracked due to API headaches that caused the feature to constantly break. It might come back, but not for the foreseeable future.

#3 Posted by Bass (684 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Achievement support on the site has been (temporarily?) discontinued. The guys (Jeff and Dave) have talked about it in the past at length. The basic reasoning is that the API for achievements from those places is always changing and its a huge pain to recollect that information if it changes in any significant way. This link shows Dave saying that they aren't planning on working on it any time soon, but maybe in a couple months they will revisit it.

Here's a response from jeff's tumblr that talks briefly about why they aren't doing achievements at the mome

"Everyone wants achievements, too, but that’s a much stickier situation. We’ll probably wait until the new consoles launch and see if anything related to achievements/trophies change and then consider our options. Building site scrapers and all that other junk only to have them break whenever anyone makes a change (or blocks your IP because you’re scraping their achievement/trophy data) was a colossal pain. I feel bad for anyone trying to build an entire business around that data."

I'm pretty bummed about it, too. But I understand their reasoning.

#4 Edited by NoelVeiga (860 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

@hailinel: Which... sucks.

I know it's boring to hear it over and over again, but hey, it's so easy to go "we've made the call so we don't want to hear about it ever again" and then never get around to it. So yeah, with respect, a nudge every now and then is in order :)

#5 Posted by Pr1mus (2441 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Gone until Sony and Microsoft make this stuff easily available in some official fashion that doesn't break every other day.

#6 Posted by Yehaw4Jihad (13 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Ok wow thanks for all the answers and links.

Now does anyone know if there is a similar site that does track it all?

Otherwise I think I am done here, as I get my gaming news from a different site.Ta

Thanks in advance.

#7 Edited by Fredchuckdave (1715 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

They don't exist. To quote Newman: "They're meaningless, muahahahaha." Though from my end I absolutely never use the wiki function of this site so it's down to forums and videos.

#8 Posted by TyCobb (1029 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Now does anyone know if there is a similar site that does track it all?

Otherwise I think I am done here, as I get my gaming news from a different site.Ta

Really? Really... Really? Achievements mean that much to you that you'll leave the entire site because you can't track a stupid pointless stat? Adios!

I guess I am just old, but I never understood the appeal of achievements and why people get all creamy over them. I think they are dumb and wish they would just stop.

#9 Posted by ImmortalSaiyan (4186 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

I always enjoyed that feature. Was one of the neat things that kept GiantBomb unique. I hope it comes back.

#10 Posted by jimmyfenix (650 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Pathetic

#11 Posted by DaMisterChief (657 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago
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