What are your feelings towards achievements?

I think they can be useful to extend the lifetime of a game. If I fall in love with a game and want to play more of it I will be more than happy to use achievements I am missing to justify playing more of it. So for most games I don't really care about achievements at all, but for my favourite game I will put in the effort to 100% the game. And I definitely also take pride in them in that case too. I also enjoy looking through the global achievement statistics on Steam - seeing that an achievement you have is obtained only by 0.2% of players feels good!

The factor that's most important to how much attention I give Achievements is basically how much I care about the game. If it's a game I'm not enjoying, I don't even pay attention to the Achievements. If it's one I like, I'll usually enjoy going over which ones I earned in my playthrough and how I compare to global and friend stats. If it's a game I'm absolutely loving and feel compelled to experience every possible aspect of it, then I'll use Achievements as a measure of how much of the game I have yet to experience.

But then there's the second most important factor of what kind of Achievements the game has. Some games have nonsense joke ones, other ones have uninspired "beat x level" ones or "kill x enemies with y weapons" ones, and other games have legitimate challenges and side content based one that are easily missed if you don't poke around a game enough. The middle kind basically means I won't pay attention to the Achievements, even if I do like the game. The first and third, if done well, might actually mean I pay attention to them even if I'm not loving a game much because it might be an opportunity to find something I might end up appreciating or liking the game more over. But usually I'll gauge that based on Achievements I've already got along the way and what those ones have meant to me.

I like them to see how much of the game I've experienced and try to 100% game I like. I absolutely hate achievements which require a multiplayer component because they might be impossible to get if no one plays the multiplayer anymore and they're generally just pointless grinding with no reward.

I don't really care about them, really. I mean, if I suddenly get one I'm like "oh, nice", but I don't go out of my way to obtain them as a goal or anything.

Achievements in team games have the potential to fracture a team's efforts. Before achievements, the team mostly had one goal - beat the other team. After achievements, who knows what crazy thing your teammates are trying to achieve? Very annoying when ad-hoc coordination is what I enjoy so much about team games.

Same complaint applies in a smaller fashion to scoreboards. No single number can encompass what makes a good teammate. But we're all subtly influenced by the numbers etc and tend to alter our play to fit what the algorithm says is 'good'.

grumble Back in my day, the only achievement was finishing the game and it was good enough for us. grumble

I have a sensible chuckle when one pops up on the screen and it's a joke/play on words, but otherwise I ignore achievements entirely.

I like achievements that encourage a different play style or approach: win X scenario without killing any enemies.

I dislike achievements that celebrate grinding or arbitrary metrics or ask me to do something nearly impossible that it’d require grinding for practice: do X thing 10,000 times, play 100 hours without dying once, etc.

I find most achievements to be a bore. Collect all of X, beat chapter Y - it feels very formulaic. Some of the worst I've seen are in Tabletop Simulator, with one even requiring you "play the game" for over 1,000 hours.

There's a handful of achievements that are genuinely challenging and deserve the title achievement. I think those are great opportunities to set goals and show off a little. I'd like to see more of it.

For example, Dark Souls 2 has two rare in-game rings that are awarded for beating the game without dying, and beating the game without sitting at a bonfire. Now to me those would be excellent achievements.

I'm pretty neutral about them. On the occasions that I do get an achievement that isn't the most basic of basics (ie you finished chapter 1 etc.) I'm just like huh, neat. Sometimes they can be funny. I like when they have cool art associated with them! But overall, I am Very Really Bad at video games so they hold little to no meaning for me. I know my ass won't ever be able to 100% a game lol.

Don't generally bother for them unless there's a score behind them.

And even then, back when I was a huge Xbox gamer and cared a lot more about my gamerscore, there were definitely games which took the piss in terms of freely awarding you points. Some games made every achievement incredibly hard to get while others, like Fight Night Round 3 for example made the 1000 Gamerscore threshold incredibly easy to get just by playing the career mode to a quick completion.

I don't really pay attention to achievements.
I think good achievements are those that encourage to do something you'd never do in the normal course of playing the game.
They don't really effect how I play games, and I never feel like I have to get them.

I only notice achievements in games when I have apparently earned one and it pops up. I don't like them as they take me out of the game when they are revealed.

People should strive for real achievements. That is, in real life. Those are meaningful. Do something new and interesting and pat yourself on the back!

Achievements in general I'm pretty neutral about. Don't really care deeply about them, but I'll receive a little jolt of positivity when I see I've performed a more rare feat that most players haven't. However, I will say that I feel quite strogly about a certain kind of in-game achievement:

In Battlefield V, they have in-game achievements (i.e. not part of the achievement system of Steam or Playstation or XBox) which require you to get N kills with a certain weapon, or under certain conditions like when in a certain area of the map. The major problem with BFV's achievements is that they don't contribute much towards actually winning the round. In fact, in most cases, trying to achieve them would actually cause you to detract from winning the round. You're actually hurting your team by working at them. This is horrible. It's much the same as the ages-old complaint about camping snipers. They're not helping (PTFO). As such, your team is handicapped because fewer players on your side are doing their jobs and contributing to the win.

There were times in the past where I'd literally hold back from killing an enemy because the achievement conditions weren't met. e.g. I need him to walk into the objective area first before I shoot . And, of course, this is just stupid. I stopped chasing most achievements because of this.

I completely ignore them. Disabled the notifications on Xbox.

I like achievements if I can see how many other people have / don't have them.

At the moment I've got over 80% of the Minecraft (Windows 10) achievements. I'm not sure I understand how they're saying how many people have got the achievement. "Taking Inventory" (10g for opening your inventory) is only completed by 35.90% of players. Currently my rarest achievement is "Sleep with the fishes" (0.24%).

Microsoft have tied some unlockable skin items to some of the achievements, and it's pretty easy to cheat achievements (create a creative world that sets all the stuff up, then use software to edit the world to set it to a survival world) so it's a bit surprising that people don't appear to be mass cheating to get the skin items.

But in general I don't care about achievements.