Yup those are some achievements I avoid no matter what. The ones you have to grind for even after completing the game.

At the very least, game menus should include the option to disable achievements.

Some achievements seems to be in some games that you have to play game kinda wrong way. I don't really care about achievements and I usually cough a bit when I hear console players talking about platinuming games. I guess that means you get every achievement or something.

Yes, ever since Activision started handing out badges for "achievements" in the video games, quality has gone down the drain.
(This is sarcasm btw).

If you mean external achievements tacked on the game (like Steam achievements, or the Galaxy achievements I suppose), then no, I don't recall ever caring for them. While I play some Steam game (lately TeamFortress 2), sometimes some achievement might suddenly activate accidentally. Ok, meh. So at best they are some kind of list of odd(?) things than have accidentally happened while I've played. Killed an enemy soldier mid-air? Yay, I guess.

If you mean in-game achievements that give some extra goodies in the game itself, then yes, I usually try to complete them. Like finding all the secrets in a FPS game, solving all the subquests in a RPG, finding all those darn packages in GTA 3, etc. These are the kind of "achievements" that I like. And the biggest achievement of them all: finishing the game and seeing the end credits.

Funny thing about the TeamFortress 2 achievements: I once received the "Party Crasher" achievement, which I apparently got because my sentry gun killed several enemies who were not playing, but just dancing inside the level.

My reward? Many other players (those who wanted to dance and pretend it is Facebook, but not play) got angry at me, and kicked (voted) me out of the server. LOL! Why were they so much against me winning an achievement? :)

No because I pay little to no attention to them. If I see something like that in a game pop up I go "oh, well, hmmm, interesting, I wonder why they did that?" ONWARD with actually playing the game!

I always ignored them and so far it worked pretty well. However I may have just been lucky because they were not very intrusive and annoying.

Achievements that unlock more gameplay material are okay, say, Binding of Isaac style. Others have no reason to be in the game, i.e. I ignore them and even make a conscious effort to not buy those games if achievements are listed as one of the game features.

Yeah I agree about having milestones in games that unlock more for a game. Those are good achievements since they are basically there because those milestones unlock just from playing the game anyway.

Not really. It sure changed when and how I replay games, but not really ruin. I no longer care for achievements and trophies like I used to, but if I can get a nice one for replaying a game in a different way that will motivate me slightly to do it. It's like getting a bit of extra bang for your buck. Still, whether achievements go away or not, I don't really care. I will play games regardless of their existence.

I'm really into hunting achievements. I can't explain why but I like the feeling when I got 100% of them in a game. I wouldn't say that they ruined the way I play games but they changed the way I play them.
I like if they guide you to special locations or to a special ending.
I still play games without achievements and I prefer a game with no achievements over a game with stupid ones.
Mario Kart on SNES: I never beat the last Grand Prix on 150cc.

The only achievement I'm after is to beat the game in the hardest difficulty.. If I think about it though, with the way I play games (usually they take me two times than normal to finish them because of the exploring/ exploiting/ trying many different things) someone could say I clear all/ any achievements..

Brought Heroes of M&M Shades of Darkness and didn't know about Uplay.
Okay so I play and get all the achievements and then one day I say stuff
this I don't need this Uplay shit.
Decide to play it offline and guess what no achievements anymore.
Get extremely pissed off which is not in my nature:-),Tell Uplay to
stick it and haven't been back since and never will.

For a while games felt as a job,in contrast to something i should be enjoying.a long time passed since i dont care about achievement anymore

Rainbow road. It easy. Just need a.ton of alchohol, various inhalation methods and way too much time