I find cloud saves to be mandatory at this point (and they are missing in pretty much all Nordic games around here) but I couldn't care less about GOG Galaxy achievements

Signed the wishlist, I wanted to ask the same thing since THQ Nordic developers are often in this forum.

THQ Nordic is a wonderful company that seems very attentive to its consumers, so I think it's time for all its games to have their achievements on GOG, especially now that most likely they will add many new ones with the acquisition of Koch Media.

Achievements can only add value to the video game by increasing its replayability and challenge level. If the achievements are a manipulative device then also all the other requests of a video game: kill 50 orcs for complete a quest, complete a track in less than 2 minutes for the gold medal, etc. etc.

In a video game one does what it's fun the most for him, and the achievements are completely avoidable if someone is not interested.

No achievements, please! Enough with all the trendy-kiddies, demanding features that GOG had been better, without (plus their absence used to set GOG apart from wormholes like Steam)! All this pile of nightmares about clients, cloud saves, game-time-tracking, achievements, man damn!

Have some consideration for old timers, who don't want any burdens or extra pain attached to their things! Keep it simple, make it easy, just follow the philosophy of minimalism, to be content!

"Waaah, I don't like this, so no one should have it!"

Geez, stop whining so much. It's OPTIONAL on GOG Galaxy, Don't like it? I completely respect that, just turn it off and voilá.

And GOG Galaxy itself is also optional, so I just can't understand these complaints.
The achievements are something optional in another optional thing, I don't know what can be better than that.

Honestly : fuck achievements . I just want to buy working , proper ( updated ) versions in here .

Game that does not have achievements in Gog (and if you have added on other platforms) is a game that I do not buy.

I will play it without DRM by other means. If the game has achievements and Cloudsave I will buy it.

Anyway, it's stupid all this. The achievements are optional in Gog because if you do not want achievements you do not use Gog galaxy.

THQ should add achievements to their games. They're optional, they don't hurt anybody.

I don't disagree if it is optional... But client is slowly and steadily becoming mandatory, even if by name it is "optional". Giving more options is one thing, but completely shifting the target of audience preferences, is another! More and more games have the client incorporated in their installation files, less and less games get their update (timely, or at all) outside Galaxy in standalone files form and a plethora of other issues, that have alerted the more traditional GOG members, lately...

Let's all hope that "optional" will remain thusly.

i am already addicted to going for them if the game is easy on steam and psn , i am ok with either way on gog cause most people would already own the thq nordic games on steam by now.

Interesting to see how achivements have become a basic part of game, pre 2010 it was not the norm

How is it becoming mandatory? I'll hang up and listen because this is just FUD. The client is only required for one game, which has no offline functionality. I don't approve, but I hardly see how it is becoming remotely mandatory.

I'd probably like achievements if they actually unlocked neat shit in the game itself like neat costumes or characters or whatever than a dickwaving badge on my system account saying "CONGRATS, YOU DID THE THING!" but I'm indifferent for the most part. They've just always felt so lazily/separately implemented.

You are SO right.

This is a nice idea, even just an avatar or a wallpaper of the game you have completed.

Saints Row 3 and 4 have both achievements on Steam. On gog only Saints Row 4 has Achievements. For me, there is no reason why Saints Row 3 does not have achievements on GOG. And there is also no online coop in Saints row 3 in the gog version.

Personal opinion: achievements in games are useless. I've been playing games since the NES era & I always felt that progressing through a game & getting to the end is an achievement in itself. Maybe most games today lack the ability to make the player feel like that & use commercial tricks (a.k.a. achievements) to create the illusion that there's lots of stuff to do? Again, my personal opinion.