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[Rilder]

I usually make a point of playing any game I buy, after all, I put valuable money down for it I better fucking get some use out of it.

There has been some exceptions like various Indie Bundle games since 90% of the humble bundles have only one or two games I'm actually interested in and even those usually have non-steam versions that I almost always prefer to play.

[fenrif]

I feel that some of the "pointless achievements" comes from the padding mindset instilled by XBOX 360's giant achievement lists for every game. You'd have something downloadable like a match 3 game and 10 achievements for things you're going to do in 10 minutes of playing. It's almost like X360 games were required to include achievements.

I may be talking out my ass here, but that's where I first saw this phenomenon.

Xbox 360 definatly has required achivements. Retail games have to have 1000 points worth, downloadable arcade games is somewhere near 200, though I've not played one of those in a long time. I dunno how they decide DLC achivements.

Though I don't think there's anything stopping a dev from putting 1 1000 point achivement in their game, or 1000 1 point achivements.

It was kind of interesting with the really early 360 games seeing how devs did their achivements, before it kind of became standardised like it is today. I remember that Japanese devs took aaaaages to get the hang of achivements.

[EuchreJack]

In the case of Warband and many other games with multiplayer, you don't have to play singleplayer. Some people may get the game just for mods or for the multiplayer (I don't think achievements are tracked in mods?).

Actually, some achievements in Warband and the Mount & Blade series are unlocked when playing mods.  In fact, playing a mod is an achievement if I recall.  However, some achievements are trigged by stuff specific to the native game, and thus don't trigger.

And I'd totally blame bundles for the fact that many people aren't playing the games they bought, mainly because they bought games A & C, but the bundle threw in game B for a lower price than A & C individually, so they got game B that they will never play.

[Zangi]

.... or they amass a gigantic backlog of new games... and/or they go back to old games and put more time into em...