Global Achievements

[krazysteve1958]

Anyone know what the deal is here. As I was attempting to score 3M on Genie (again) to attain the Wizard Goal, I became somewhat puzzled over TPA's statistical information. How is it that global achievements in Steam show that 7.8% are Genie Wizards, yet the leaderboard shows only 66 out of 41,820 have scored more than 3M? This works out to .00158%. Where are all the other 3,196 3M+ scores? I threw this query past TPA on Facebook and the goof responded with "Global Achievements?"

 

[Zorgwon]

Anyone know what the deal is here. As I was attempting to score 3M on Genie (again) to attain the Wizard Goal, I became somewhat puzzled over TPA's statistical information. How is it that global achievements in Steam show that 7.8% are Genie Wizards, yet the leaderboard shows only 66 out of 41,820 have scored more than 3M? This works out to .00158%. Where are all the other 3,196 3M+ scores? I threw this query past TPA on Facebook and the goof responded with "Global Achievements?"

Some time ago there were less players on the board with 3M and the % numbers for the wizard goal were close to the high score achievement.

 

[krazysteve1958]

Huh? If there were less players with 3M then % for the Wizard goal would be even smaller.

 

[Zorgwon]

Huh? If there were less players with 3M then % for the Wizard goal would be even smaller.

The numbers were smaller. Like 4 and 5 %

 

[Xanija]

The leaderboard shows scores regardless of platform. The achievement is only for Steam users. Plus, if you don't have a Farsight account, you can get the wizard achievement without ever appearing on the leaderboard.

 

[krazysteve1958]

So the leaderboard consists of all scores from all platforms (ie devices)?

 

[Xanija]

Yes. On PS4 you can even see which platform the score was achieved on. Not on PC or Android unfortunately. I have tables both for PC and Android, and it's always the higher of both scores, which is shown on the leaderboard.

 

[JPelter]

So the leaderboard consists of all scores from all platforms (ie devices)?

I think the only exception is that Xbox360 doesn't show scores anywhere outside their own leaderboards.

 

[krazysteve1958]

So if I score over 3M (which I finally have), I'm one of only 68 who have ever accomplished this? So back to the original question, why is the "global achievement" % so high shown in Steam? It's just plain wrong, who knows, they're idiots, wizard goals were changed?

 

[Zorgwon]

S It's just plain wrong, who knows,

That's my guess. Just complete nonsense.

They should explain what 100% means. There is the "High Score" achievement with fairly low numbers (like 10% for MM).

 

[JPelter]

There is a way to gain steam achievements for any game you own regardless of if you actually achieved it. It's kind of generally frowned upon and Valve could technically ban your steam account for it, so I wouldn't bother looking into it. I don't see any point to it regardless. That's the most likely reason why the global achievement stats in steam seem higher than they should.

edit: Actually yeah the thing where the leaderboards aggregate every other platform as well but steam achieves are only from steam platform is probably an even larger part of it.