The absolute nerve to want take away one's ownership of a product just because of your precious achievements. And you do realize there are other ways to foster competition such as live in-person gaming tournaments? Wouldn't be for everyone, but for those who care this deeply about competing at high levels, that would be the way to go anyway.

I guess it depends on which achievement person are you.
Those who are in competitive and/or bragging group would really take the hit.
While those on inner-completionist and/or personal-challenge type wouldn't really care. (they could also be part of the above group - yeah)

If speaking solely on GOG's side: games with missing/broken achievements are a much bigger concern than any achievement-cheating mechanism. (there's even a thread for it)
But perhaps they can unlock those that doesn't even exist here. (now, that's something...)

As AB2012 already said, if someone wants to cheat, they'll find other ways to cheat.
Also even without the use of softwares, by going to extremities, you could call in a friend or relative and say: "sit there game master and unlock this for me".
Not even being locked online would block that. It's earned in your account sure, but it's still not your achievement.

This is simply gold.

You probably know this already, but since it somehow fits so well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6byKfvd4Sg

XD

Thanks! lol

OP says "We don't want something like SAM to appear on GOG. Having achievements online is a solution IF GOG can't find another solution"

Everyone else: "We don't care so fuck you"

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Me but it can actually backfire. Because I want to have achievments I play not like it is really fun for me and let so the game lay down.

Could you rewrite that comment? Cause i don't get your point.

He's saying that in order to get some achievements, he has to play in a way that isn't fun for him.

I've been there. A couple of games I really liked, I thought I might as well get the last couple of achievements, "complete" the game.

It sucked all the fun out of the game.

Having achievements earn-able only online would not stop people from cheating to unlock them. SAM has stuck around because Valve doesn't care to punish people for cheating at achievements. As I've seen from third party sites that track Steam achievements and host their own leaderboards, its fairly easy to tell just from publicly available data if someone cheated. Its a common theme with all gaming leaderboards, developers are usually too lazy/don't care to keep their leaderboards clean. I would appreciate if GoG were less tolerant about cheating than Valve though(thats a pretty low bar to clear..).

I honestly prefer seeing the moderation done by third party sites, since its such a niche feature/interest anyway. As long as the community has the tools to make basic checks, it makes more sense for the people invested in the hobby to come up with ways to regulate it. Similar to how speed-runners have to police their own communities and come up with their own solutions to their obscure cheating problems.

Quite true. Saint's Row 3 -> 5 have the habit of having too many weapon kill / upgrade achievements which you end up having to grind to 100% the game. Ok if you've actively still playing the game for other reasons, but sucks if that's the last thing your doing before moving on.