Why force acheivements?

== Why Force Achievements? ==

This is a problem with steam. There are ways to get a game removed from your account:

* delete the license
* hide from library
* "permanently remove" (basically same as above, except with a middle-man)
* refund

^ all of these methods do not result in the stats from said game being truly removed from your account. The stats are permanent. Which means achievements are also permanent. What does this mean if you refund a game that you played for 10 minutes and absolutely hated, but got 5% of the achievements in? It means that that 5% will linger, and haunt you after the fact, tanking your average game completion rate.

With that said, you have a choice: let a low% achievement stat in a game that was supposed to be *GONE* from your account continue to affect your overall stats, or set it to 100% so that the effect isn't negative? The lesser of two evils is the latter. If the well is gonna be poisoned regardless, it's better to have a positive effect than a negative one.

Thus, when I refund or otherwise decide that I'm never playing a game again, I force the achievements. Counter-intuitively, this means the point of forcing achievements on said "never again" games--games which I uninstalled and removed from my library with the intent to never play again--is to make is so they *don't* count towards my stats. Or as little as possible anyway.

I do not give a shit about the stats on the individual game (if I did, I'd be playing it instead of removing it); I only care about the overall stats, which whether or not I have 100% affects. And until Valve *fixes* this, what I'm gonna have to do is, for games I could not refund, since they are visible on my account, disclose which games had achievements forced and for what reason.

To put this in perspective, consider the following set of values:

100
100
100

The average (mean) of these values is 100

100
100
100
20

The average of these values is 80. But wait...I refunded that game with 20% achievements

100
100
100
100 (forced)

The average is 100. Exactly what it would be if the game was properly removed.

Q.E.D. This is the only thing I can do to make my stats as mathematically accurate as possible.