Why do people do this? I genuinely don't understand the mindset behind boosting your play time and unlocking all of a games achievements manually.

    Posted by Hadraex

    16 Comments

    1. They use tools to unlock all achievements and change hours etc etc etc.

      Im assuming they think it’s cool or some flex. IDK

    2. Director_Bison on

      Some people just do things because they can, some run up their game times to collect trading cards.

      People can do what they want, only reason to call them out is if they try and brag about it, then you’re free to call them an obvious cheater.

    3. Guys e-penis has existed for a very, very long time. This is just another “Flex” of it.

    4. i mean for me i actually manually farm the hours i just have wallpaper engine boot up on start when i start my laptop and for cheating in advancements this oc is just me but i get impossible ones cause im never actually going to meet gary in gmod am i going to do the play the year of gmod for the advancement i mean maybe but that’s something i can actually do so

    5. Scammers will often do it to make it look like they’re an avid player of CS (or any game with trading) so potential victims are more willing to trust them.

    6. Would the hours be more related to farming Steam cards? Can’t say anything for the achievements. They’re probably doing it to farm Steam Awards for their profile when some 12yo looks at it and gives them an award for having a high Perfect Game count.

    7. I only have 2 guesses:

      Achievement hunting (some can be really hard to get I find)

      Farming for trading cards

    8. Card farmer, you’ll notice that most of the games they have lots of hours in don’t have MTX, which allows you to reset how many cards you can earn in relation to $ spent. Some use tools to artificially inflate their hours, like SAM (Steam Achievement Manager).

    9. So many braindead comments in this thread. It isn’t as deep as you think it is. Unlocking achievements and idling hours isn’t a flex and people do not do it to flex.