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Console Commands and Mods Shouldn’t Disable Achievements — Consoles Are Holding Players Back for No Good Reason (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago by Coleman@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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We’ve all run into the same wall: a quest breaks, an NPC won’t move, a trigger doesn’t fire, or a bug locks you out of progress. On PC, you fix it in seconds with a console command or a small mod. On consoles, you’re stuck. Reload, restart, pray.

But here’s the thing nobody talks about: Consoles could support console commands and mods without disabling achievements.
There’s nothing magical about PCs that makes this possible. The engines are the same. The tools exist. The hardware can handle it. The only thing stopping it is platform policy.

Right now, consoles treat user tools like forbidden magic. Mods disable achievements. Console commands are locked away. Players are forced to choose between fixing a bug or keeping their progress “legitimate,” even in single‑player games.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

There are obvious solutions:

Allow console commands that don’t affect progression

Allow curated/sandboxed mods without disabling achievements

Flag saves as “modified” without punishing the player

Provide an opt‑in “unsupported mode” for full tools

Let players fix bugs in their own games

PC players have had this balance for decades. Consoles could too — if platform holders stopped treating user control as a threat instead of a feature.

This isn’t about cheating. It’s about player agency, game preservation, and not losing hours of progress because a quest marker decided to take a vacation.

If consoles can run the games, they can run the tools that keep those games playable. It’s time to stop pretending these limitations are technical. They’re not.

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Heaven forbid someone illegitimately obtains imaginary game points in a single player offline game that they bought.

[–] Red_October@piefed.world -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You know that by trivializing the value of achievements in the first place you also trivialize the importance of not being able to get them, right?

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I can’t parse your second clause so no idea what point you’re making.

Your sense of achievement in your private endeavours is your own. Who cares if someone else plays their game the way they want to? I don’t use cheats in any of my games and I like to try to get achievements. But I don’t look at other people’s achievements or care if they got them legitimately. Why should anyone care?

[–] Red_October@piefed.world -4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Your weak reading comprehension is your problem, but let me help you anyway.

If achievements don't matter, then your inability to unlock them also doesn't matter. You're complaining about not being given Nothing.

Your sense of achievement in your private endeavours [SIC] is your own.

Perfect, then you won't care about being locked out of earning those silly little internet points.

Achievements do not serve some great purpose, but what little purpose they do serve requires that earning them is done on equal footing. If the "100% Completion on Hardest Difficulty" achievement can just be earned by playing through the game with god mode on, or even just toggling a status from zero to one with console commands, then they go from serving very little purpose to serving none at all.

So either achievements are completely pointless, and you're complaining about not getting a pointless thing, or achievements have some value and you want them to have no value at all.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Why did you [sic] their completely correct spelling and usage of a word?

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Your weak reading comprehension is your problem

People in glass houses shouldn't

endeavours [SIC]

imply that British English spelling is some kind of aberration that needs an editor's note.

It's rich to start your critique like this because you have completely missed the point that I'm making.

Enjoy being an arsehole [SIC] on the internet.

[–] Red_October@piefed.world -3 points 3 weeks ago

I like how you can't actually refute any of what I said, and all you can call out is regional differences in spelling. You're right though, I didn't know that was the British spelling. Using that as the focal point of your rebuttal, though, is about as meaningful as achievements that can be unlocked with a console command.