Notice that I did all of these things, and even destroyed all 8 of the Rift fields. And yet I Blizzard somehow thinks I didn't do any of these things, despite the stats directly to the right stating the contrary.
I would almost be ok with this if it was an isolated thing, but I did a run through of the last 5-6 missions today, and I figured that although things weren't showing up they'd pop up later. Right?
Wrong. Apparently Battlenet has to be "on" for achievements to actually work. So despite me having a solid internet connection the entire time I was playing, because Blizzard can't maintain a decent server (I only found out it was acting up for everyone after finishing the campaign and browsing the forums, discovering hundreds of angry threads) I not only have not completed the campaign, but I haven't even gotten basic achievements for things like "finish the mission." But if you look at any of the logs, it shows me as having finished the campaign, except achievements wise. So my profile states I have not finished the campaign, but if I load the campaign I go straight to the mission select screen. Even something like "buy all the mercenaries," which I've done, apparently "hasn't happened."
This is incredibly incredibly dumb design, and I don't know what the hell Blizzard was thinking. Requiring internet to log in I can /almost/ understand, but making achievements only active when Battlenet is running? So so stupid. At least Xbox Live allows you to earn achievements while COMPLETELY offline, and then updates it next time you connect.
tl;dr, I am so frustrated.
-HTMC
Considering how spotty my internet connection is, I feel ya. I've missed a number of achievements this way.
ReplyDeleteIt's very odd. I suspect it's a technical thing, but why wouldn't they design to cope with a problem as obvious as this one? In any case, it's a huge pain in the butt.
Oh yeah, I got that problem too. Thankfully I'm not much of a completionist, but it's still annoying.
ReplyDeleteI think the thing that bugs me is that they allow you to play offline; it doesn't kick you or anything. But if you're offline your options are limited to: campaign or AI stomp. Both of those have achievements attached, yet both suddenly become moot if you're offline. Why even allow you to play offline then?
ReplyDeleteThis goes into another rant about how people seem (perhaps willfully?) ignorant that not everyone has a perfect internet connection all the time, not to mention when the company itself is supplying the problem (Thanks Blizzard).