A Good Guy Appeal (Complete)

[A Good Guy]

Hi, a really long time ago, I used software on certain games to unlock all of the achievements - chalk it up to childhood idiocy.

Discord: A Good Guy#5354
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/theutmostswagger5543/
The games in question are:

- Shadow Warrior
- The Stanley Parable
- Guardians of Middle-earth
- Portal
- Alien Rage - Unlimited
- F1 2013
- Papers, Please
- Legends of Aethereus
- Knock-knock
- Glare
- How to Survive
- Rocksmith 2014 Edition - Remastered
- Soundodger+
- Football Manager 2014

Since these were done a while ago, and minimal work was put into them, you can simply invalidate all of those games. I appreciate you guys taking the time to give me a second chance at this!

[Xeinok]

Thanks for appealing - we will review shortly.

Can you tell me how those games above were cheated?

[A Good Guy]

I believe it was some achievement unlocking software.

It was a while ago, but I think it was Steam Achievement Manager (SAM).

Once again, that was a long time ago, and my play style has shifted to being a completionist, so I would never cheat achievements nowadays.

Thanks again for looking into this, and I apologize for taking so long with the response - the beginning of the semester is always hectic/stressful

[Xeinok]

Okay, unfortunately any game where you used SAM cannot simply be "invalidated" - SAM usage is kind of the "ultimate cheat" for Steam hunting so you will need to fully relock those games as described in the FAQ: https://forum.100pals.co/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6

Please let me know if any other games were cheated or had achievements unlocked/relocked by a tool.

[A Good Guy]

The games listed above are the only ones that were cheated or tampered with in any way. I went through my entire Steam library when I created my appeal on AStats just to double check.

And I'll get on relocking the games.

Once again, thank you for your assistance with this process.

[Xeinok]

Okay thanks, please relock the games, then open them up to make sure they don't re-pop cheated achievements, and then update the games manually on achievement trackers you use and report back here once done.

[A Good Guy]

Alright, I went through the games, and relocked a majority of them. Some of the achievements I kept due to them not being cheated, and I removed any that had duplicated unlock times.

We should be good.

[Xeinok]

Sorry but games that used SAM need to be fully relocked. SAM-usage is the ultimate taboo for achievement hunting really, so the punishment is rather harsh. Be aware that AStats only allows one single appeal for SAMing, and then perma-bans for life.

[A Good Guy]

Alright, it's kinda late now, but I'll get on that when I get home from classes tomorrow. Not that great that I have to remove legitimate progress, but I guess I gotta learn my lesson somehow.. Even if there were only very few legit achievements.

[A Good Guy]

It's done.