Welcome to the Era of Achievements
Today we’re excited to launch a brand new feature on Dotabuff: Achievements. Achievements provide a fun and challenging way to measure your dedication and hero diversity in Dota, and are available today for every Dota 2 player.
Most players have heard of the A-Z Hero Challenge, a fun in-game achievement that dares you to play and win a game on every hero in Dota. Learning every hero is valuable for game knowledge and sets a clear goal to work towards, all without forcing you to make in-game decisions that may negatively effect your team. This is the spirit in which we’ve built Achievements: fun, challenging, but above all not harmful or toxic (well, except for this one).
Achievements as Statistics
When we first launched Dotabuff, one of our most requested features was an easy way to see which heroes you have not yet won a match on. Dotabuff Achievements has an extensive Hero Mastery group where you can easily identify new challenges, set personal goals and achieve them.
Dotabuff couldn’t make an Achievement system without additional statistics, right? It’s sort of our thing here. When viewing an achievement, keep an eye out for the little globe icon with a number indicating the percentage of players who have completed that achievement. So, what are your most rare achievements?
Completing achievements give you Arbitrary Points (AP), a fun stat that you can use to compare your achievements in Dota to other players. Of course, there’s an achievements leaderboard. Dotabuff Plus subscribers (you’re awesome) get a few nice perks too: you can see the world rank and percentile for yourself and others, along with a chart showing how your AP has grown over time.
We've also sneaked in some fun achievements under a category called Arbitrary Awards. These include achievements like playing Dota 2 during the alpha, or playing Wisp before it was renamed to Io. Arbitrary Awards don't award AP because new players can't achieve them anymore.
A fun fact for technical folks: Dotabuff isn't just one big website but a large fleet of smaller components (microservices) that perform dedicated tasks, like accurately storing your player statistics or parsing a replay. Whenever we break ground on a new project, we're faced with the task of giving it a codename. Our Esports stats service is named Bruno, hero rankings are provided by Zeus, etc. It didn't take us long to find the perfect name for the achievements service: Lifestealer!
A Community Effort
The initial launch of Achievements focuses on using simple statistics accessible to all players (API stats). Everything is retroactive - if you have a friend who hasn’t had the desire to enable their statistics, maybe Achievements will help them see the light! We hope that those of you who enjoyed the battle pass quests will also enjoy achievements, but with less pressure to do something specific in one game or not make any progress.
In the future we plan to add achievements based on TrueSight replay analysis - things like getting a full 5 second stun on Mirana or getting a perfect 
Black Hole on the entire enemy team. It’s important for us to do this in a way that gives Plus subscribers more fun and challenging achievements without negatively effecting others. If you'll pardon the sales pitch, Subscribing to Plus today will ensure that we have TrueSight analysis for all of your matches in the future. We don't plan on restricting achievements based on Plus status, but obviously long time subscribers will have a more complete history of Truesight data.
We’d love to hear your feedback on Achievements - please hit us up on Twitter and share your ideas, concerns, and suggestions. Whether you love achievements or hate them, it’s important that we hear your thoughts!
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Hope that arbitrary points can be used to get a subscription on Dotabuff Plus. LOL I wish.
this is stupid because there are way too many achievements to give any weight to them
Is there any pop-up message when you have got new achievement unlocked?
no reward for 1000 of games on one hero boo
Отлично, мне как и многим игрокам эта задумка понравилась! Теперь играть в доту будет веселее. Разооообразиие!
rarest achievements:
win a game as chen
kek
Very good, will be fun. Ty.
No Maelk award?
not very useful...
Great stuff, great stuff.
Very cool! I like them & look forward to achieve more/when the time is right as a relatively new player.
Absolutely amazing! Motivates me to play more outside my comfort zones, which are sadly pretty narrow at the moment.
It's to force people to learn how to play the heroes correctly! lol "DO THIS ITEM YOUR STUPID PRICK, OTHERWISE YOU WON'T GET YOUR REWARD" Chuck LOL
"DON'T U F#*($#() GET THIS STUPID ITEM TO THIS HERO, OR YOU WON'T GET REWARDED". Force them to learn one way or the other. Congrats Buffy!
I don't even play Dota anymore and I am really enjoying looking through all of the achievements that I got back when I played. Keep up the great work dotabuff crew!
Valve add this please
waddup fam?
ачивочки подьехали
nice job
4Head
хуита какаита
How about this achievment: "Play a support hero AND buy more then two wards". That will raise the bar!
who'd do so much work for a gadget no one will care about ? rly :)
should've made that chen achievement "Honk Honk"
Good job guys . I liked it.
road to #1 mein negger
And I want buy thing with this ponts)
its cool, but useless :/
nice haahahahahhahahhahah
Valve needs to add this!
This will be much better if you realize to spend ours arbitrary points for something.
It could be a new era of dotabuff advance
how long does it take for the achievements to appear in my profile after I finish a match?
ashole
Again another feature in Dota 2 that does nothing and has no real meaning or impact. Absolutely amazing.
6,025
ARBITRARY POINTS
574
COMPLETED
Nice, its my first time knowing i got arbitrary points and its 4k+. Didnt know i got that much achievement lol
what a reward ?
can i reset all number?
So i was back to just check for articles and i see you guys are catching up to dotamax but you guys are quite late. i mean at this point those guys even have a betting system with their own mobile app in place. You guys need something better to literally start making people appreciate you. I mean the only advantage you have right now is the articles which compress a lot of info. You guys need a mobile app/streams/vods/coolfeatures(like the one in the maxplus+ app)/Betting/Trade. Keep up people lest the competition overtake you. But the achievements is nice.
please add some item rewards
what is Era of Achievements and how it work? sir
Volvo should add this into game
interesting xD
Good !!!
:3 definitivamente los puntos arbitrarios le dan ese toque que le hacia falta a Dota 2
Give us more new achievements !!!!
Can you delete Arc Warden achievment about rapier, it got nerfed long time ago