The Epic Games Store has always attempted to be transparent about its development roadmap, but an update to their Trello board has removed any hints as to when certain features will be improved. The company still mentions the creation of an achievement system in the long list, but it has been quietly shuffled off into the vague and timeless "Future Development" section of the board.Unlike Nintendo, who have never committed to any sort of achievement or trophy equivalent for the Switch, Epic Games have included the development of such a system for their platform since their plans were made public. However it has been moved away from being a priority. That makes sense given the other developments on the plate that are more pressing; certainly the fact that Ubisoft games require massive reinstalls is a big problem, while mod support and store overhauls will have a larger impact.There's probably another issue that Epic want to address while designing an achievement system, and that's improving on the service provided by their competitors at Steam. Epic have stirred controversy by nabbing a few exclusivity deals in the past few months, but they have also offered developers a significantly better deal in terms of revenue share compared to Steam's 30% cut.It's likely that Epic want to apply a similar approach — being a better version of Steam — when it comes to achievements. Frankly, that's not too hard. Steam is pretty notorious for not intervening in a lot of store-related issues and achievements are certainly among them. With no curation Steam's achievement library is bloated beyond merit, with games sometimes carrying thousands of achievements awarded for menial tasks. It's also perfectly possible to find loopholes in games' restrictions; for example, there are plenty of games that are supposed to restrict achievement unlocks if the player applies mods, but there's often a mod to break that restriction too.Whenever Epic get around to designing their achievement system, we can only hope they will reach out to achievement hunting communities like ours to learn all about the best and worst parts of the meta-game – and why Xbox's gamerscore structure continues to be so beloved.