My personal concern is that this has gone into effect before such workaround could be mitigated against, leaving players with “ghost badges” in their inventory which they cannot find on the game-page; even with extensions. Removing a workaround should be avoided to the best of the platform’s ability and ideally a feature for viewing earned-badges that are disabled (on the game-page) should have come before or along with this update. This leads developers with a choice of either allowing players to view older badges, cluttering their game-page or denying players from viewing seasonal badges they may have earned on the game-page; neither of which are ideal for some developers. I understand that updates are gradual and this could very well be on the roadmap but the unfortunate probable scenario is that we are going to be left with this less-than-ideal scenario for many months to come.
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