It’s been bugged for months if not years. Even if it takes you longer than 33 min. to finish a weekly trial, you still get the achievement. vMA seems to be considered a trial in that regard.
aaah, cheers - it probably took me closer to 33 hours to complete it than 33 mins was only my second run!
Wanted to report as I didn't think it was as intended. Glad it's something ZoS are already aware of. Any ideas if that erroneous achievement specifically can be removed from my character?
Sorry, but I don’t know of a single case where Zenimax revoked an achievement from someone’s account. Not even if said achievement was obtained because of it being bugged.
The weekly trial completion is intended and not a bug--Maelstrom is a single-player trial.
The weekly time trial completion is bugged, but the bugging might also be intentional. When that achievement was first introduced, there were only 2 trials, and their speedrun requirement was 33 minutes. Other trials added later either have no speedrun requirements or have speedrun requirements that are longer or shorter than 33 minutes. If vHoF was the group weekly, there's just no way anyone would get a 33-minute weekly.
So the weekly time trial achievement is really an obsolete achievement that doesn't quite fit with the current slate of trials. And as a result, the breaking of this achievement to ignore the time check might just be intentional.