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I usually do a quick sanity check of the scanner results for our weekly and monthly points leaderboards and your 0 (zero!) stood out. I had to do a double take. Hope you have more gaming time soon!
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Probably rehashing old discussions, but what changes would you all want to achievements? I like the idea of a âPlatinumâ and a way to look at the games a profile has 100%'d.
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The platinum or completed games thing is good. My opinion is going towards its on the devs to make better achievement lists 
Maybe Xbox can have stricter rules on what achievements can be?
I also think thereâs a bigger problem with ID@XBOX and what they find acceptable but thatâs only partially related to achievements.
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Yeah I donât have any particular wishes about the achievement system itself, other than the fact that the completed games list from the 360 dash would be nice to have back. Maybe even a customizable âtrophy wallâ on your profile just like on TA. But Iâm happy with the system really. I definitely donât want a Sony-style leveling system which is the other thing people often request.
I would like Microsoft to re-examine their standards for achievements and decide on a course of action regarding gamerscore-mill publishers. I donât know what the answer is. Maybe games donât pass cert if the achievement list is trivial and you can unlock everything in a few minutes without even experiencing the game.
By the same notion, none of the achievements should take more than 1 week to accomplish. All those obscene grinding ones like Gears Seriously shouldnât be allowed. And I say that having the Seriously 3.0 achievement. I think PlayStation has some Terms & Conditions around their Trophies not being grindy. It would be good to see that come to Xbox.
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There should be a distinction between ârealâ games and the crap, like it was on 360 where arcade games did not give a 1000 GS. Iâm fine with the fodder getting as low as 200 GS. The inflation ruins everything.
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While Iâm with you guys with wanting something to show completions similar to Playstationâs Platinum trophy, I honestly donât want them to start putting limitations around what kinds of achievements are available, or forcing developers to have achievements only take between X and Y time to complete. Sometimes I like achievements that are super grindy and take weeks or more of playing just to get the one, and sometimes I like being able to sit down with a game for an hour and unlock 1000GS.
The idea of going back to 200GS for some games seems like an okay idea except there are some indie games that would end up with 200GS that feel like more complete games than stuff from big studios that would get 1000GS.
As for âthe inflation ruins everythingâ my opinion is that it absolutely doesnât because achievements donât mean anything. If (outside of the 10k GS for $10 events) they gave you any sort of reward for your achievements then I could understand being upset by them, but not as-is. Iâve heard people (especially on TrueAchievements) say that achievements donât mean anything anymore, which is a misleading statement. Achievements never meant anything, and they likely never will. Theyâre just a fun mechanic that got added into games that some people enjoy getting and some people couldnât care less about.
My opinion is: if you think the âfodderâ games are ruining achievements then donât play those games. If you think super grindy achievements are ruining achievements then donât play those games, or at least donât go for those achievements. Does that mean youâll have fewer completions on your profile? Maybe. But you know what completions are worth? Absolutely nothing.
I mean, obviously achievements doesnât have a deeper meaning or purpose. Do you think that is what I think? We are on a gaming forum, in an achievement thread and that is the context in which this is discussed. If we could only care about the most important stuff, climate change is the only allowed topic I guess. Not super fun, or relevant. I hate the dismissal of everything that matters even a little bit to people like this.
We all know it is games and nothing about it matters in the grander scheme of things, jfc. That doesnât mean that it doesnât have some meaning to some people.
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Iâm down for a Trophy showcase or something for completions
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Iâm pretty lassez faire in most takes, but Iâd be for restricting indie games from using easy gamer score as a selling point.
The whole âgamerscore isnât worth moneyâ argument doesnât hold up well when people are buying cheap games for their 2 hour 1,000 GS. Canât stress enough that I donât care about GS either.
Iâm ok with super long grinds because for some people thatâll be a really special thing to pursue.
You know what would be awesome? If all games had achievements for sharing amazing photos or great videos.
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Wow, seems I struck a nerve. Might want to take a look at your life to see whatâs causing you to be so quick to jump on someone just for saying that achievements have no value and therefore it doesnât matter if games have easy achievements.
Yes, achievements have meaning to some people, but that meaning was created by those people. If you attribute some value to achievements for yourself thatâs fine, but donât get all pissy when I saw they donât have value for me, and certainly donât get pissy when I say that achievements shouldnât be remade in a way that suites your self-prescribed value that not everyone agrees with.
Oh god, Iâd hate that. Iâm one of those people that almost never uses photo mode, and on the incredibly rare occasion that I do I never go back to look at any of the old photos. Nothing against those that do use them, but Iâd personally hate for a bunch of games to suddenly have achievements for using photo mode.
Yeah, that was a bit of a rant wasnât it. I took out some frustration on you and your post and for that I apologize. I might not agree with you, but I went off a bit.
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Thatâs fair, it happens to everyone from time to time, and I appreciate the apology.
With that said, it also wasnât my intention to upset anyone, which I likely did. I was just saying my piece on the topic which I know doesnât align with the opinions of many in the achievement hunting community.
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Bring back the achievement page from the 360 dash where you could see your finished games. Or a trophy case like TA has. Events around achievements like TA does would also be nice to have.
How would this work? Who would made this distinction and by which criteria?
I have no idea tbh.
I like getting achievements but only in games I like. Iâm not playing Hannah Montana or Barbie games for easy achievements. Iâm definitely not buying shitty games just to get achievements.
I went back and started Assassins Creed Valhalla again while I go through Far Cry 6 so might be a slowish month. If I get 1000gs a month thatâs a good month for me and Iâm fine with that.
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Got the 1000gs in The Procession to Calvary. Had a lot more fun with the game and the achievements here than some grindy Ubisoft game. If you like puzzle games or point&click adventures with Monty Python painted all over it, you should try this out. Its pretty short and straightforward, took me maybe 3 hours 
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And this here is why I donât think they should bring back âarcadeâ games. Games like this end up being a lot more fun than some of the big titles each year, and plenty of people think that way.
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