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Tiered Gamerscore badges are coming to Xbox profiles

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I don't know what I'm supposed to be excited for here
 
Looks like Diablo 3 combining gems. The gems get bigger and bigger.
Then Diablo 4 went and ruined the gem thing.
Diablo 4 ruined a lot of things. :(

Any special Gamepass badges?
 
I wonder what Phil is thinking knowing how easy it was to run Xbox after all? Throw out some color profiles and gamerscore badges and you are golden. That, and have tits a nice smile.
 
Yes, make the environment more appealing for the extra hardcore gamers while alienating casual users. That will work.
 
reinking said:
I wonder what Phil is thinking knowing how easy it was to run Xbox after all? Throw out some color profiles and gamerscore badges and you are golden. That, and have tits a nice smile.
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I spent a few years working with upper management and decision makers at a game company on things like market strategy and feature implementation, the biggest thing I tried to get them to understand is that they need to listen to the ideas of the people who use their software on a daily basis. A lot of the ideas users have are going to be shit - it's your job as a decision maker to decide which of their ideas have enough of a voice behind them to understand where the "pain points" users in their system are from people actually experiencing them. Which complaints are heard the most often that have merit? Can they be easily addressed?

More often than not (and I suspect it was the case of Microsoft under Phil), these companies have a mindset like "well people are already spending money on our platform, so if we do nothing different we'll just keep making money." The overwhelming majority of the time, the developers working at these companies would come up with cool ideas that would be shot down by upper management because they didn't wanna rock the boat and potentially lose out on the gravy train they were riding.

Oftentimes quick wins like this are easy to implement, generate positive press, and ingratiate your platform to its users. If people feel like they have a stake in the platform, they're more likely to spend money on it. To me, it's really weird to see stuff like this coming from Microsoft. But it's refreshing.
 
They're disappointingly samey. It's taken me since the dawn of achievements to get to almost 150K. At this rate, in about 7-8 years I might earn a new badge that looks almost identical.

After that, there's probably nothing to look forward to except death's cold embrace. Yay!

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reinking said:
I wonder what Phil is thinking knowing how easy it was to run Xbox after all? Throw out some color profiles and gamerscore badges and you are golden. That, and have tits a nice smile.
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Phil Spencer loved to talk about how he listens to the feedback of customers, but seems as if he just listened and but did nothing as far as improving the Xbox user experience. This is basic shit that could/should have been done a long while ago.

I didn't think anyone could make Phil Spencer look more incompetent than he already did, but Asha is proving that wrong.
 
I've always thought of things like Gamerscore, Achievements, and Trophies as being more akin to "badges of shame."

I like video games plenty, but in no way should playing too much be seen as something to brag about. They should be done away with entirely.
 
Dr Bass said:
I've always thought of things like Gamerscore, Achievements, and Trophies as being more akin to "badges of shame."

I like video games plenty, but in no way should playing too much be seen as something to brag about. They should be done away with entirely.
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They're fun if they're tied to unique in game challenges or milestones.
 
Dr Bass said:
I've always thought of things like Gamerscore, Achievements, and Trophies as being more akin to "badges of shame."

I like video games plenty, but in no way should playing too much be seen as something to brag about. They should be done away with entirely.
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No, they shouldn't. These are optional activities. Playing "too much" is subjective. I'm not going to tell anyone else what they can/can't do in their free time.
 
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Nice though my badge wont be amazing. Im the type of gamer that finds a game or franchise I like and hard focus on it like destiny cod etc. Play the same game have fun with it for months on end or longer.

Cool for people that chase gamer score or playing crazy amounts of games.
 
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These look good, I wonder what the 10 million badge looks like. Nobody has reached 10 million gamerscore yet.

I still would like a secondary layer of the achievement system, similar to what Epic store does for their achievements. They combined gamerscore with Silver, Gold, Platinum trophies. But rather than using precious metals, Xbox should use precious gemstones, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond. They're almost there already, I need to figure out a way to get feedback to Asha, maybe I should email Jez Corden.
 
Dr Bass said:
I've always thought of things like Gamerscore, Achievements, and Trophies as being more akin to "badges of shame."

I like video games plenty, but in no way should playing too much be seen as something to brag about. They should be done away with entirely.
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I knew a guy back on 360 on Xbox Live, who slowly became obsessed with maxing his gamer score. To the point where he was going to "boost" his score with real money or he'd play something obscure for the quick grind. I learned very early on that it wasn't for me. It felt exhausting and it was playing for greed. I would rather see total games played. That to me shows more about the person than the amount of objectives you grinded out.

I've gone back and forth with it. I've got a big list of played games, which cost me a lot of money. It was worth it because I beat a lot of them, but I don't have an impressive trophy list. I have a bit over 4k PS trophies? That's big to me but nothing like some players I've seen out there.

It doesn't make me a better gamer. If anything, it causes some unwanted rivalry. Getting to sit down, relax and enjoy a game is one thing. Having to compare gamer scores isn't fun at all. Wow, my buddy id talk to about this game just clocked 20 more hours and I get to see his progression. It's kinda stupid. If I have to always be reminded that so and so got X or Y more hours in a game than me. Where's the freaking fun in that?

If that's her big idea of change for Xbox, I'd much rather stay away from the brand.
 
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This is really cool. Asha definitely getting me itching to convert back to Xbox. I wonder if she'd let me in the Queensguard
 
Northeastmonk said:
I knew a guy back on 360 on Xbox Live, who slowly became obsessed with maxing his gamer score. To the point where he was going to "boost" his score with real money or he'd play something obscure for the quick grind. I learned very early on that it wasn't for me. It felt exhausting and it was playing for greed. I would rather see total games played. That to me shows more about the person than the amount of objectives you grinded out.

I've gone back and forth with it. I've got a big list of played games, which cost me a lot of money. It was worth it because I beat a lot of them, but I don't have an impressive trophy list. I have a bit over 4k PS trophies? That's big to me but nothing like some players I've seen out there.

It doesn't make me a better gamer. If anything, it causes some unwanted rivalry. Getting to sit down, relax and enjoy a game is one thing. Having to compare gamer scores isn't fun at all. Wow, my buddy id talk to about this game just clocked 20 more hours and I get to see his progression. It's kinda stupid. If I have to always be reminded that so and so got X or Y more hours in a game than me. Where's the freaking fun in that?

If that's her big idea of change for Xbox, I'd much rather stay away from the brand.
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I really like the Xbox achievements. I like them a lot.

To the point where I'd rather play something on Microsoft's platforms rather than other (superior) ones, because it has achievements that tie into the account I've had for 20+ years.

I know you get the exact same thing on other platforms, but things like Steam achievements don't really register with me. If I have a game on Xbox, I'll often replay it in a way that earns the achievements, but on Steam I'll just finish it and forget it.

This is addiction, right?
 
"Heard you" would have been a funny counter for the meme and deflated it had she attached the comment to something like an IP revival...
 
241K for me, but not really playing a lot of new games lately. Mostly Division 2 and Diablo 4. Not many achievements to get. I actually was in the Beta testing for Xbox Live back in the day.
 
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