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Achievements are a concept invented by Microsoft. A player is awarded and achievement when they perform certain actions within a game. Each game on the Xbox 360 has a number of achievements associated with it, usually around 50, though sometimes as low as 5 or as high as 99. Games on the Xbox Live Arcade service all have 12 achievements.
Achievements are a concept invented by Microsoft. A player is awarded and achievement when they perform certain actions within a game. Each game on the Xbox 360 has a number of achievements associated with it, usually around 50, though sometimes as low as 5 or as high as 99. Games on the Xbox Live Arcade service all have 12 achievements.
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Does Anyone Finish Games? 2009 Edition
Do people really beat games? For years there was no way of telling. Probably?
Luckily, its the future now and services like Xbox Live are watching our every move. It has occasionally been used for good, for example Valve used the tracking they put into Half Life 2 Episode 1 to identify and fix a sequence which was killing players far more remorselessly than they had intended. The achievement system is the first time that anyone has really promoted a system like this as a feature and encourage people to compare how they play games with others. If you know someone's Xbox Live user name then you can easily find out exactly what games they've played and how well they did in them.
Where am I going with this? How bout an enormous list? Everyone loves lists. Read on, please.
Do people really beat games? For years there was no way of telling. Probably?
Luckily, its the future now and services like Xbox Live are watching our every move. It has occasionally been used for good, for example Valve used the tracking they put into Half Life 2 Episode 1 to identify and fix a sequence which was killing players far more remorselessly than they had intended. The achievement system is the first time that anyone has really promoted a system like this as a feature and encourage people to compare how they play games with others. If you know someone's Xbox Live user name then you can easily find out exactly what games they've played and how well they did in them.
Where am I going with this? How bout an enormous list? Everyone loves lists. Read on, please.
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