Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Achievement Glitchers Get Their Just Desserts

The News: MS has announced that people who glitch games and use game saves to cheat to get achievements will now be punished. They will have their gamerscore returned to 0, all previous achievements earned will become locked, and their gamer tag will be branded like this.

My Views: Huzzah! This is a change that needed to be made. There were far too many games that could be glitched like this, Guitar Hero 3 being one of them (enter the "unlock everything" cheat and you unlock all the achievements for buying everything in the store), among others. Although gamerscore isn't exactly something that comes up in everyday conversation, it's a way to gloat to friends every so often about how much you (go figure) achieved in a particular game. This announcement helps establish gamerscore as more than just an arbitrary number.

Source: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/861/861823p1.html

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