Comments on: Microsoft battles against Achievement cheating

By: yomomma

yomomma — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:21:02 +0000

you paying for that service is the funny part,,,,send me $20 and i’ll tell everyone the great gamer u are

By: Nekro

Nekro — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:09:30 +0000

You missed the point, getting all achievements in one day is not possible, not the completion of the game.

By: Pedle Zelnip

Pedle Zelnip — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:18:10 +0000

Actually, on www.360voice.com part of the reason the top daily changes are so high is because if you have earned achievements before you got your blog, and then play the game it will show up as a change in gamerscore for that day. Often if you look at those people who get the 3K or 4K change in a day they have very few actual achivements for that day.

By: J1980

J1980 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:33:37 +0000

Octually I ogree with yau

By: Tohaan

Tohaan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:55:00 +0000

Oblivion can be beaten in a day, simply by not leveling up. Morrwind could be completed in less than twenty minutes. Check this website out. http://speeddemosarchive.com/Morrowind.html

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:15:22 +0000

Right they should work on something that effects a hand full of games instead of the entire 360 online gaming community.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:29:14 +0000

You guys need an edit button.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:28:01 +0000

Octually when you get acheivments when you are offline it doesn’t say date and time because you can always change the date and time on your 360 when you are online.

By: Tucky

Tucky — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:09:13 +0000

good job thry crank down on cheating but dont get rid of gsmesave transfers, what happens when PES7 comes out? No Optionfile! i think not!

By: Moose

Moose — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:02:07 +0000

Why are they bothering with achievement cheating when they should be working on something important like bridging? MS has got their priorities mixed up.

By: Carabus

Carabus — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:20:37 +0000

It’s about time the cheating comes to an end

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:59:50 +0000

I like how Marvel does achievements/unlockables. You can have as many saves as you like, but unlocked characters and costumes are done by gamer profile. Xploited13 and I played on his file which is way farther than mine, and I still couldn’t use Ghost Rider since my gamer profile hadn’t unlocked him.

Irritating, but genius.

By: mu

mu — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:42:08 +0000

funny

By: mu

mu — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:41:33 +0000

call of duty on veteran is a great example of an achievement you can actually learn something about somebody from. unless this achievement was hacked with a gamesave, you know this player has got either a lot of skill, or tons of perseverance. but there are other games that can give up 1000 gamer points in less than an hour.
also, i feel that achievements are an opportunity for the game developers to show what they would like to see gamers do in the game, to lead the way down the road less traveled so to speak.
i like the idea, but it seems like save games should be more closely linked to gamertags. i don’t know if they are being altered or not when they switch from system to system, but it was foolish of m$ to think that people would not do that if they could.

- mu

By: El $corpio

El $corpio — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:13:20 +0000

Why don’t you understand it?

I said, the developers should program their games only to unlock achievements when they’re achieved and not if the game checks the save game and sees that the player has completed 100%

By: steven ratty

steven ratty — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:38:31 +0000

its about time

By: SilentAssassn87

SilentAssassn87 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:33:24 +0000

My thing is that the GamerScore doesnt say much. Its not really cheating because there no reward for it other than braggin rights. What should be looked at is STANDBY-ING!!! games like Saints Row and SCDA are games ive experienced it in the most. THAT is a cheating issue.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:00:42 +0000

No you dont know … He was one of the leading reasons that cheating is the way it is .. He would go too the site with saves he had to offer to others for other saves that he needed too complete games .. Like they were rare baseball cards ..

It the interview way back when he said he used cheat codes for games like Graw/Angels etc .. Not that he swapped profiles with ppl too not only obtain the lead but keep it till he sold his Tag.

By: J1980

J1980 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:47:31 +0000

Yeah I was half afraid to call. My gamerscore was upped by 750 using NBA 2K6 which I dont even own. In the forums Im welljasona - which shows my gamertag

By: McGrude

McGrude — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:40:39 +0000

That makes no sense what so ever.

By: mu

mu — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:40:14 +0000

don’t get me wrong, i am totally down with the concept of the gamerscore. it is very interesting when you meet a new friend to check out what they have done (i always go right to call of duty to check for the 1000). but people who cheat not only defeat the purpose, but expose what was formerly a well concealed flare for idiocy.

- mu

By: El $corpio

El $corpio — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:32:34 +0000

Good! I hate it when people cheat

The game developers should just program their games not to unlock via savegames…

By: Scruffy Lefty

Scruffy Lefty — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:15:30 +0000

ya no chance. Unless you could get rid of all load times

By: Taben

Taben — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:09:23 +0000

I like it, gives me a little more of point to play games, knowing that I am the top GS on my friends list and the top on all the leaderboards of all the arcade games lets people know I am good!

By: Curry

Curry — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:45:07 +0000

Haha you should’ve called and recorded, I’m curious what they had to say

By: Curry

Curry — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:43:21 +0000

We know, he admitted fairly that he used cheats. He “quit the race” though now that cheating has become the way to get high gamerscores.

By: mu

mu — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:40:20 +0000

wow, gamerscore whores are pretty much the bottom of the barrel in terms of malnourished ego, and willingness to be losery. i mean, who else but a bored, stupid, attention craving twelve year old tries to impress people with a six digit gamer score. christ.

- mu

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:59:11 +0000

I stopped playing the ranked games on PGR3 because of the Bridging. Got myself down to 565 before they reset the scores, everytime you went in a room you could hear the cheats shouting with glee at a high rank coming in the room, two laps into the race and everyone seems to quit, motherfuckers.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:56:10 +0000

I got them, and it took me 82 hours for the lot.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:51:46 +0000

Rance6 is a known account swapper … If you frequet www.360gamesaves.com you would know ..

Hes far from Legit … And the top 25 ( if not 100 ) are all the same.

By: Chûd

Chûd — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:49:12 +0000

Well, You unlock the achievements on your xbox, not on xbox live, so the date of unlocking will be added to the achievement. When you go online again, it just update you gamerscore and the dates of achieving achievements Capishe?

By: Fanappy

Fanappy — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:39:42 +0000

i like the fact u earn it urself personally!!! i’ve been waiting for a patch for DOA4 even with ppl only in the UK the lag is just plain stupid

By: DasBoot71

DasBoot71 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:35:58 +0000

They should worry about fixing bugs in their online games - I mean some of the games are completely unplayable - Prey and DOA4 . Achievements are so unimportant…

By: NOrderOnlyCHAOS

NOrderOnlyCHAOS — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:29:16 +0000

I couldn’t care less about this…

This is not cheating as I see it… in no way is GS cheating affecting me, or my gaming/online experience…

They should worry less about this and let these sad people fudge there scores…

There are plenty of Achievements in games that people gain through ‘cheating’ (i.e 8 hrs straight in GRAW, - just leave the lobby on LAN playing through), and it’s obvious when you check games list that they have used ‘other means’ than that which was intended… and what about some games (i.e. EA sports) that give gamerscore for pretty much buying the game, doesn’t sound like much of an Achievements….

Achievements whores can have all the points they want… if they still get their ass kicked in matchmaking then they’ll get laughed at.

Modding, bridging and the likes, that actually affect my experience online, is the type of ‘cheating’ that really needs sorting out IMO.

By: MrMoen

MrMoen — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:26:26 +0000

No way in hell man. It would take you weeks to complete them all

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:24:49 +0000

It’s only a gamerscore… people who cheat are sad, the people who complain about cheaters aren’t far off either.

By: OwningXylophone

OwningXylophone — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:02:51 +0000

Yeah, I remember seeing a guy on 360voice that got all 1000 poinst from PDZ in 1 day… Thats 1000 deathmatches played, the main story mode completed 5 times, plus more than that… Now, I worked it out and it is physically impossible to do this… If anyone wants to argue that then go ahead… You cannot win…

By: chris

chris — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:57:05 +0000

Its about time they stop the cheating

By: J1980

J1980 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:56:48 +0000

lol. I tried that thing where someone puts 750 gamerpoints on your profile, and two days later MS support sent me an email asking if I could call some 0800 freephone number…I never did call

By: StGermain

StGermain — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:44:56 +0000

That’s a good point you have there… I usually only go online myself when there’s a new demo to pick up.