Microsoft has teased an update that "fundamentally changes the concept" of Xbox Achievements.
Speaking to Windows Central, Xbox platform corporate vice president Mike Ybarra explained that his team is "working towards a bigger, more meaningful change about somebody's gaming accomplishments in history, as a gamer on Xbox."
The idea, it seems, is to reward those who intensively play a single game as much as those who play many games (and don't worry, score-hunters, it sounds as though traditional achievements will be sticking around):
"We can do a lot more to reflect and let people show their gaming history and their status," Ybarra continued. "Whether it's somebody who only plays multiplayer in Halo 5 at a professional level, maybe they only have 2,000 Gamerscore, you want to be able to celebrate that person."
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Speaking to Windows Central, Xbox platform corporate vice president Mike Ybarra explained that his team is "working towards a bigger, more meaningful change about somebody's gaming accomplishments in history, as a gamer on Xbox."
The idea, it seems, is to reward those who intensively play a single game as much as those who play many games (and don't worry, score-hunters, it sounds as though traditional achievements will be sticking around):
"We can do a lot more to reflect and let people show their gaming history and their status," Ybarra continued. "Whether it's somebody who only plays multiplayer in Halo 5 at a professional level, maybe they only have 2,000 Gamerscore, you want to be able to celebrate that person."
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