Xbox Apparently 'Wants' To Overhaul Achievements, Someday

Please add the feature to delete games off our profile. Update the achievements tab and use 4K HDR pictures on the games. After that i am not sure there is much else to do with them.

I dont mind that they are looking at this as it shows they want to improve.
I dont really care for achievements at all, I have no idea what I have and have no compulsion to seek that info out. However, on PS5, I do seem to be more invested in the trophies and for a favourite game I will seek out and chase a platinum trophy. I think it was the platinum trophy that made me play Elden Ring three times through to get it. I didnt even save scum!

Its hardly a much needed overhaul, but if the achievement system was tweeked in a way that got a similar investment from me, Id be happy, as there have been times when trophy hunting on a game has given it added value and fun. I must have missed some of that on my xbox games, which is a shame.

@Kaloudz why? I feel like they could play a bit with the margins to denote what is and is not a rare cheev and I could be wrong because I've not gotten a cheev in a while but the different sound effect, if any, is pretty nice.
I would like to know more about rare cheevs though, I completely forgot about this side of gaming for a while now that you mention it.
Does a 'rare' achievement ever lose its rare status?
Or does a none rare achievement become rare after a while? I'm no trophy hunter so I wouldn't know.

@senote yes i 100% agree. That is what i want to be able to delete. I will gladly give you back the 5G or 10G i unlocked. I want my list to be what i played and enjoyed. Seems small to some gamers i know. But it’s a huge feature to me.

Apart from a slightly different jingle when the rare ones unlock, do they ever show as any different?

@Kaloudz I kind of like your idea and the % of players getting the achievement. It is kind of fun when you unlock something that <1% of people have. Especially on a game that isn't new.

That said, one of the reason i like Nintendo is they avoid this general nonsense.

@Kaloudz

Most my rare achievements are unlocked simply because not a lot of people bother with side content etc... so I see it less as a rarity and more of a scarcity. If that makes sense?

Yh that makes a lot of sense, I've seen it mentioned before throughout the years. I've spoken to trophy hunters about it before, hence why trueachievement have their own score system and formulas for cheevs and whatnot which iirc was based on their actual difficulty.
Worth checking out if you haven't.
Also I suppose if you remove the rare cheevs on xbox, the whole thing might become a bit barebones 😭
On playstation you at least have bronze/silver/gold/plat.
Now whether you're against or for it, there's at least more to it in that way.
Maybe you've acquired some of my man Indy Jones tendencies and would like to see rare achievements in a museum instead 👀

Little late to be adding a Platinum equivalent IMO. By the time they possibly implement it, 3 consoles worth of games that have Achievements won't be eligible.

I would like them not to introduce an "platinum" style achievements as in my case I really like to see my gamerscore going up but I almost never care about going for the boring last achievements. As it is I do rank up some 2000-3000 on a good month while finishing 2-4 games but I believe I've completed no more than 5/6 in 3 years

This seems like such a stupid statement; Microsoft is an absolutely huge organisation, are they seriously trying to suggest that they cannot spare 20 or 30 people to tinker with the Achievement system?

Bearing in mind that this is something that the userbase has been calling for for years, you would have thought that it would have garnered at least a little bit more imputes...

This is a terrible idea for one reason, you can’t just copy Sony’s homework if you want to stand out.

@Titntin i will make a little fun of myself here. When i was much younger i loved the achievements on 360, when the PS3 later made Trophies i loved that too. I would actually buy or borrow a game on PS just to get the trophies that i unlocked on 360. So i was double dipping lots of games. Once the PS4/X-One gen started i stopped doing that and now i still like them on games i really care about, say like Diablo 4 i am only missing 5 and i plan to get them once i can. But now most games i just don’t care about them as much as i find most of them to be to involved like hunting down every hidden thing or kill 4 million players online with the worse gun in the game. I am just not interested anymore to give my time to those. Diablo 4 has the best list to unlock that i have seen in a long time. But yes at on point i cared way to much about increasing my gamer score on good games. I have never bought my little pony cause it was a quick 1000G HAHA

@VoidPunk not sure they will copy it for sure until we see their idea but the PS3 copied the Xbox’s homework, wasn’t like the PS3 had a reward system from the start. Now it’s just making them standout from each other in a way that is easy for dev’s to support it. 😊

@Kaloudz whatchu talking about, you got a whole ass conversation on your destiny 1 flawless raider post 😭😂
But yh I guess it's different for newer posts, instead of looking back at nearly a decade ago.

They could go away tomorrow and I'd not miss them. Not even a little bit. They were originally going to be used as "currency" to buy DLC, etc. Well....we saw greed took care that.

If really take a moment to think about achievements. They are essentially a virtual sticker. Video game equivalent of going to the dentist as a child and getting the "Great Patient" sticker. Completely worthless and no value.

@HonestHick lol, yeah I understand the lure. Ive never been one to buy a game for a cheap trophy or achievement though. Thats just crazy 😀

@Titntin buy? No. Gamepss? Heck yeah. Especially with the events that yield points for every achievement. Game pass pays for itself on those

@Titntin yeah same here. I seen people with some questionable games and had the plat or 1000G. But i remember playing Diablo 3 and Borderlands and a hand full of others i really liked on both consoles for the points and trophies. I quickly stopped doing it. Now unless i love the game i rarely pay too much attention to them. I still do wish i could delete games i tried and got 5G for finishing the tutorial and now it’s forever on my list and i don’t even like the game. I understand why it’s not a feature, i just wish it was.

Does Xbox have a 'hidden games'?

Otherwise yeah delete apps/games would be nice. Hate Google/Microsoft does this tied to account thing it's stupid.

In terms of achievements many ways to expand on them but how not sure.

They did rare achievements. They have rewards, what else can they do. I mean do we get concept art/behind the scenes in games sure. Do you special messages for beating games I guess so?

What can you add, multi-stage achievements?

Different point values?

A profile icon/avatar or something else for it?

No idea.

I would really like Xbox to take UI cues from Playstation. The PS3, 4 and 5 dashboards have been elegant at launch and the Trophy system is vastly superior to Achievements.

@Benjamin
Personally, I don't value trophies near as much as achievements. But, over time both trophies and achievements have become less and less meaningful as some gamers brag about their achievement/trophy collection and you dig in and they are just playing games that hand out achievements/trophies like water.

It would be nice if there was a gaming community council deciding on whether a trophy/achievement list should be accepted or not. And should be based on the principles that you have fully played all the content of a game and discovered the best and most unique things in the game.