Cliffy B on why folks are obsessed with their Gamerscores |
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Non-gamers are used to collecting points, say for example web dollars or e-coupons, that they can later trade in for something. Nobody was more surprised than Microsoft entity Aaron Greenberg when their amazing brainstorm, the Gamerscore - the achievement points system that allows players to collect points and trade them in for absolutely nothing, turned out to be such a phenomenon.GameDaily has a feature on several gaming celebrities and gaming analysts' take on Gamerscores. Well skip over the opinions of most of the analysts, and we'll relay to you folks the take of someone that we feel you guys could relate a bit more to.
Here's Cliffy B and his take on the obsession with the Gamerscore:
It's nerd cred, man! ...It's so clever, I mean, it's just a score. You may say it can't be used for anything, but gamers use them for pride. They're pride points! You can compare it to the feeling you get when you pull up to a restaurant in a Lamborghini. People go, 'Oooo, he must be somebody.' In the virtual world of gaming, points create that same sense of rank and envy, and that's why gamers have latched onto them. I read that people are picking up the Burger King Xbox games just so they can score additional points. If that doesn't prove how well this program is working, nothing does.
Yeah, it's all about pride and showing off your gamer-wang. That and the feeling that whatever it is you're doing in the game, matters - to yourself, and more importantly to a large gaming community.
Via GameDaily
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If you wrote that last paragraph you're a complete tard. You're supposed to play games to have fun and enjoy yourself, not impress people you don't know and who don't really care about you. Anybody who thinks like that needs to get a life
Clifft B is a little bum cricket. He needs to concentrate on making longer single player games (gow anyone). M$ should buy epic and then we can all watch it vanish into the mist just like Rare. LMAO
Gears was a pretty short game single-player, but it's got quite some replay value, given the inclusion of co-op, multiple difficulties, and ACHIEVEMENTS. And multiplayer is hella fun too once you get the hang of it.
it then gets ruined by tossers who organise on line battles with all their tosser mates and set out to work together to get all the online points. way, way too sad.
If you play games just to collect the points you need a life. Why bother anyway? Achievements mean virtually nothing now, what with all the cheating (saves, boosting for the online points). If you have more than 50,000 points chances are you cheated, and even if you didn't everyone will think you did so why bother?
Well, while you moon crickets are sitting around on your porches racking up points on xbox live, I'm out at the clubs getting my dong sucked by hot chicks. Peace Out.
Ok you know what i dont care how you throw around your biased opinions its not going to make you a single $ in this world!!! So go play your Resistence game online with all the other 200,000 people who think the same. You dont belong here. Im sure a lot of people agree with me when i say that Cliffy B. is right. I mean Achievments are just what there called Achievments. So when you go online and see that your friend has beaten Call of Duty or Gears on the Hardest setting you can private chat with them and say "hey im having trouble on the level you wana coop?". This in turn makes the player who already beat Gears feel better about himself, while in turn the guy who couldnt gets some tips on how to play better.
I play games to have fun killing things and kicking asses on live. i'd rather go pump iron than earn achievments so nerds can masturbate over my gamer score>> you guys need to go out side once in a awhile...
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