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TrueAchievements was designed and programmed by Richard Stone, and launched in March 2008. It was conceptualized when Richard Stone determined that the current GamerScore system devised by Microsoft was inherently unbalanced; it would sometimes appear to offer only a few points for difficult tasks in-game, and many points for somewhat trivial tasks in-game.
The idea for game achievements can be traced back to 1982, with Activision's patches for high scores. [8] [9] This was a system by which game manuals instructed players to achieve a particular high score, take a photo of score display on the television, and send in the photo to receive a physical, iron-on style patch in a fashion somewhat similar to the earning of a Scout badge.
All regular disc-based games must have 1,000 Gamerscore points in the base game; the title can ship with fewer than 1,000 points, but anything added later must be free. [ citation needed ] Game developers also now have the option of adding up to 250 points via downloadable content every quarter after the first year of release (for a total of ...
This is a sorted by release date and name list of Games for Windows – Live titles; 73 (including released and former) video games under Microsoft's Games for Windows – Live platform, which include online gaming features. Two common features in all listed games are friends and achievements.
Video games rarely depict anything realistically. This is most obvious in the personification of animals. Just how much do animals in video games differ from their real life counterparts?
The compilation features new Achievements, and all difficulty and game modes are unlocked from the start. [3] The game launched with a total of 4,000 Gamerscore spread across 400 Achievements—the largest amount of Gamerscore given to a game since its introduction. [citation needed]
All regular disc-based games must have 1,000 Gamerscore points in the base game; the title can ship with fewer than 1,000 points, but anything added later must be free. Game developers also have the option of adding up to 250 points via downloadable content every three months after the first year of release (for a total of 1,750 points).
Ray Cox IV, [2] known online as Stallion83, is a video game player known for his high Xbox Gamerscore, points for completing in-game challenges known as achievements. He was the first player to reach 1,000,000 points in early 2014. [3] He held the position as early as 2008 [3] and was later recognized as the Guinness World Record holder.