Xitilon games - selling easy Xbox gamerscore and tons of it.

[Metalhead]

Xitilon adding nearly 20,000G in more title updates soon, considering Series X|S ports

What are your opinions on this controversial trend of attaching up to 4,000 Xbox gamerscore that can be earned in under ten minutes to shovelware games, which amounts to selling Xbox achievements and gamerscore pretty much directly?

 

[Misery]

My opinion, well... I'll put it this way: I see lots of distilled DUMB in this industry, but few things are higher on the totem pole than THAT concept.

I just.... arrrrrrrrrgh.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I've never been able to grasp this bizarre obsession with achievements and trophies and "gamerscore" and whatnot, that so many modern gamers have. It flies over my head. Seems like a lot of silly fluff to me. But people are freaking INTO it. I dont get it.

But I even moreso dont get it when people are willing to PAY ACTUAL FREAKING MONEY to get games that are JUST about that, particularly when the things they're giving out dont even require effort to get!

Just... why? WHY?

I mean really, you wanna impress someone with your skill... record a video of you doing something totally awesome in some game or other. It's unnecessary but at least it's better than "look at these shiny things I got because I did a thing". Particularly considering how easy most achievements are to do, in lots of games.

Bah, I'll stop there. This one is a long rant if I keep going.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

I never played online games at all, so I dont understand what the game score is for