[360] Xbox 360 Gamer Scores Being Wiped

[jms493]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1220637p1.html

Many Xbox 360 users have had their gamerscores and games lists erased.

Microsoft's @xboxsupport Twitter account is being flooded with tweets complaining about the issue, and has responded: "we're aware of some of the gamer score issues at this time, and we're looking into it. Thanks so much for your patience!"

The Xbox support Twitter has asked gamers to try signing out of their profile, and back in to see if this resolves the solution. Some Twitter users are reporting a drop in their gamerscores, rather than a total wipe.

How epic would this be if it happened to twigger??? :gayrod:

Entertainment for weeks.
Love ya!

[Maynard]

whats a gamerscore?

[Chrispy]

People actually care about those things?

[Houston]

Drat.

[jms493]

People actually care about those things?

I think a lot do.......but most of them are probably kids and teenagers. I know some people compete to have the highest gamer-score in the world......which is borderline insane.

I used to look at achievements when i first got my xbox but now there are so many it that they have lost my interest. I just want to enjoy a game and beat it.

I know I play NCAA football the most out of all my games...100s of hours....I think my score for that game is like 140 or some shit...:joeybats:

[FedEx227]

I was into them when I first had the system and also when I worked at a video game store and we could "try out" any game. I was a total Gamerscore whore then.

These days if I get them cool but I don't go out of my way to accomplish things to get them like I use to.

[SethMode]

It's fun as a method to compete with some of my friends, particularly when the achievements are challenging or unique (Half-Life 2 Episode 1 for example had an achievement where you had to beat the game using only 1 bullet; while in Half-Life 2 Episode 2 there was a garden gnome you had to bring with you from beginning to end -- both were challenging, unique and fun). But overall, competing with a bunch of strangers is stupid. It's basically just like going for the best high score, but more silly because people literally buy or rent some games just for easy achievement points.

[killgod]

Well if people are dumb enough to buy games for cheesey points, all the power to companies to take advantage.

Sure beats me. It's an irrelevant as fuck number that causes far more annoyance than discomfort.


Sure I'd love to sit on my ass for 35 hours trying to accomplish some impossible task in a game I don't even like....all to add 40 to my 23423624368 sized score! My life is awesome.

No direct offence to anyone, but I really think you have issues if this type of activity is relevant in your life. Life should hold more value than to delve into doing shit like this.

[Buzzman]

I think achievements give me an extra incentive to do things I wouldn't normally do. Such as collect things. I never really care about the actual gamerscore, I do feel the need to 100% a game.

[padman59]

I like to look at people's trophies before I accept random friend requests to see if they have a similar taste in games. I don't really care what trophies they actually unlock very much.

[SethMode]

Well if people are dumb enough to buy games for cheesey points, all the power to companies to take advantage.

Sure beats me. It's an irrelevant as fuck number that causes far more annoyance than discomfort.


Sure I'd love to sit on my ass for 35 hours trying to accomplish some impossible task in a game I don't even like....all to add 40 to my 23423624368 sized score! My life is awesome.

No direct offence to anyone, but I really think you have issues if this type of activity is relevant in your life. Life should hold more value than to delve into doing shit like this.

My friend rented Avatar: The Last Airbender because you can get 1000 achievement points in the first like, 5 minutes. It's pretty sad sometimes, but I think at it's core it's pavlovian. I would be lying if I said that pop didn't get me a little excited. And likewise there are times on 360 where a friend logs on just as it is at a moment where an achivement would be unlocked, and I sort of feel like "aww".

Some people just take shit like that too far though, it's a little sad. It was like this kid in middle school that I knew that literally cried and stormed off because something happened to the Ms. Pac-Man machine that he had the high score on. Weird, weird stuff.

[killgod]

Well if you get something for beating a game, beating it on hard, sure. But to play a game for points? Not cause you're interested in said game? That's fucked up. To play a game for 100+ hours to get a single achievement that isn't about completing a game? That's fucked up.

[riley420]

So where do we turn in our gamerscore for money? I'm ready for that.

[killgod]

it's been fixed

[FedEx227]

Well if you get something for beating a game, beating it on hard, sure. But to play a game for points? Not cause you're interested in said game? That's fucked up. To play a game for 100+ hours to get a single achievement that isn't about completing a game? That's fucked up.

And while there are people that crazy, I've always completed a game as I normally would then check out some potentially achievable achievements and go back and maybe replay levels to try and get them.

It's just extra replay value for me over crazed madness to try and get 1000 on a game.