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Xbox One twitch achievements detailed - be the hipster
- Thread starter MThanded
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Are people surprised by this. They put most apps behind the paywall.
I think there are plenty of metrics out there to prove that people very much care about media consumption and stuff that gamers would normally not associate with competition. Four Square and Get Glue are pretty damn popular. They haven't shown whether or not avatar or profile awards awards are part of their vision, but I see that being a smart idea.
Tidus_Great
Banned
I have a TV what exactly do I need an xbox for if I want to watch TV?
watching something is not an achievement. What's Next Breathing Air is an achievement?
watching something is not an achievement. What's Next Breathing Air is an achievement?
A small part of me expects MS to announce that third party apps will not be behind the Gold paywall at 2014/5 E3.
Bomber Bob
Banned
no achievement for watching a ps4 game?
Haha, bravo for reading my mind.
lol, great post.
Penguins&PolarBears
Member
FourSquare gives you real rewards and discount coupons for checking in at businesses.
Twitch just seems strange because it's sponsored by ads. There's just something perverse about it, more-so than Netflix. Also, Twitch is a great way to promote your games, so I don't see why MS wouldn't want everyone to watch streams. I've purchased games after watching Twitch streams on multiple occasions.
GillianSeed79
Member
As much as I dislike the idea of media-related, non-gaming related achievements, this is actually pretty ingenious. I honestly don't watch a lot of Twitch stuff outside of Giant Bomb live shows, but the PlayStation Live stuff is pretty awesome from what I've experienced so far. The only problem is that there's like 50 streams going at once and half of them only have like five or 10 viewers. There's such a glut of streams that I'm not sure which would be worth watching. Couple that with the fear that if I ever actually did stream anything I'd probably only end up with like 10 viewers and thus would be discouraged from ever doing it again. But if there's an incentive for people to actually watch steams on Live, that's pretty cool.
That would be bad for business at this point. People who bought gold to use those apps now feel like they have been ripped off.
You are right. However, the xbox one does not support streaming out of the box. Maybe when they get streaming working they will make it available to silver members.
Streetpass plaza!
It's really not.
Some people actually like this kind of thing. It's also smart of them to find some way to incent people to watch.
It also doesn't hurt the people who don't like this sort of thing.
Sure but Get Glue is literally nothing but allowing people to keep track of what they watch and getting virtual doo dads. It's the same thing with Steam trading cards that aren't tied to anything aside from play time. I'm sure they could design ways to offer discounts for people, but it would probably be easier to just make third parties provide badges. The encouraging thing we should take from this is that Twitch is obviously providing rich data to MS about time watched, number of viewers, etc. MS can perhaps levy that information in order to really make the experience on console better.
Say you are interested in a game and are perusing the store...you see a link below indicating that someone is streaming it, or that a friend has purchased the game. That's a good thing. The achievements are like the least inportant part of the post IMO.
ugh. I had this idea in my head of being able to quickly switch between watching tv and watching a league of legends tournament throughout the day
Edit: and a FGC tournament whenever marvel isn't on
Robot Pants
Member
Nope! I just unlocked two by quoting and reading your post!
careless mango
Member
"The Twitch experience on Xbox One will enable Xbox Live Gold members to view the full content catalog from tens of thousands of PC & console broadcasters on the Twitch platform."
This is fucking huge! This has to be the first Twitch app where that is possible.
Shame to hear broadcasting is delayed though, I was going to stream on Day One....
This is fucking huge! This has to be the first Twitch app where that is possible.
Shame to hear broadcasting is delayed though, I was going to stream on Day One....
Where was the "..."
Dorimukyasuto
Member
Crackle achievements
Since Sony owns Crackle why aren't there trophies for the PS4/3 apps?
Would kinda be fun to have 'em.
Septimus Prime
Member
Could be worse. Yelp has achievements that expire. "Oh, you didn't go to Baskin Robbins in the last couple of months? Badge re-locked, mothersucker!"
Turned me off from the whole experience.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
I don't get the people crying about achievements, you can turn them off and ignore the whole system if it really bothers you that much. They're an optional meta-game reward, stop acting like it's impacting your enjoyment of the app.
Yelp has achievements?
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Devalues them? What? They're virtual points that do absolutely nothing other than say "Hey, I've spent more time/money using this piece of entertainment than you!"
They were never meant to be anything more than a meta-game meant to extend replay value.
Septimus Prime
Member
The mobile app does, at least. They're called Badges, and you get them for things like writing a lot of reviews, checking in several times in various places, and stuff like that. Problem is they expire, which makes sense for things like writing reviews but not for things like checking into businesses in other countries that you likely won't be visiting again.
You need gold to use the console web browser. Where have u been?
It's stuff like this that sometimes makes me think achievements were one of the worst ideas to come from gaming. Like, this is offensively stupid enough that I'd want to AVOID ever using Twitch on XB1 as a result, hopefully if Sony expands it on PS4 they don't do the same thing, though even if they did at least they have privacy options so I can just hide the list, hide notifications, and leave it purely in the realm of morbid curiosity.
EDIT: Wait, Crackle has achievements? Does EVERYTHING fucking use achievements on that system? To go into crazy hyperbole territory I may hate this as much as the initially proposed DRM.
EDIT: Wait, Crackle has achievements? Does EVERYTHING fucking use achievements on that system? To go into crazy hyperbole territory I may hate this as much as the initially proposed DRM.
Ricerocket
Member
I believe saltybet is on 24/7. Just leave it on for free acheevs.
I am very much looking forward to AGDQ in January 5, 2014 though and everyone should watch regardless of achievements.
Yeah, I agree, that's why I said they were pretty worthless, but they did attempt to extend replay value because you'd actually have to do something to get them, most of the time. Now it's literally just watching shit, so they've become even more pointless now.
graywolf323
Member
pretty sure the PS4 versions don't have trophies
What's wrong with the actual achievement? It's actually a good thing that they would incentivize watching less popular streams.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
This post is hilarious
So you're saying something completely optional that has no impact on games or applications outside of providing an incentive for continued use is one of the worst ideas to come from gaming?
SwiftDeath
Member
all these media achievements are cool for those that want them
I damn well better be able to hide all those I don't want though
I only care for gaming achievements and not too much about that even
But if I go to my Achievements tab or whatever it is I better be able to hide any app achievements I don't want to see
I damn well better be able to hide all those I don't want though
I only care for gaming achievements and not too much about that even
But if I go to my Achievements tab or whatever it is I better be able to hide any app achievements I don't want to see
Purple Cheeto
Member
I'm pretty sure I've done everything that they're giving an achievement for already. Too bad I can't get them retroactively!
I did say feel for a reason, though technically it's also one of the only things that seemingly has actually had any hold outside of gaming that can be tied to it.
Just seeing this sort of thing applied to non-game (and non-fitness) stuff bugs the hell out of me for reasons I have a hard time pinning down. Probably because I'm seeing it on passive media like watching or reading something and it just comes off as a stupid gimmick at best, exploitative at worst, at least ostensibly a game's about challenging yourself and making accomplishments even if they're irrelevant ones, and similar to fitness except not-so-irrelevant.
Plus those achievement names are some of the most painful things I've ever seen.
Obscene Jester
Banned
This milking will make achievements completely unsatisfying and pointless.
The problem is too many simple things are "achievements".