If you're a fan of getting achievements on your Xbox One to increase your gamerscore, then you'll be interested to hear that Xbox's corporate vice president Mike Ybarra has discussed planned new features for the achievement system on a podcast (courtesy of Windows Central).
Gamerscore up until now rewards players for doing tasks and then adds it into a number, but Ybarra has questioned whether this is the best way to show achievements, especially considering the rise of esports where players can now be contracted to play games. He didn't say specifics of what he wanted to change, but he indicates that the core concept is being reworked.
"Those are all small things that we can do to the system, and the team looks at them. They're in our backlog of things that we want to get done, but there's actually bigger, more bolder changes that we have in mind. Nothing that I can talk about now, but something that fundamentally changes the concept ... we are working towards a bigger, more meaningful change about somebody's gaming accomplishments in history, as a gamer on Xbox."
"[W]e can do a lot more to reflect and let people show their gaming history and their status. Whether it's somebody who only plays multiplayer in Halo 5 at a professional level, maybe they only have 2,000 Gamerscore, you want to be able to celebrate that person. You want people to be in the know. This person doesn't play a lot of games, but they're world top ten at Halo 5. All the way to people [with over a million gamerscore]. It's that range that we really need to look at and celebrate ... we're going to go big in the area of letting people show off and represent their gaming history and the type of gamer that they are, far more than we do with Gamerscore."
What would you say needs to change about achievements and gamerscore?