Yes, you can get achievements for watching TV on Xbox One
Yes, you'll be able to unlock an achievement for watching TV with Xbox One.
Yes, you'll be able to unlock an achievement for watching TV with Xbox One, by linking your cable box through the HDMI input. And that's not all. "We're going to have more achievements for media experiences in general," Xbox's Yusuf Mehdi told us. "You're going to see more of in a lot of different places."
In a new screenshot released by Microsoft today, you can see exactly how achievements in entertainment apps might work. In addition to the usual one-off achievements, there will be time-based "challenges" that can encourage you to watch a specific show. In the case of Amazon Video, it would be Betas.
Achievements in entertainment apps won't affect your Gamerscore, however. "Only games will give you Gamerscore," Major Nelson pointed out in the summer.
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I agree that it sounds vaguely insulting. It also sounds like the exact type of reason why I kind of hate MS right now because this smells like 100% nasty advertising cooked up by committee of money hungry suits. CW is going to pay them millions of dollars to give people achievements for watching Vampire Diaries or some shit. It just sounds so gross.
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If they want to do something like that then just build in a suggestions system which uses information collected from your friends. Making it an achievement just makes it feel like coaxing people into doing what they want in a very skeevy kind of way. I don't like it. It just comes across like offering kids candy to get into Microsoft's Pedo-Van. It's just... gross.
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This is the lamest attempt at disguising advertising that I've seen in a long time.
Wasn't there a whole bunch of websites around about five, ten years ago that tried this same thing? "Watch these videos to earn points", so on. I seem to recall they were almost invariably pyramid schemes or something similar, and now are out of business. So... Microsoft is taking business tips from pyramid schemes now. Great.
Mind you, I get the achievements for using the XBO itself. A certain subset won't bother with certain features unless there's direct incentive. It's the achievements for watching specific shows and/or using specific third party services that just sound horribly lame. -
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Achievement unlocked: Cord cutter 0 GP
You haven't watched TV in a year!
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If I buy an XB1 will they give me a retroactive achievement for making it through every episode of Dexter without killing myself?
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The achievement icon should be Dexter dressed up as a lumberjack.
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The best thing about the ending to Dexter is that it's over.
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They've gameified passive entertainment. They've literally created a game for people who can't be arsed to make any effort at all!
Pretty smart, really.
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It just runs as pass-through between your cable box and TV. It takes the signal from your cable box and overlays shit before it goes to your TV. The programming stuff etc it must get by knowing your cable provider and your area (probably something you need to enter when you setup your XBO the first time).
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It might be kind of cool if the Achievements recognize some of the big Live TV programs of the year like the Superbowl(or any Pro-Football Game), the State of the Union, the Presidential Debates or Conventions, and the Oscars.
I wouldn't mind some sort of "Political Junkie" Achievement, or "Football Fan" achievement. Might even be cool if it could recognize which team I watch every Sunday and I get a "Cowboys Fan" achievement.
Who here hasn't been sitting at home watching Nature Documentaries or Science Documentaries about the Universe or How Stuff is Made and wished they could be recognized by their lessers/peers as the Superior Intellects they truly are? -
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ROFL now this is funny. They should add a prosthetic arm to the
side so it can high five you for tying your shoes as well.
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