Xbox Originals won't have achievements

by Christopher Grant on Nov 16th 2007 12:20PM

C'mon, you can tell us. You're an addict, aren't you? You've got a 40K gamerscore and you simply can't justify any gaming time if, well ... you aren't being compensated for it. Bad news then, junkie. The recently announced Xbox Originals (downloadable versions of original Xbox games) won't have achievements. It all makes sense if you think about it: these are unaltered disc images. If they didn't see fit to go in and remove things like demos or trailers that could actually crash your 360 if you select them, it stands to reason they weren't going to add achievements.

Now, the good news. Your gamertag won't be permanently sullied with achievement-related proof that you were playing Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space. Seriously, what's wrong with you?

[Via X3F]

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Tags: Achievements, Gamerscore, Xbox, Xbox-360, Xbox-Originals

Reader Comments (55)

Oh man, you sure burned them with that M$ usage there! I bet they shed a tear each time someone full of wit uses a $.

It's a tad ironic that it comes from a username begging for somone to buy a game from him.

wow ur an idiot, M$ is just a short version of the full name. How that would be considered derogatory if beyond me

Lets see, They take the copies of Halo or whatever game they have laying around and copy the game to the database harddrive. The BC software is built into the title. They put some software inbetween the server and client to make the download work. So your paying for a game that you could buy for 5 bucks from any EB games and have the same basic concept as this hardrive install. Except you paid less, don't have to wait 8 hours for it to download and DRM isn't an issue.

I'm all for good ideas, but lately they seem like money making ideas and not good ideas.

Actually, I just saw EB/Gamestop has jacked the price of Halo up to $25. I'm not sure if that is in relation to the announcement of the downloadable games, but it is an odd change.