Windows Phone 7 Achievements to feature up to 200 Gamerscore points per game

then they just made like a million sales off of gamerscore whores!

The best part of the Windows Phone 7 is not beating the games, it's showing everyone online that I did.

Aww shucks you boys beat me to it!

Sweet. Time to throw the Blackberry out.

I LOVE the concept of the Windows phone. The social aspect of mobile phones has been severely lacking and limited but this new phone looks to be sort of a persistent social device keeping you connected the entire time across multiple platforms/services. If this phone plays nice with the Microsoft Courier due later this year, I'm all for it.

I'm a gamer, and Windows Phone 7 Achievements were my idea.

i want one , cant wait .

sadly this useless feature is going to cause a lot of idiots to go ape shit for anything that can get their "gamerscore" up. Up to what, i really wanna know. When does it stop.

I'm hoping most of the Windows Phone 7 apps and games will be functional on my Zune HD as well.

Somebody help me out with this, I don't follow. Why would you get extra GP for having a Windows phone???

Welcome to the Social............FINALLY!

Now people can rush to buy games like Avatar Arcade to get 200 points in minutes!

Really though. Love the concept of this phone. I'd totally buy one.

So.....when will PSP games get Trophies?

Gamescore on the phone? Hear that sound? It's like a million iPhones just cried out and were suddenly silenced.

I would hardly say this is a "useless" feature. I don't personally care for inflating my gamerscore but let's face it, gamerscores and achievements are a large part of the success of the Xbox 360. It's a great social aspect to gaming and this device is trying to bring it all together.

I want to see how they plan to support other apps besides games before deciding but I am digging what they have showed so far.

Does this mean that XBLA games could be getting a rebrand sometime soon? If WinMo7 games get 200 GamerScore, and considering the breadth of them are going to be MUCH smaller than XBLA games, then wouldn't a rebrand be in the works? Increasing the GamerScore cap for Arcade games would help differentiate XBLA and WM7 games (because, if you can get upwards of 200 points for a simple checkers game, and you can only earn the same amount for something like, say, Shadow Complex, then there needs to be something done).

Increasing XBLA games score cap to something like 400 GamerScore/24 Achievements would help remedy this, as well as free up ideas for Achievements in larger XBLA games like Shadow Complex and Call of Duty 1. Maybe even creating a higher tier of XBLA games that don't carry the "Arcade" moniker - a different name would be best - that can carry a higher GamerScore/Achievement number, because, let's be honest, something like Shadow Complex wouldn't be a real arcade game. Also, lets do something with those completion tiles in your profile (100% Achievements: the shoddy equivalent to the PS3's Platinums, which really are the only good thing about Trophies). And whatever happened to that beta program that allows you to exchange your GamerScore for Microsoft Points?

If they could make a mobile device that could play Xbox Live Arcade games on the go and get gamerscore from them, THAT would be sweet.

Oh no, they've found our giant orange glowing weakness.

So question. When you're online on your win 7 phone, do you show up as online in XBL? Is it basically the same as GFWL in that regard?