How long does it take to hit 1 million gamerscore? In the early days of Xbox’s exploits, that seemed almost impossible. With an influx of quick title updates and quick completions, one TA member aims to explore and shine a spotlight on how easy a once-unfathomable achievement has become.
If you’re reading this, you probably already know about the current state of Xbox’s achievement system. There will always be publishers releasing easy games and quick clears, but ever since the door opened for a quick title update worth 1,000G a pop, an influx of easy gamerscore and deftly following Microsoft’s rules. More and more developers are avoiding it and offering more games. Gamerscore for the game. The whole discussion around these title updates and other controversies (see Aabs Animals, Cruz Brothers, One Step After Fall, Eastasiasoft, and most recently Ratalaika Games) is about those who welcome an easy G and those who don’t. caused strong divisions in the community among I believe the achievement system is wasted and no one has actually “achieved” anything in these updates.
One TA member definitely in the latter camp is Martel18, who is currently attempting a million gamerscore speedrun. I watched it live on TwitchIn just 6 days, Martel18 used the Gamertag BabyGamersSuck to unlock 3,766 achievements worth a total of 387,135 gamerscore (accurate at time of writing). So why are they doing this? According to Martel18, this desire was born out of curiosity.
“With a simple 1,000G game and title update opening the floodgates, it’s about how much someone can score in a day, a week, or a month, and how fast they can get to 100. We were interested in whether we could reach 10,000,” said Martel18. “After the latest account to do it in six months was set to ‘no tracking’ for abusive account sharing, of course solidified my decision to do it solo.” “
Achieving a million gamerscore was once thought to be near-impossible. It took Stallion83, the first “Gamerscore Millionaire”, years to achieve such a feat, but thanks to quick completions, 1,000G title updates, and other easy achievement titles, 100 10,000 gamerscore can be earned relatively quickly. Gamerscore is so plentiful these days that on day one of Martel18’s speedrun attempt, they hit his 250,000 gamerscore.
“Originally, we had no plans to hit 245,000G on day one, but just a few days before starting the effort, a daily record of just over 213,000G was set by LausDomini in September 2021, with Shadow Kisuragi I will give 1,000,000G to him for his work,” Martel18 said. “I did a deep dive that Xitilon/Desert Water/Whoever are currently publishing a catalog of their easy 2k-5k games. Made me pop out another group of visual novels from RB Skip when I needed a little break.
“I loaded Grounded, waited for midnight to come up, and at that moment booted a save file to start 2,400G. I left Aabs Animals idle while signing up with “.
Of course, 245,000G could be reached faster these days, but getting that much gamerscore in just 24 hours is a true test of endurance and a commendable feat. Martell 18 says they were “awake and coherent” throughout the day thanks to work schedules and having already had to flip their sleep schedules due to “ADHD hyperintensity.” Martel18 went so far as to prepare the food for the first day, so I could eat decent food as well as junk food.
Interestingly, just a few days after starting the run, Martel18 racked up so many gamerscore from quick completions in a very short amount of time on their BabyGamersSuck account that even though they streamed the whole thing for proof , Microsoft has banned them. Unbelievable that Gamerscore could be earned so quickly, Microsoft concluded that BabyGamersSuck was using unauthorized software to unlock achievements. “So if you don’t know how broken the system is now, you don’t know what’s going on,” Martel18 said. Luckily, my account has been unbanned and I can continue speedrunning.
The rest of the speedrun is fully mapped out in a spreadsheet featuring 772 games, broken down by publisher under common timing tabs. About 60% of these games were previously owned, and he’s then used his card to buy the rest, using sales and Microsoft Rewards points to earn $400 worth of Xbox gifts. Martel18 avoids games with an estimated completion time of more than four hours, but says: “Unicorn Princess, GoldenEye, My Little Riding Champion, Metal: Helsinger, Horse Club Adventure 1+2, Microsoft Games on My Phone, My Horse and Me 2, and Minecraft.” Martel18 took 21 days off in April and is aiming to hit 600,000 of his 1 million gamerscore goal this month.
So why is Martel18 throwing themselves into such a difficult task? What is the message they are trying to send? He said he would love to see the policy changes implemented in the Xbox Achievements system.
“At first, it was okay to have a few quick games to cleanse the palate after grinding out long, difficult games for a while,” said Martel18. Since that’s too much, you shouldn’t be adding 1,000G every 6 months to the content that’s already there, you shouldn’t be diluting your results for the sake of sales.
“If your game has 10 worlds with 10 levels each, there should be an achievement for reaching the end and some other achievements in between. Use them creatively. 150 in a playthrough Jumping times isn’t an achievement unless there’s something special about it, too many games achieve 100% at the quarter mark of the game.
“We expect a policy change from Microsoft. The 5,000G limit and the Title Update Score limit are for games to keep adding content and add Gamerscore to what was already there. I’m not saying that. no The title will be updated, but the cap will be lowered. Maybe 250G every six months. Big-budget games can always make an exception — perhaps a policy that requires games to have at least achievements to complete the story.
Martel18’s progress, TA (BabyGamersSuck) and convulsions.
