Microsoft has teased an update that "fundamentally changes the concept" of Xbox Achievements.
Speaking to Windows Central, Xbox platform corporate vice president Mike Ybarra explained that his team is "working towards a bigger, more meaningful change about somebody's gaming accomplishments in history, as a gamer on Xbox."
The idea, it seems, is to reward those who intensively play a single game as much as those who play many games (and don't worry, score-hunters, it sounds as though traditional achievements will be sticking around):
"We can do a lot more to reflect and let people show their gaming history and their status," Ybarra continued. "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."
While Ybarra explained that the specifics of how Achievements will be altered can't be discussed right now, "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."
Xbox Achievements were introduced in 2005, and haven't changed a great deal in that time. In 2014, Ray Cox IV became the first player to hit 1 million Gamerscore and was given a lifetime Xbox Live Gold Membership for his efforts.
In the more immediate future, Xbox Insiders are currently testing a new update that will allow for much more customisation of the Xbox One's home screen.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he wants to be rewarded for spending the most time watching crime documentaries on Netflix. Follow him on Twitter.
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