{"id":9897,"date":"2018-01-09T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312776"},"modified":"2018-01-09T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:40:00","slug":"microsoft-is-working-on-a-new-xbox-career-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/microsoft-is-working-on-a-new-xbox-career-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is working on a new Xbox career system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working on a new &#8220;career&#8221; system for Xbox achievements, aiming to\u00a0extend\u00a0beyond the current Gamerscore system which rewards a tallied number to players for completing certain objectives in a game.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/xbox-career-system\">reported by Windows Central,<\/a>\u00a0the new\u00a0system is allegedly being implemented to alleviate the problem where Gamerscore\u00a0doesn&#8217;t fairly represent the accomplishments of esports players or other gamers who might spend the majority of their time in a single game.<\/p>\n<p>This new career system could affect how developers choose to use achievements in their games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/AkiJarvinen\/20090305\/83404\/Psychology_of_Achievements__Trophies.php\">which could serve to attach new meaning to the score.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The career system comes with quests\u00a0to complete tasks (like playing specific\u00a0games) which will come with cosmetic loot crates for avatar customization and experience points as rewards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although not intended to replace Gamerscore, the career system will incorporate achievements by\u00a0rewarding experience points that will\u00a0contribute toward levels\u00a0in a player&#8217;s career, tracking\u00a0progress and play time through\u00a0their existing game library.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working on a new &#8220;career&#8221; system for Xbox achievements, aiming to\u00a0extend\u00a0beyond the current Gamerscore system which rewards a tallied number to players for completing certain objectives in a game. As reported by Windows Central,\u00a0the new\u00a0system is allegedly being implemented to alleviate the problem where Gamerscore\u00a0doesn&#8217;t fairly represent the accomplishments of esports players or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}