?Achievement points

They are a great way to compete with your friends. If you have any gamer friends, especially in real life, it is a great way to say "ha, I'm beating you!" Sadly, my friends almost all have more achievements than I do since I slack off and only have played like 20 games or so.

They are also a measure of how much people have explored certain games, and, in some cases, how good people are at a given game. They are also proof that you have done something in a game, such as beating Call of Duty 4 on Veteran.

At least for me, they have inspired a lot more replay value in multiple games and have compelled me to explore and do certain things that I might not do otherwise.

mostly useless, agreed, but i think theyre a lot of fun to get. i find myself look at them so i can be sure to try to get them. i love getting secret ones, those are the best

in the end, they only really amount to bragging rights in some cases, just fun replayable things in other cases

Wish they didn't have them, they're useless. And people take them way too seriously, I seen a guy his GamerTag was actually Achievement and he had 94,000 points. 360 is pretty much his life it seems, thats really sad to tell you the truth that someone play Xbox that much. They should have made them at least have some sort of value like X amount of Gamer Score points could become X amount of Microsoft points.Ket87

Currently the achievement leader in points is Stallion83 with 161,695. There was this one player by the name of Sofoor that had over 200,000 gamerscore points, but we all know he used a hack to obtain his. It was blatant because he systematically unlocked 1,000 points in less than 5 minutes for every single retail game and XBL arcade game. Not to mention he had a 101 percent completion rate. People will go to extreme lengths to feel some sort of gratification, no matter how pathetic it makes them become.