Braid a hefty price to pay..

[badgenome]

Onyxmeth said:

badgenome said:

bbsin said:

You don't use achievement points to buy games. The OP is trying to say that he got Braid instead of getting games that could possibly equate to 4000 achievement points... i think.

Actually he's saying he didn't go on Live in a while and had to, for some reason, recover his account when he went online to purchase Braid. By downloading his old profile, he lost 4000 achievement points he'd earned offline.

 

I don't get it. Once you recover your account, doesn't it give you your achievements back though? Isn't it tied into the account?

 

If you've been earning achievements offline and then recover your account, you're replacing the gamertag data stored only on your hard drive with the older data. If you actually go online first, then it'll update your gamertag data on Microsoft's servers, but as I read it the OP couldn't go online for some reason and had to recover his account first.

So be careful when recovering your account!