http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/engineeringblog/achievements-unlocked.htm

Nice reading here with good info.  It's kinda over my head though.  Too much info.

I love achievement points and love to hear that sound when i get points.  I'm nearing 2500 points.  Good article.

I love completion rate, I have around 92% not including DLC.

yeah achievements are pretty awesome

I would venture to say Microsoft had at the time and is still full of employees who play the World of Warcraft at work and at home.

The World of Warcraft is all about achievments and titles for those like myself who were pathetic enough to think they mattered.

I'm so confused, your profile and sig look nothing like a glorious example of the Krogan race...

Anyways, looks interesting and I'll read it later, too tired to read through that at the moment.

You do know WoW achievements came after the 360 right?

I liked it better when the game designers didn't fully understand the system.

10 achievements and 1000 Gs.

Now a game has 50 or achievements.  I'm lucky to get 500 Gs now.

Achievements have been a hugely popular part of the Xbox 360 experience. So much so that we’ve expanded their presence into PC games with Games for Windows LIVE and soon into mobile games on the upcoming Windows Phone 7.

I thought they scrap the idea of windows Phone.

No, they scrapped Kin, which was a half assed attempt to cash in on the social network craze.

and steam before 360. so yeah.... and i am pretty sure many games had small archivements, :D, i had one because i killed omega weapon in FF8