Gabriel Stanford-ReisingerIn 2020, Bethesda figurehead Todd Howard revealed that Microsoft made a game specifically for him netting the game producer a cool 1,000 Gamerscore. The game was meant to commemorate his Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC 2016.
TrueAchievements reports on the mysterious Achievement handed down after Howard jokingly questioned how many Achievement Points the award would be worth. Sitting in the audience, though, were some “good friends” who worked for Microsoft who told him they’d find out.
He was then sent a code a couple months later for a self-titled game locked to his account that from our understanding just unlocked one Achievement — Lifetime — which net him a cool 1,000G.
“I joked in my acceptance ‘I wonder how many achievement points this one is worth?’ At the end of the ceremony, some good friends from Microsoft congratulated me and said they’d find out. A few months later, I was given a code to a game they had created, named after me and locked to my account. When ran, it unlocks a single achievement — ‘Lifetime — 1,000pts. It still sits in my list when I check, and I smile every time.”
Of course, this is just a goodwill gesture from game dev friends congratulating a storied game dev for his achievements, so we suspect the game itself is a nothingburger and was just a means to give him the Gamerscore.