What is the point of X-Box 360 and achievement points and gamer points?

I have had my X-Box 360 for around a month now and I still dont know whats the point of achievements and the gamer points?|||Just For fun... plus to make you work for things|||The point of Achievements is so that you might of completed the game, but you have reason to go back and complete it on a harder difficulty or do achievements you missed via mission select.





And Gamerpoints are simply things to brag about to be honest. No real point to them.|||basically it is for bragging rights,other than that they are useless.you cant spend them or any thing like that.its the same as the points here on yahoo answers.hope this helps.|||The point of it all is that gamers who have X-box live can then compare gamer achievement points and hours sort of as a way to see who the top gamer is.|||Acheivements are just a ploy to get gamers seriously involved in games and make people more competitive. Microsoft Points are a waste of money, I know, but they've got to make extra money for games aswell.|||The reason for the achievements is that so you have good replay value on the game. Basically your getting your $60 worth lol, where as a few years ago you just beat the game, and that was it. The achievements make you do different//fun things in the game. An example off the top of my head is the Mongoose Mowdown achievement for Halo 3. In a free for all game you run another player over with a Mongoose (4 wheeler). They just make things different :)|||The points are to show how "good" of a gamer you are. The purpose of achievements is to expand game play. Most achievements are designed to make you play in a place or at a difficulty level, or a game mode you normally wouldn't. So playing for achievements give the game more of a challenge or at least challenges them to leave their comfort level.


Getting 100% is quite a feat and will take far longer on most games than simply beating the game.|||Basically it's to show other players and your friends what goals and how many goals you have accomplished in your games.|||nothing|||they're just for fun





i also like to think of it as a way to keep gamers honest. everyone knows somebody who always claims to be the best and have beat every game. achievements help verify.|||like everyone els said...they're just for fun....no real actual purpose. They are just a way of rewarding you for your accomplishments in gaming. They give you a reason to play a game on the hardest difficulty, or pulling the biggest car stunt and stuff like that.





Though it would be nice if Microsoft would allow us to use these points to purchase minor rewards off of xbox live or something like that. But as far as I know, they are basically used to brag about our accomplishments in games.