Xbox Tells Developers To Avoid Exploiting The Achievement System With Identical Releases

Xbox Targets Triple-Stack Shovelware Games: What Changes

Xbox is reportedly restricting identical Series X|S, Xbox One and PC releases with separate achievement lists. Here is what triple stacks mean and what players should expect.

Xbox Tells Developers To Avoid Exploiting The Achievement System With Identical Releases

They'll need to link versions together instead.Over the years, we've seen various games that attempt to tap into the "easy achievements" market and serve as a simple way to inflate your gamerscore, and that's a perfectly legitimate tactic in some cases.Xbox does have rules about this kind of thing though, and in their latest clamp down, they've seemingly targeted "triple-stack" games - a situation where a developer releases multiple versions of …

Xbox cracks down on shovelware by targeting triple-stack achievement games

Xbox's new rules could spell the end for shovelware triple stacks