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Name
06-08-2013, 04:51 AM
The patent application, which was filed last November and spotted by GamesIndustry International, reads: "Television viewing tends to be a passive experience for a viewer, without many opportunities for the viewer to engage or have interactive experiences with the presented content.
"To increase interactive viewing and encourage a user to watch one or more particular items of video content, awards and achievements may be tied to those items of video content.

"By tying the awards and achievements to particular items of video or advertising content, viewers may be encouraged to increase their viewership of the content, thus increasing advertising opportunities."

Achievements could be dished out for watching a single event such as the Super Bowl or viewing an entire series of a show, it adds.

Potential rewards include new avatar items, virtual money for a game, or even physical prizes.

Achievements could also be tied to viewers performing specific Kinect actions while watching content, Microsoft said.

At Tuesday's Xbox One reveal event, Marc Whitten, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Xbox Live, said that a new version of the online service will be "more powerful, more personal and more intelligent".

The new Xbox Live will offer enhanced cloud functionality, improved matchmaking, new social features, background downloads, skill tracking and an expanded achievements system, Microsoft added.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/409086/microsoft-seeks-patent-for-tv-achievements/

UWSCSS
06-08-2013, 04:55 AM
Really sickening.

x360a reported on this a while ago too. http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-15015-Microsoft-Patents-Achievements-for-Watching-Television.html

Name
06-08-2013, 04:59 AM
I apologize, I just thought I might post it on here for people on here to check it out.

CloudStrife7x
06-08-2013, 07:12 PM
lmao tv achievements really microsoft, yup i lost all hope now for the xbox one, not that i had much hope for it lol

John Henry Eden
06-08-2013, 07:25 PM
No, why Microsoft why? I... I mean... NO.

Swiftus
06-08-2013, 07:36 PM
I can see it now:

Fatty Ahoy - Gain 12 stone by not moving from sports tv for a whole week 50gs

The Light is Not For Me - Become a daylight dodging golumesk creature by watching late night movies for a month 100gs

Really MS, really?

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John Henry Eden
06-08-2013, 07:46 PM
I can see it now:

Fatty Ahoy - Gain 12 stone by not moving from sports tv for a whole week 50gs

The Light is Not For Me - Become a daylight dodging golumesk creature by watching late night movies for a month 100gs

Really MS, really?

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Microsoft will probably make it worse by saying that in order to watch tv and unlock achievements you need to buy the Xbox One.
And then suddenly a big Bill Gates trollface appears.

Genepool
06-08-2013, 09:51 PM
I remember reading this a while back.

thegutta
06-08-2013, 10:23 PM
Wow just what we fucking need it achievements to watch tv seriously Microsoft that's how low they going now to try to get us to buy the Cablebox One n watch tv all day wow they really pushing this system for tv more then Gaming SAD SAD SAD actually is more sickening then sad by now cuz if they haven't been reading watching listening to all the we gamers been talking about since there disappointing reveal press conference the means they don't really care what we think but whatever PS4 is gonna kick there ass anyways we all getting one :D

Serious_M
06-09-2013, 02:37 PM
watch tv 24 hours nonstop 1000G

Name
06-09-2013, 03:30 PM
If thats the case ill just do it. 1000G FTW!

Sephiroth
06-09-2013, 04:08 PM
Achievement Unlocked!!
10G - watching porn

Serious_M
06-09-2013, 04:11 PM
Achievement Unlocked!!
10G - watching porn
only 10G seph i tought of 10000G