: Just when I thought you guys had achievements figured out, here you come with
: some last-minute ones that exemplify poor achievement design. Anything
: that affects the way people play, especially if it encourages sub-optimal
: tactics, is inherently bad. When you are in matchmaking you aren't just on
: your time. You're on everyone else's time. And when you screw around and
: keep doing things you wouldn't normally do instead of actually trying to
: win the match, you're ruining other people's time. I pay good money for
: XBL. Time is money. Time is valuable period. I don't want other people
: wasting my time. MP achievements encourage them to waste my time just to
: increase their Gamerscore.

Honestly, I can understand why they would like to have multiplayer achievements. Lots of people enjoy going for them in multiplayer.

I think (and have always felt) that the best solution is either A) to keep single and multiplayer achievements separate in profile stats, or now B) have the ability to choose whether a MP game will allow achievement scoring or not. What would you think if you were to play multiplayer as if the MP achievements didn't exist? That you could turn them off when setting up games? Or choose a playlist that didn't include rewarding? In that sense you could rest in the knowledge that people in that playlist would be caring about the game-play rather than the personal scoring...

No-achievement MP playlists. amirite?