{"id":941780,"date":"2025-12-30T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtdfM2rRgaww9VdT5jVVY4"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:55:22","slug":"microsoft-gave-todd-howard-an-exclusive-1000-gamerscore-achievement-in-2016-and-we-finally-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microsoft-gave-todd-howard-an-exclusive-1000-gamerscore-achievement-in-2016-and-we-finally-know-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft gave Todd Howard an exclusive 1,000-Gamerscore achievement in 2016, and we finally know what it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>There is at least one Xbox achievement that you will never have, and the reason is simple: It was custom made for Bethesda creative chief Todd Howard, and nobody can have it except him. But after years of secrecy, thanks to a discovery by achievement tracker site <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trueachievements.com\/news\/todd-howard-1000-gamerscore-xbox-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TrueAchievements<\/a> (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/bethesda-boss-todd-howard-is-the-only-gamer-on-earth-with-this-1000-point-achievement-and-nearly-4-years-after-xbox-gifted-it-to-him-we-finally-know-what-it-says\/?utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_content=gamesradar&#038;utm_campaign=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GamesRadar<\/a>), we can now at least see what it is.<\/p>\n<p>The story begins in 2016, when Howard was given a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/todd-howard-earns-game-developers-choice-lifetime-achievement-award\/\">Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a> at GDC. During his acceptance speech, which he reminisced about in a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bethesda.net\/en\/article\/4IwKWIj174Cb2QNTTtBAEb\/todd-howard-on-joining-xbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> he put up after Microsoft announced its acquisition of Bethesda in 2020, he jokingly wondered how many achievement points a Lifetime Achievement Award was worth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the ceremony, some good friends from Microsoft congratulated me and said they\u2019d find out,&#8221; Howard wrote. &#8220;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\u2014&apos;Lifetime &#8211; 1000pts.&apos; It still sits in my list when I check, and I smile every time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That game can actually be seen at <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/store\/todd-howard\/BT2RFJWJ5WXB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox.com<\/a>, although of course it&apos;s not available for purchase or download. But the achievement text had remained secret until TrueAchievement&apos;s recent discovery. &#8220;Lifetime,&#8221; as the achievement is known, &#8220;Reflects on the amazing craft of Todd Howard and his team in making worlds as real as any on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was a little baffled when I first looked at the achievement, because it was still showing as &#8220;secret,&#8221; and without the reported description. This, a TrueAchievements rep helpfully explained, is the nature of the site. By default, the site does not show unlocked achievement descriptions to people who haven&apos;t earned them\u2014and since no one but Todd Howard has earned this one, no one but Todd Howard gets to see it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To get around this cheevo secrecy layer, go into your account settings (and yes, you&apos;ll need a TrueAchievements account to do this) and select &#8220;site settings,&#8221; then enable the &#8220;always show unlocked achievement descriptions&#8221; setting. And just like that, there it is.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:23.49%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"TX2xwd2tusibLbr9SKG8SP\" name=\"todd.png\" alt=\"Todd Howard's \"Lifetime\" Xbox achievement - \"Reflects on the amazing craft of Todd Howard and his team in making worlds as real as any on Earth\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/microsoft-gave-todd-howard-an-exclusive-1000-gamerscore-achievement-in-2016-and-we-finally-know-what-it-is.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"451\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Microsoft (via TrueAchievements))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&apos;s a nice gesture, isn&apos;t it? The response to the newly-revealed achievement is quite positive, and naturally\u2014because this is the internet\u2014it has inspired a few users to post <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trueachievements.com\/a443914\/lifetime-achievement?showguides=1#c1877050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guides<\/a> explaining how to unlock the achievement. Some are quite in-depth, such as one from Cpl Kane ZA, which requires facial reconstruction surgery, a time machine, and a possible murder; others, like paramoreRyan&apos;s submission, are more to the point: &#8220;Be Todd Howard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, we can&apos;t all be Todd Howard, but we can acknowledge that if anyone deserves their own custom cheevo, it&apos;s probably him. Howard&apos;s list of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/person\/16249\/todd-howard\/credits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">credits<\/a> is enviable to say the least, beginning with The Terminator: Future Shock in 1995 and running through Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield. He&apos;s currently serving as executive producer on the much-anticipated <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/everything-we-know-about-bethesdas-indiana-jones-game\/\">Indiana Jones and the Great Circle<\/a>, and we also maintain hope that he&apos;s squeezing some time with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/elder-scrolls-6-what-we-know\/\">The Elder Scrolls 6<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/todd-howard-says-fallout-5-is-coming-after-the-elder-scrolls-6-if-we-all-live-that-long\/\">Fallout 5<\/a> in there, too.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/microsoft-gave-todd-howard-an-exclusive-1000-gamerscore-achievement-in-2016-and-we-finally-know-what-it-is\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is at least one Xbox achievement that you will never have, and the reason is simple: It was custom made for Bethesda creative chief Todd Howard, and nobody can have it except him. But after years of secrecy, thanks to a discovery by achievement tracker site TrueAchievements (via GamesRadar), we can now at least see what it is. The story begins in 2016, when Howard was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC. During his acceptance speech, which he reminisced about in a blog post he put up after Microsoft announced its acquisition of Bethesda in 2020, he jokingly wondered how many achievement points a Lifetime Achievement Award was worth. &#8220;At the end of the ceremony, some good friends from Microsoft congratulated me and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microsoft-gave-todd-howard-an-exclusive-1000-gamerscore-achievement-in-2016-and-we-finally-know-what-it-is\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":941781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-941780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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