Will arena achievements become hidden?

  • Not sure how it works on xbox in a case like this. Would this actually be a 1st for xbox? In world of warcraft we would consider arena achievements to be feats of strength once the content is removed and no longer obtainable. So in SoT will these now be hidden achievements? Basically my old goal in sea of thieves before they ramped up content additions was to 100% the game. I only had a few of the more tedious ones to knock out. Then they added arena and as someone who wasnt a huge fan of PvP and didnt really care for arena the goal of 100% became out of reach. That was the first step in convincing me to finally leave the game. The 2nd was adding seasons and having to basically regrind the same stuff. I kinda saw it as devaluing the achievements I grinded before since you just copy and pasted the achievements into a seasonal achievement progress system. While I do think progressing through the season has an interesting feeling of progression the game was lacking before I had also burnt myself out on all the things involved.

    Basically my question is would 100%ing the game be achievable again now that arena achievements will be gone?

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  • @magus104 Well technically yes, but actually no.

    I'm certain Arena Achievments will either

    A. Be still visible, but will no longer contribute to game completion.

    B. Be removed from the acheivement list, but players who earned them will be compensated with titles or other cosmetics.

    However, new achievments will still show up as more things are added to the game. Which means you'll never be able to totally complete the game until it dies or a new version is made.

  • @magus104 Ahoy matey!

    I don't believe this is the first time Xbox would remove/hide unobtainable achievements... I think Halo has done it in the past.

    Our Live Operations team are currently investigating our options regarding achievements linked to The Arena. As soon as we have a final plan, we'll update the Key Questions part of the Saying Goodbye to The Arena article.

  • @magus104 What will most likely happen is the achievements will be changed with new requirements to unlock them. Destiny had to do that on several achievements when they removed content and the SoT team is investigating the possibility of that. They have already altered several base achievements in the game, but that was simple as they only lowered the threshold to unlock it instead of completely changing them.

    If they can't do that, then they will just become unobtainable achievements like any other game that has had a server shut down on multiplayer (see Madden et al). They won't be hidden, you just won't be able to unlock them unless Rare changes the conditions to do so.

  • @el-spaniardchi The second thing you list will definitely not happen, Microsoft has never removed achievements. They will either change them or let them become unobtainable.

  • @dlchief58 Ah, i didn't know that. Thanks for the info mate!

  • @musicmee I think the best solution would be to show it for the people who have the achievements, and hide it for everyone else if possible

  • @baronbrr Yeah same here. I am hoping that Xbox/Microsoft has some kind of solution here... that could work well so that players can at least achieve 100% completion of possible achivements.

  • Been in 10 Arena matches, and not one...can I get a crew to join me in the hot tub....
    I need that achievement :p

    Let hope they alter the requirements.

  • @baronbrr sagte in Will arena achievements become hidden?:

    @musicmee I think the best solution would be to show it for the people who have the achievements, and hide it for everyone else if possible

    That won't happen...achievements never got deleted, just changed...
    I guess, they just will be changed...but it also could be, that they're unobtainable after the arena is closed, what's more likely

  • When will arena be closed? Im at 252 cannon ball kills still working on my last one.

  • When will arena be closed? Im at 252 cannon ball kills still working on my last one.

  • @johnhp1 sagte in Will arena achievements become hidden?:

    When will arena be closed? Im at 252 cannon ball kills still working on my last one.

    March 10th

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