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awildcoopixe's avatar
2 years ago
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[Xbox 360] Achievements Not Unlocking From Offline Playthrough

I completed Mass Effect on my xbox 360 and earned the achievements offline. Unfortunately when reconnecting my xbox to the internet I had to re-download my profile. This meant the achievements I unlocked offline on Mass Effect were not there anymore. They are still locked on my xbox account and when I reach the requirements to unlock them they still do not unlock. Xbox have told me to contact the publisher yet when I submitted a ticket to EA it was marked as resolved and no one got in touch with me. I have just been blatantly ignored.

  • Thanks for trying to help, I have recently fixed the issue through trial and error with my account with xbox and on my xbox 360 console. Thank you for being clear on the advice and the process and trying to help and assist me.

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  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    @awildcoopixe Support has no actual visibility into achievements being unlocked. EA has no way to apply an achievement to an account because the console account (Xbox) goes by the data on the save which has nothing to do with the EA account itself. It doesn't matter who the publisher is for the game, this is how consoles work in general.

    As for the case, I had someone take a look to see why it was closed as I do not see any reason which means it wasn't closed by an advisor so you were not blatantly ignored. This could have been the system closing it out for some reason. 

    On the achievements, Being that it is a console and not the EA app, publishers cannot in any way grant those because they are tied to the Xbox account and saved data, not your EA account specifically. As 360 is now quite old, and Microsoft is shutting down a lot of online services, they may not pop for you.

    I did find a few articles relating to this. When you play offline, they should be granted when the console goes back online if everything is stable, a good connection and you earned them.

    Offline achievements not showing

    Problems with Xbox achievements

    Achievements don't unlock while offline

  • I was told to contact the publisher by xbox but I have filed a ticket with xbox as I am now aware it is on their end. I have previously unlocked them but a bug has caused them to make me re-earn them. Unfortunately they do not get granted even if I reach the requirements. I was upset my ticket got closed without a response, I find the website very circular and convoluted. Everything is a multistep process, there is no way to directly contact someone. I appreciate you contacting me regarding this matter however. The xbox services are not the issue as far as i am aware but more of my account not registering the data If EA has no access or say in this matter is there any suggestions on how Ican amend this? Is EA able to reset my game data associated with my profile so I can trigger the achievements again when I reach the requirements?

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    @awildcoopixe Here is the thing with support, and this is mostly true for most game support out there. They cannot alter data in any way. They can help with account issues, technical issues, missing content issues, etc but they don't have the ability to reset data. Now some mobile games can with tools if they have them, but I've been in the games industry for a very long time, and it is one thing that a lot of companies simply do not have the ability to do.

    When it comes to an issue like achievements, posting on the forums doesn't get it resolved as Community Managers are not game developers. We don't fix the games. We can report issues if there are enough players making the same claim, but support would do the same thing. At the moment there are not a lot of players having the same issue.

    If or when an achievement issue is escalated, most of the time the dev team for said game has to reach out to that platform anyway and they also have to look at it.

    When you contact Xbox, you can contact them in two ways. There is a "community" support and their official support. The community support can only advise like other players. They cannot fix issues unless they happen to know the troubleshooting steps that resolve it. So contacting the publisher only works in certain aspects. Achievements is not one of them unless we have more than just one player having that issue.

    Being that it is on 360, in a support environment, it is considered a "one-off issue" unless it is happening to a lot of players at the same time. So if troubleshooting does not resolve it, it is reported as a bug until we have more players reporting it. Players reporting on other sites like Reddit, Steam, GameFAQ etc we cannot use because they aren't posting here.

  • Thanks for trying to help, I have recently fixed the issue through trial and error with my account with xbox and on my xbox 360 console. Thank you for being clear on the advice and the process and trying to help and assist me.

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