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Want all achievements in Left 4 Dead? Buy them!
3:43 PM on 12.01.2008, Jim Sterling 47 comments

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Yes, that's right, someone is offering their achievement whoring services on eBay. Lucky patrons of this amazing deal will get to pay a total stranger to play games instead of them doing all that hard work. What a bargain!

eBay seller "gamertagz" is offering the full 1000 gamerpoints in Left 4 Dead, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and The Orange Box. You will of course have to give this total stranger access to your Gamertag and Windows Live ID. He will then unlock all achievements within an hour, he claims.

I also love the disclaimer: "Again you are simply paying for my time anything that happens during that time is coincidental." That just sounds sinister. Like he's going to mug, rape and kill some old lady but you'll be responsible because you're paying him to do it. Or something.

The sad thing is, someone has actually placed a bid on the Left 4 Dead one. Somebody out there is willing to pay cash, however small the amount, so that a guy on the Internet can play videogames for them. This is the world we live in.


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Roryzilla's Avatar
Roryzilla at 12/01/2008 15:43
Collective sighs.
KratosX's Avatar
KratosX at 12/01/2008 15:45
wow... just...wow
mr moustache's Avatar
mr moustache at 12/01/2008 15:45
ooohoohooh
and these are the hands we're givin
ooohoohooh
Ninja In Distress's Avatar
Ninja In Distress at 12/01/2008 15:47
I'm not going to sit here and say I haven't farmed achievements. I think some achievements are just stupid(like splatter with Mongoose which has a 0.00001% chance of ever happening due to speed/health), so I farmed a few of those achievements to get my 1000/1000 for Halo 3. Hell, I farmed for half the achievements for Pyro/Heavy to get their new weapons quick. But there has to be a line. Actually paying money for someone to play the game for you...thats reallly fucking sad.
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nicojay at 12/01/2008 15:48
Well that's that taken care of. Now I just need to pay someone to service my girlfriend.
austenw's Avatar
austenw at 12/01/2008 15:48
This sounds like gamer prostitution to me. It's just... dirty.
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Shin Oni at 12/01/2008 15:48
I LAWL at this.. I still do.

I don't understand why you'd want to do this for many reasons. Besides, you can't get all the achievements in under an hour. Can't do that alone with the orange box.

shady, ebay shady.
ZServ's Avatar
ZServ at 12/01/2008 15:53
He'll probably just use gamesaves, meaning your gamertag'll be banned on the next wave.
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Funky Goodness at 12/01/2008 15:54
Not like it's much different from the WoWfags.
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njsykora at 12/01/2008 15:54
Getting the 1000 is impossible in an hour. For starters completing all 4 campaigns on Expert will take at least 4 hours.
Face's Avatar
Face at 12/01/2008 15:54
lol Windows live.
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 12/01/2008 15:55
Wow that's so lame.
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SetoChaos at 12/01/2008 15:56
Gamesavers SUCK! I bet that they are using external tools to unlock the achievement, or at least some glitch. They ruin the achievement system. I'm am achievement whore and I wish these idiots would just stop. This has been happening for a while, just before it wasn't recent games.
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RAB at 12/01/2008 15:58
mugging raping and killing old ladys?

who does this guy think he is, CHAD?
Loogibot's Avatar
Loogibot at 12/01/2008 15:58
I swore I heard a wooshing sound when I read this. Possibly the morality and logic escaping the idiot's head. Or maybe the collective facepalm's from people reading this.
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Wootex at 12/01/2008 16:02
I enjoy the way the auction has a $4.00 shipping cost.
OrangeMango's Avatar
OrangeMango at 12/01/2008 16:09
Would you follow a convicted rapist into a dark alley? I hope not.
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eternalplayer2345 at 12/01/2008 16:10
I hope they both get achievement mono
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ArrestedDeveloper at 12/01/2008 16:12
This is shadier than an oak tree at high noon.
Xhumation's Avatar
Xhumation at 12/01/2008 16:12
if your too lazy to actually play the games you own and are willing to pay a guy to unlock something as abstract as archievement point.

Please proceed to stop gaming altogether!
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pezking6983 at 12/01/2008 16:14
Yeah he is definitely game saving and will get you banned from XBL so I suggest not bidding on that shit.
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BahamutZero at 12/01/2008 16:24
thanks for promoting my service Jim, the check is in the mail. check out my other auctions.

- I will urinate for you in situations where bathrooms are unavailable

- I will satisfy your wife and/or girlfriend for a nominal fee

- I will go skydiving and report back how fun it was for under $2000
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 12/01/2008 16:25
Anybody stupid enough to fall for this is going to get exactly what they deserve.
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Dexter345 at 12/01/2008 17:24
The funny thing is, he's going to cheat to get all of the Achievements (only way you could do it in an hour), so if Microsoft gets wind of this, they'll just erase the Achievements and label the Gamertag as a cheater anyway.
Ascythopicism's Avatar
Ascythopicism at 12/01/2008 17:38
My gut tells me that somewhere in the contract we all must agree to before joining LIVE it mentions something about "one gamertag per person."
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MechaMonkey at 12/01/2008 17:44
If anyone is ever forced to sleep with Natalie Portman, fear not. For a nominal fee, I will be happy to do it for you. You can say it was you, and no one will ever be the wiser.
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Solgrim at 12/01/2008 18:18
No thanks. I dont want my account banned, because a guy hacked the achievments.
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prawn at 12/01/2008 18:44
Sad story :(
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TrailerParkJesus at 12/01/2008 18:53
Yeah this is pretty much grounds for MS to wipe clean your achievement points and get branded as a cheater. So go for it.
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Nik565 at 12/01/2008 19:49
I love getting achievements and all that, but damn. All the fun in achievements is earning them. Getting bragging rights is what you'd call an "added perk". I don't understand why someone would want to actually pay someone for this.
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Audiohol 4m33s at 12/01/2008 20:04
Looks like there are smart people in the world after all. I just checked the bidding page about 5 minutes before it closed and no one was stupid enough to place a single bid.
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mix at 12/01/2008 20:12
Sweet, the things people will do.
Dan CiTi's Avatar
Dan CiTi at 12/01/2008 20:26
Gamerscore is all that matters

@TrailerParkJesus
If this guy cheats to do so, then yes.
Sam Spectre's Avatar
Sam Spectre at 12/01/2008 20:53
This isn't news. People have been paying other people to play WoW for them for ages now.
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MissHinasaki at 12/01/2008 21:12
O_O I've played the game for only about 2 hours and I already have half the achievements. And I don't even own the game!

Also, is there a way to check and see the total amount of zombies you have killed?
TewDee's Avatar
TewDee at 12/01/2008 21:16
Anyone who pays for this should feel sad and ashamed, and turn in their gaming balls into the nearest vendor.
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Edarios at 12/01/2008 22:41
nothing different than paying people to level your WoW characters.
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MotoRobo at 12/01/2008 23:12
That situation doesn't make the world sad. Consider that achievements matter to anyone. I've never given a shit and wondered at first why they were in games (then found out M$ required them). I realize some folks collect them but how is that fun? It's meticulous like work for the sake of...a badge saying you got # of y? It's so worthless.
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chronoswing at 12/02/2008 00:56
@MotoRobo

Achievements add replay value to games that otherwise have none. They keep you playing the game over and over again to get that next achievement until you've completed them all. It's a way to get your money's worth especially on short 6 hour games but will probably take you a week to get all the achievements in.
TheToiletDuck's Avatar
TheToiletDuck at 12/02/2008 04:53
When you break it down it's not much different to SingStirling. Except for the the whole charity thing.
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Sharpless at 12/02/2008 13:30
The achievements in this game are not that hard. This is incredibly stupid.
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sukk1e at 01/28/2009 10:26
@grafkhun at 12/01/2008 15:41:

its easy with binding sv_cheats 1 and sv_cheats 0.
Beginning of dead air, take a pipe bomb, go stand on top of the bars. turn on sv cheats 1, make a zombie spawn command. and let like 300/400 zombies spawn. You turn off sv_cheats so achievements will count. And you throw the pipebomb.

But still getting all the achievements is not possible since lamb 2 slaughter achievement has bug and wont display on steam profile:P
jbcrazey's Avatar
jbcrazey at 01/28/2009 13:06
haha not everybody is poor an uses a computer for l4d and yur retarded who doesnt know about that thinking yur all smart explaining wat everybody knows
jbcrazey's Avatar
jbcrazey at 01/28/2009 13:08
ratard no one uses computers for games unless yur poor and who doesnt know that thinking yur all smart
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