{"id":89738,"date":"2026-09-18T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89738"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:36:52","slug":"xbox-aware-of-phantom-achievement-glitch-thats-robbing-players-of-100-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89738","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Aware of &#8216;Phantom Achievement&#8217; Glitch That&#8217;s Robbing Players of 100% Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/tech\/xbox-series-x\">Xbox<\/a> fans report being blocked from 100% completion in various games due to so-called &#8220;phantom achievements&#8221; \u2014 despite having collected the full 1,000 Gamerscore.<\/p>\n<p>A bug is currently showing progress in some Xbox games capped below 100%, even when all visible achievements have been collected. For those who grind out achievements or who care about their count of games at 100% completion, this is an annoying glitch \u2014 especially as Xbox is believed to be working on an equivalent to PlayStation&#8217;s Platinum trophy feature in future.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the cause of the issue appears to have already been tracked down, and Xbox is aware of the problem. Writing on X\/Twitter, Xbox fan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarkIxion\/status\/2100638706486976923\">DarkIxion<\/a> noted that the bugged games all seemed to be those with time-limited 0 Gamerscore challenges.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-value=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>As a day one Xbox One purchaser, I remember the console&#8217;s short-lived timed challenges, which provided extra achievements beyond each game&#8217;s base list. Dead Rising 3, Titanfall, and Call of Duty: Ghosts had them, as did several non-gaming apps such as Netflix and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the requirements for these limited-time objectives would unlock exclusive bonus achievements \u2014 and while they provided 0 Gamerscore, they could also unlock extra game artwork or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox fans report being blocked from 100% completion in various games due to so-called &#8220;phantom achievements&#8221; \u2014 despite having collected the full 1,000 Gamerscore. A bug is currently showing progress in some Xbox games capped below 100%, even when all visible achievements have been collected. For those who grind out achievements or who care about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":89740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89742,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89738\/revisions\/89742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}