There’s no real surprise here, but renowned Trophy hunter Hakoom has already hit the new PlayStation Trophy level cap of 999, meaning he’s one of a select few sitting in the Platinum tier. The veteran – who has 2,687 Platinum Trophies at the time of typing, and earns around 1,000 Trophies every month – is no stranger to level caps, having maxed out the previous level limit of 100 for many years.
Hakoom’s achievements have been recognised multiple times by the Guinness Book of World Records, and his PlayStation Network profile makes for some impressive reading. For instance, he’s played 3,616 games to date, and has a completion percentage of 92.61 per cent. That means, he 100 per cent finishes virtually every game he plays. To compare, this author has played 1,579 games and has a completion percentage of 30.78 per cent. Mad!
You can find a little more about what Trophy hunters think of the new format in our interview with Brian English of PS5Trophies fame through the link. Are you impressed by Hakoom’s level? Rub your eyes in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Well *****.... Nothing is gonna stop him it seems
I mean, the guy has dedication to his cause. As much as I like gathering platinum trophies, i'm not sure I'd want "Platinum trophy champion of the world" as my life defining memoire on my gravestone.
This guy is dedicated, and that's coming from a guy who finds the idea of in game acheivements to be pretty superfluous in general. As someone who lived in the Middle East for some time I know PlayStation has a MASSIVE market there. Barely anyone I knew from there owned either an Xbox or a Nintendo system lmao
Speechless. Does he do nothing else?
@nathanSF I mean the guy looks pretty fit based off his pfp
Insane!! Definelty a lot of padding in there but he's got a ton of super hard ones as well. Fight Night, SF4 and 5, Wipeout, Guitar Hero etc. Crazy impressive to be that good at games as a whole regardless of genre.
I remember reading an article years ago where this guys apparently has a day job and family too....how???? Haha
@TheFrenchiestFry I'm not sure what the relevance is lol.
@TheIdleCritic wait crap I replied to the wrong person lol
He's done what Brian was complaining about and bought the same game from different regions.
Mine hasn't even updated yet.
They're possibly going through by name in alphabetical order... a mate whose surname starts with H has updated, another starting with T is yet to update, mine and another mate starting with W are untouched.
@TheFrenchiestFry
true, i was thinking more along the lines of work, education, maybe family commitments. I guess I should google him but I'm not that interested. Good for him though if that's his thing.
@nathanSF there's multiple people behind Hackoom's account.
What does he get for all that then?
That's pretty crazy, average of 1000 a month, I think the most I have earned I a Month was around 100 lol. As much as I do like earning trophies some games are just too much hard work lol, I seem to have a spurt once or twice a year when I like to go for platinum, or if it's pretty easy/enjoyable to get lol.
@Dan_ozzzy189 an article on push square what else could you possibly want haha. 😀
Don't wanna downplay his achievement but I read people suggesting he's got people playing on his account😆. Anyway my only problem with trophies like Brian is easy peasy indie, tell-tale type platinums. If platinums are more valuable now then Sony should rescind those types of plats from everybody's account 😆
Hate to sound negative, but I find that pretty sad. I'd get it if he were disabled and had nothing better to do in his life, but such an extreme can't be healthy. I remember in his interview acting like he has a healthy social life, but I find that hard to believe.
But hopefully I'm wrong and this makes him genuinely happy, more than all other activities ever could.
@Grindagger Fair enough, though, personally, I’d rather have that than “average guy who wasn’t the best at anything”.
@TheArt you take that back! I'd be left with, like, 2-3 platinum trophies.
Wow I’ve only got 29 platinum level 356 working on my 30th before PS5 but I consider 29 to be quite good considering I only really started getting platinums in 2019.
@TheArt there's plenty of evidence there's multiple people playing on his account, an instant one that springs to mind is when he played 3 games at the same time (dark void, aliens vs predator, Dragon age) and got multiple trophies from those 3 games within a couple of minutes.
@naruball I'm not one to scoff at how someone chooses to live their life (now to a lesser extent, after finding out that there are multiple people on his account). You do you and all that jazz, but I play games, have a job, have a wife who I need to pay attention to (lol), exercise, and have to take care of everyday chores. I don't even have an active social life. Plus I need to remember to sleep well. If I were to neglect one of those things, life would be a lot less healthier. I have no time for anything else. I find this particular lifestyle choice odd and hard to fathom, but he's achieved something, so whatever. Good on him. It's just... priorities...
@naruball I'd still have 8 plats. Infamous, Dishonored, GTA San Andreas, Far Cry 4, Deus Ex MD, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4 & Fallout 4.
@NDL08 Thought as much 😆
Hey guys, the article name is a bit misleading, because the level 1-999 shows your position in comparison to other players globally, i.e. level 300 means that your total value of trophies is higher than 29.9% of all players, so naturally since day 1 someone is given level 15 while someone else gets level 999.
he must be stuck in the toilet for destroying his owns eyes. I mean look at his eyes, really? is that your only goal of life?
Maybe he should put just 1/100th of the effort into abit of exercise
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L I'm pretty sure he used to, not sure if he still does, let people pay him to unlock trophies on their accounts (maybe just VNs like doing all the Root Letter stacks).
Also, people don't really talk about it but there's game sharing going on at the top of the leaderboards and there may or may not be money changing hands for that sharing. I know Hakoom at least used to rent out games, but I don't know if that was only physical copies (i.e. to people he could get those copies back from).
See?
Knew this would happen, as stated under another article.
Well the guy must be rich cause i see him have multiple regions for the same game. Also he a no lifer to spend time and money just playing games all day and he not even a streamer.
I have 2 platinum trophies 2!!jesus this bloke must do little else! 😂
Yea I'm a huge trophy hunter and idk how this guy stays on top like this. I guess stacking alot of easy games helps, but I can't play to many of those before im burnt out and have to go back to something decent.
@DiabloSSJ Very interesting if it's confirmed. Excuse me, but do you have a good source for what you wrote? If so, please share it.
Back in the ps3 era your could easily download someone else save. Online And log in to that save. And you will get the platinum under 2 seconds. That why I gave up on trophy 🏆. Since it ain't a fair game at all.
The amount of jealousy here is staggering.
@NDL08 I remember seeing a lot of screencaps about his activity and trophy rates. I mean it sort of makes sense that one of the most famous trophy hunters would receive scrutiny. From what I remember there's no question that his stats are genuine in the sense that he's actually earning the trophies and not exploiting the system (e.g. like the old "importing" a save trick), but there's quite a bit of evidence that he's not the only person playing on that account. If I recall correctly someone even did the math on a perfect play-through for some of his newly released games and it was impossible to obtain the trophies in different games in that short of time, suggesting that multiple people were playing different games under the same account. All that said, if it's really people cranking out all those trophies via legitimate means (i.e. really playing the games and unlocking the trophies properly) I still think it's impressive, insofar as achievements/trophies are impressive. Plus most of what I mention above is just what I remember from discussions elsewhere, so obviously take it all with a grain of salt.
If you think he did all that your an idiot. I know people that pay people and get paid to get Plats for people and buy Plats for status in Social Media gaming world.
How do you find out how many games you've played to date? Just scroll through the trophy list?
@mctaboo "jealousy"
Hahaha. Good one. First of all, I think you mean envy. Second, why would I want something I find sad?
First of all, Why you thought I was talking about you? Are jealous of him!? I guess you outed yourself.. and that's real sad.
Second, it's jealousy not envy.. look it up and learn.
Finally, I don't really care about trophies myself but I don't belittle people who enjoys getting them.. Just like some people who thinks people who enjoy video games are sad people.. Just live and let live.. But ultimately Haters Gonna Hate.
@mctaboo you're unintentionally hilarious. Keep it up.
That must be a lot of money spent on games, especially on bad or short ones.
Even if he paid £1 per game. You are looking at £2,687 minimum. (2687 platinums)
@naruball Typical
who cares about hakoom... ever wondered how he has so many multi region platinums?... well he is a renound cheater, by way of account sharing with ppl worldwide in exchange for money therefore those world record breaking trophies he has on his psn account are not his own work... they are the work of a collective group... hakoom probably has never platinumed one game by himself, in my opinion hes a fake gamer & should be banned for making money through sharing his account...
hes a renound cheat... he account shares & gets money from the suckers around the world to plat games for him... fact
think sony made & presented a one of a kind real platinum trophy just for this saddo a few years back... think hes forgotten to tell them he hacks, cheats & account shares with multiple ppl worldwide not only breaking sonys own service policy of account sharing (2 ppl or a household family) but hes actually making money & getting world records from being a cheater off of sonys own back... they deserved to lose out to microsoft on the 7.8bil capture of zenithmax & their studios id software/bethesda...
@NDL08
isn''t that called cheating?
When I was level 16 and he was 100, it was impressive. Now I'm almost level 300, and 999 doesn't seem that impressive. I'm almost 1/3 there.
Congratulations! Good for you
I dunno, I'm a bit of a trophy hunter, but I guess I do it a bit differently. I only plat games I consider "good" and I'll never touch shovelware. If even one Ratalaika game or Hannah Montanna game wound up in my trophy history, I'd probably ditch my account and start over. Because even though you can hide games, I'd always know what I did every time I scrolled past it...
More impressed by one Wipeout HD plat than the entire trophy history of some of these lvl 600+ people with 4 separate My Name is Mayo lists. It's gross. Have a few lvl 999 people on my friends list and they all fall into this category. Had one of em offer to earn me 25 plats for 20 bucks... Getting ridiculous.
@naruball....... Well he has multiple records in the Guiness World Book of records so there's that....... No matter how living lavida loca your life maybe but can you say you have records in the G.W.B.R..... I bet you can't........... Why can't we do unto others what we would to be done onto ourselves... Why look down on one person's lifestyle or life choices or the things they like to spend their time on like yours are the best in the universe... We are all trying to find our way on this little big blue planet of ours.......... All the world needs is love and yet everywhere you turn its nothing but hate.......... It doesn't matter if I use my time to make a billion dollars or discover the next cure of aids as its no better that what this guy's chosen to use his time on doing......
As a gamer I know I probably won't even get close to this guy's level even if I quit my job and gamed the whole day and night....... For him to put in those hours it must have brought him joy.
Oh by the way, your high horse stinks, your should give it wash...........
Stop looking down on other people..........
@TheIdleCritic...... You guys in this comments section do know that in 2020 gaming is also a paying career job right..... Like we are not in the 80's or early naughtiest when gaming was only mostly a hobby, there is gaming journalism (like push square), there is paid multi-player online gaming, there is now stream gaming which is making people millionaire s as we speak and finally we have Esports....... So maybe this guy's jobs is one's this I mentioned which will most likely give home enough time to actually spend time gaming and getting 1000 trophies per month......... It's actually surprising that most gamers are surprised as to how he can achieve this while having a job........ So it's surprising when you have the comment "oh I could not do this cailuse I have a job or have to work" or other other excuses being branded about.... We gamers are really stranger bunch indeed......
@mctaboo........ Dude tell me about it.... The amount of Salt in these comments is unbelievable.......
@BrettAwesome....... So why do people in this comments acting like it's not achievable and yet when someone does it then it's looked down own and people talking about the guy having a sad life.....
I mean can you tell the poeple on here how you achieved your 399 trophies........
It's like some people were thinking that they were hard core with the numbers of hour they put in games and this guy's come along and puts them to shame and they become jealous and hate on the guy....
@GREGORIAN I resent that. I never expressed hate or jealously, just bemusement that he could have achieved this.
Your comment has a fair point though.
But I don't think it's unreasonable to forgive an adult (me) who, when starting careers and work, grew up in a world where handing out CVs and filling out applications didn't include ones for playing/streaming games on the internet for donations and sponsorship.
Your point is valid, and if that's true in regards to Hakoom, then fair enough. More power to him.
Sometimes I just forget that's a whole thing now.
@GREGORIAN Couldn't agree with you more.. Unfortunately those people are tormented souls and they enjoy spreading hate for the sake of it.
If it can be proven that multiple people were playing on his account he should have the records removed from him. Surely the timestamps would be proof enough.
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