Karooo Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Yeah, you read that right. 300,000 players. A job listing issued by Microsoft's says exactly that, indicating that the game will be for the 360 and that it will be in "real-time". The job is specifically looking for somebody who is "an experienced server developer to help develop our server architecture. We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data". The successful applicant and their team will be responsible for "building a backend capable of hosting a 300,000 player game in real-time with real money on the line (anti-cheating, etc)", along with constructing a new "gameplay scheduler" for Xbox Live, which sounds like it would allow players to formally organise playing sessions for this game (and others as well?). What title could possibly require 300,000 players? Or even hope to attract that many? Hrm. Hmm. How about that fancy Halo project? LINK aaah the wonders of competition, inb4 hypocrites who say MAG will lag but this is awesome because its on the xbwax 360. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shantz Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 If the game has a name like "Hit Steve Ballmer as hard as you can", you can be sure like hell it would attract a lot more than 300,000 easily... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chupchap Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 300,000 people at a time? What is that Mahabharat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftrunner Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Its not 300k in the same game. Its just 300k playing the same game. And I dont see why thats a big deal. Two years after release about 200k people are playing Halo 3 at any given time. More for CoD probably. Popular games have a huge online following. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHitman Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 I'm guessing it's some card game like Poker..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_j_snyder2 Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Might be Gears of War but more possibility of CoD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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