Microsoft Shooting For A 300,000 Player Online Game?

By Luke Plunkett

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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 a Halo game?

Microsoft trying to develop 300,000 player online game [Develop]

sounds very interesting.

Imagine waiting in the lobby for people to join, or a match to load... lmfao

Press F to Ready Up!!!!!!!

are they wanting the MMO from hell? They better break this into servers. Even then it will probably lag.

Maybe World of Warcraft servers with a maximum of 300,000 players each? :D

ya sounds like an MMO... they bringing that halo mmo back to life I wonder...

Microsoft Announcement: "Players will now play for MONEY!!!!!"

.... What a great message for all the teenagers playing Halo 3 online LMAO!!!!

I think you guys are interpreting this wrong.

Given that there's real money on the line, it's probably more akin to the 1 vs. 100 thing they're doing, rather than something like an online FPS.

A Halo MMO sounds cool. But I want to see a more diverse MMO which is based on real life and has realistic elements in it, like war, economy, exploration, and interaction. Also, it would need to be first person for me to take interest in it. I don't know why no one has made a first person combat based MMO.