Job listing suggests Microsoft working on 300K-player game

by Majed Athab on May 30th 2009 5:00AM

A job listing found on both Gamasutra and Microsoft's careers website is seeking out an engineer to work on a "game" that will support up to "300,000 players in real-time." The job ad states that Microsoft is working on "building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways" and that it's "creating a completely new set of web services" for Xbox Live and Xbox.com integration.

It sounds to us like Microsoft is planning to overhaul the Dashboard and Xbox Live service and combine it with an MMO-like system (given the 300K-player support). Or, it could be building a separate virtual world interface like Sony's PlayStation Home. What do you think Microsoft could be working on?

[Via CVG]

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Tags: dashboard, interface, job-listing, microsoft, mmo, rumor, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (60)

TBH I can't see these kind of numbers being implemented well in an arcade shooter.

P.S. 300 000 12 YEAR OLD BRATS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a freakin' joke. We, the internet, really need a Times New Sarcasm.

Its probably WOW.

That would be so awesome.

Or maybe it's SW: The Old Republic. That would be so sweet, especially if it turns out it won't work on a Mac. (I'm too cheap to buy a full copy of Windows and I dunno about putting a pirated version on a shiny new Mac. Bleh.)

i know it might not be possible but imagine your playing GTAIV online and your in liberty City with 299,999 other players, simulated riots here i come.