1 vs. 100 Coming to Xbox Live..., ...from today's E3 coverage. Options

[TravisP]

I dearly hope so. People would go NUTS for the chance to win free points.

I can't see Microsoft offering anything else other than an extension to a user's gold subscription. So you could have the top prize as a ten year subscription extension to Xbox Live Gold which is worth about £400 in retail shops here. I suspect the points system will be more likely though and $1 Million could easily become 100,000 MS Points.

The only way I can see the online experience work is to keep the format whatever that is (players eliminated or money tree) but when somebody decides to walk or lose then the next person can be selected from the remaining players from that game. Basically, do the same contestant selection for the 1 we have here.

I will agree that finding 100 people for one game will not be a problem over there if prizes are offered. I was on Call of Duty 4 last week and at 2pm EST (7pm UK time) there were 120,000 people playing online around the world and I can assure those 120,000 weren't people living in Europe.

[Joe Mello]

I can't see Microsoft offering anything else other than an extension to a user's gold subscription. So you could have the top prize as a ten year subscription extension to Xbox Live Gold which is worth about £400 in retail shops here. I suspect the points system will be more likely though and $1 Million could easily become 100,000 MS Points.

That seems a little unwieldy, especially if there's going to be more than one game going on at once. I could easily see this work in a regular tournament format where the top winner(s) receive something like 1,000 Points, which is still pretty good.

[tpirfan28]

Never happen. I mean, never, EVER happen. Neverminding that a) this is a Microsoft thing designed for Microsoft's own service and b) the Wii doesn't do voice chat at all, Nintendo's got too much of a hard-on about keeping their online community insular. You have to put in at least two codes per person to play Brawl with someone not-random. There is NO WAY that Nintendo would ever let 101 complete strangers actually interact in a free manner with each other. Maybe in a console down the road, if their philosophy changes a LOT, but not on a Wii.

QFT. I love my Wii, but the online play is nothing short of an a**ache. Mario Kart is even a pain when random.

Boy. Microsoft's little XBox online jobby there is nice. And stuff seems reasonably priced, too.

/again, coming from a Wii owner.

[clemon79]

I can't see Microsoft offering anything else other than an extension to a user's gold subscription.

I don't understand why you think that. Or are you saying that this is the only thing they could offer ASIDE FROM points?

(Even then, trust me, they could get other prizes.)

The only way I can see the online experience work is to keep the format whatever that is (players eliminated or money tree) but when somebody decides to walk or lose then the next person can be selected from the remaining players from that game. Basically, do the same contestant selection for the 1 we have here.

I suspect that is exactly what will happen. Your reward for surviving in the Mob will be the opportunity to be selected for the next game.

[Fedya]

I can't see Microsoft offering anything else other than an extension to a user's gold subscription.

I don't understand why you think that. Or are you saying that this is the only thing they could offer ASIDE FROM points?

(Even then, trust me, they could get other prizes.)

The winner receives MS Points; the runner up receives a copy of Microsoft Bob.

(And of course, third place gets two copies of Microsoft Bob....)

[TimK2003]

/The one game show Endemol produced competently

I would not go that far. We've had plenty of complaints about this format from the get-go, most of them involving concepts like "wayyyyyyyyy too slow" and "the One is encouraged to bolt early."

Is it a format that could work over LIVE? Hells yes. But it wasn't necessarily a perfect TV show.

It could be a win/win scenario...If MS has problems executing the live gameplay (slow runtimes, crashes, etc) and one game takes forever to play, then they can bill the game as...

"Gameplay so real, you'll feel like you're on the actual show!"

:-P

[Setsunael]

http://kotaku.com/5242159/1-vs-100-preview-an-mmo-game-show

http://gizmodo.com/5241593/1-vs-100-makes-...from-your-couch

Preview of the Xbox version.