Microsoft awards man with highest Gamerscore

[Corgi]

I'm so jealous of this guy

You may think your Xbox Live Gamerscore is high among your circle of Xbox 360 and Xbox One friends, but the man who can truly say his score is higher than anyone else got a big surprise as part of Microsoft' New York City launch of the Xbox One Thursday night.

Ray Cox IV, who goes by the Xbox Live Gamertag "Stallion83", currently holds the world record (confirmed by the Guinness company) for the highest Xbox Live Gamerscore. His goal is to reach the 1 million mark and as of Sunday, his Gamerscore on Xbox Live is now over 953,000. He has achieved such a huge score in part by playing Xbox 360 games that were not released for the U.S. market, along with Xbox Live scores that came from mobile games.

The final results impressed Microsoft so much, they invited Cox to attend the company's big Times Square launch event for the Xbox One this week. The Spike TV Xbox One launch show had Cox on camera talking with Microsoft's Xbox Live director of programming Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb about his accomplishment.

Hryb then surprised Cox with two gifts during the broadcast. One of the gifts was a rare white Xbox One launch team console. The other gift is something Microsoft has never given anyone else. Hryb handed Cox a box that inside contained the first ever lifetime Xbox Live Gold membership.

Cox was clearly in shock to be presented with such a unique item and later posted an image of the lifetime membership card on his Twitter feed, saying it was the "best gift ever" from the Microsoft Xbox team. By the way, another statement on his Facebook page claims that the card itself is 24k gold.

And here's a picture of the 24k gold card

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[Joon]

Cash that baby in, you might get a million.

 

[Trollasaur]

I'm so jealous of this guy

And here's a picture of the 24k gold card

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lol xbox one

 

[Corgi]

lol xbox one

lol don't start a flame war in my thread.

 

[RoguePatriot]

that's ****ing awesome.

 

[gullagullagulla]

Huh. So for once, Gamerscore was good for something besides e-boners!

 

[Aya San]

They should award him a life too, he would need that

 

[FreakensteinAG]

How many games...did it take...to get a score that....high...I need an aspirin.

 

[Meee]

F**king Badass, Wonder how many games this dude played.

Lame Gamertag tho

 

[Strawberry]

holy shit....i get headaches from playing games more than 6 hours, which happends when i used to play zombies 10 hour gaming sessions, howdoes this guy survive xD

 

[Οdin]

lol don't start a flame war in my thread.

Ikr... people these days. :|

PS4>X1

 

[Corgi]

They should award him a life too, he would need that

They can't, since it was already claimed by you.

Ikr... people these days. :|

PS4>X1

Love you, Serry~

 

[FreakensteinAG]

They can't, since it was already claimed by you.


Love you, Serry~

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I imagine the 993,000 gamerscore had to have been covered by at least several thousand games if they each had 4,000 to gain.

 

[-Punk-]

Even if it's Xbox , that lucky bastard , Fuyukai Desu !.

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[Penguin]

Damn. That guy needs new eyes.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

Damn that's crazy.

The gold card looks cool though.​

 

[Corgi]

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I imagine the 993,000 gamerscore had to have been covered by at least several thousand games if they each had 4,000 to gain.

Xbox games have 1000 gamerscore each. DLC usually adds more. Xbox Arcade games have 400 to gain. DLC usually adds more as well. So it's safe to say he's bought and played over 900 games.

 

[MinatoTheYellowFlash]

Who cares? Microsoft is @ss.

 

[Corgi]

Who cares? Microsoft is @ss.

So is everything you'll ever like ever c:

 

[Blunt]

Congratulations, he just wasted half his life, any chance of social activity with real human beings outside of the game and so on for a membership to live and an Xbox.

But whatever, if he likes playing Xbox, than good for him.