Microsoft gives highest Gamerscore holder lifetime Xbox Live Gold

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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.



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CokesPosted:

He probably paid enough for the games he played anyways so Microsoft probably isn't giving too much.

AahPosted:

That's pretty awesome, having to pay for xbl is such a bore

CokesPosted:

Konviicted I've never seen anything higher than 70k which my cousin has... this is so insane. Does he have almost every single achievement you can get for the 360?? And that card is probably worth hundreds alone, and with a lifetime XBL code on it, thousands easily.


He probably does. That is a lot of achievement hunting.

TreyarchedPosted:

burnleyesenihc "He has achieved such a huge score in part by playing Xbox 360 games that were not released for the U.S. market".... if i played games that are not meant for the UK market then i would get console banned for having a flashed xbox... how has he managed to play non-US games legit?? in england if i attempt to play NTSC/NTSC-J region games my xbox wont load them...


Ever thought of getting a NTSC-J console imported from Japan? Thats what he would have done.

xxRider702xxPosted:

Wow. I honestly wish i could be that guy at the moment.

KonviictedPosted:

I've never seen anything higher than 70k which my cousin has... this is so insane. Does he have almost every single achievement you can get for the 360?? And that card is probably worth hundreds alone, and with a lifetime XBL code on it, thousands easily.

I-DA-KINGPosted:

He probably would't be able to but i wonder how much it would go for on ebay if he sold it?

TeKzPosted:

Eta Just shy of 1 million gamerscore... I wonder if he remembers what the sun looks like...


You make fun of him yet, he's in shape and got LIFE TIME xbox live gold... That's a lot of money he saved.

EK6Posted:

JacobyEllsbury He deserves it tbf, yeah people might call him sad but that's dedication to something he loves doing. I watched his videos a few years back, at least he's actually got something worth while off of Microsoft


Amen to that. But people cant make fun of the man he is in healthy weight range and in seems healthy in a life style so yea... good job to that dude.

StonerzardPosted:

He deserves it tbf, yeah people might call him sad but that's dedication to something he loves doing. I watched his videos a few years back, at least he's actually got something worth while off of Microsoft


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