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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EtaPosted:

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

IntPosted:

I remember watching some of his vids ages ago.

TippurPosted:

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...


It doesn't always mean you have a flashed Xbox
He has multiple consoles from different regions

If you watched the Launch event you would know :)

destroyer89Posted:

HOW SAD IS THIS GUY!!! 953,000 gamer score all legit he needs to get out side and smell fresh air

BigRedMachinePosted:

Wow 953,000 that's amazing, mines only like 3500 :p Great award for a great achievement.

TomorrowLandPosted:

I've been watching this guy for some time and he really is great. He completely deserved this!

gowuserPosted:

xSTaTiCBLuEx How has he played non US games? Do they reward like 10k G each? And the only mobile gaming app that rewards any gamerscore at all is Wordament as far as I know and overall you can get like 30G from that


You do realize that you can play a game from any region as long as you own a console from that region? Plus almost all Windows Phones games have 200 Gamerscore.

TomorrowLandPosted:

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...
You can legally/safely buy non-region locked games on Ebay...

TomorrowLandPosted:

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TTgUNLIMITED If the player got this legit like I assume he did otherwise Microsoft wouldn't have given this him then it's good to see Microsoft giving back to the community who do special things that go unseen. I believe this user also has a YouTube channel that I seen a while back if I remember correctly.


Giving back to the community? This is the equivalent of you giving a homeless guy a penny or less.



Uh no, this would be the equivalent of giving a homeless man nearly $2400, taking into account that Xbox live exists 10 years from now. Or $3600 if it lasts for 15 years. Like it or not them handing that out is a big deal, its a big show of faith in their community and at the same time a stab at Sony for not having done anything like that as to this date.


a stab at sony who gave everyone free psn through the whole ps3 era lol


Yeah with the AMAZING psn servers lol
The same servers that went down for like 3 months? Haha, yeah.

TomorrowLandPosted:

xSTaTiCBLuEx How has he played non US games? Do they reward like 10k G each? And the only mobile gaming app that rewards any gamerscore at all is Wordament as far as I know and overall you can get like 30G from that
If you check out his profile, and achievements, you can see that he's maxed out every foreign game. There's German games, Japanese games, the lot!


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