Kwari = Latin for "Pay up, sucka"

OME6A · 08-30-2007

A new FPS is in development for presumably PC at this time. However, the concept behind it is interesting if not genius, and warrants some serious discussion.

From Kotaku:

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Take the addictive and highly competitive nature of an online FPS and then add in a system where you get money for kills. That's the concept behind Kwari, a shooter being developed by a company of the same name.

Basically, to play you open an account and add some funds. Then during a match, every time you hit another player money is taken from their account and put into yours, and vice versa.

The matches are based off of skill levels and stakes can range from a penny to a dollar a hit. For even more fun, self-inflicted damage (falling, blowing yourself up) is also subtracted from your account and added to a global jackpot pool that doles out prizes daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly, with projected dollar amounts for the quarterly pot in the millions.

Now that is an interesting concept. Being a shooter fan, I can only imagine how intensely this dynamic would effect the level of competition.

Sure, the obvious is that camping would go through the roof. Hell, if you've ever played gamebattles before then I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I've been in 3 hour battles, and that wasn't for anything other than a number on a website.

But getting paid per frag, that's worth considering.

What do you guys think? Something you'd like to see on the 360?

BoyEngland · 08-31-2007

They should have done this in a Hitman game, it would have gone with the name of the game much better and really added realism.

The game sounds good, but I cant see many people playing it. People will still glitch, and competition would be beyond belief. Then theres the glitchers who would get rich instantly, etc.

I would rather play for something like MS points (or an equivelent) where you get say a monthly "allowance" of x-MS points (or equivelant) and once you blow them you can't play until next month. Then you should have the option to play with the big boys and lose/win real money.

The game sounds really interesting, but I expect the developer will think more about this pay out system, then the actual gameplay will be really crappy.

jwm2 · 10-16-2007

Sounds interesting, although there will be alot of cheaters if any glitches are found. It would really suck to have real money taken from you because some other guy found a loophole that you didn't know about.