How Much Would You Pay For #1?

How much would you pay to have the most Xbox Live Achievement Points? What if you could bypass all the hard work and just pay to become the #1 in the word? Now you can.

RANCE6, the current World #1 for Achievement Points, is selling off all his hard work to the highest bidder by auctioning his Xbox 360 hard drive, Live Account, and all the game saves on Ebay.

RANCE6 is 29 and lives in Italy where he owns a video game store. He purchased the Xbox 360 at launch, but mostly was interested in playing Japanese titles. Since the Xbox360’s Japanese title offerings were pretty weak at launch, only Ridge Racer interested him. It wasn’t long though before he discovered Achievement Points and the addiction soon took hold.

Being a competitive gamer, RANCE6 started out wanting to be #1 in Italy. He soon expanded his game play to include all Xbox 360 games in all regions (Pal, NTSC and Japanese). In fact, RANCE6 says he learned Japanese just so he could play their games. His Gamescore started to explode and quickly moved up the ranking leaderboards. After a while, he finally obtained the #1 spot in the world after taking down ST TheKing, the former title holder based in Canada.

A typical day for RANCE6 has him playing 10-15 hours. As such,he has put in an estimated 4,350 hours in the past 11 months achieving and holding the World #1 spot. It’s not uncommon for him to achieve all 1000 points for a game in a single day, and then move on to the next. With the ability to generate points like that, it’s no wonder his Gamescore is a few points shy of 81,000.

All good things must come to and end though. RANCE6 has confessed to being a hard core Playstation gamer in his Ebay ad. He has an Xbox 360 only to pass the time before the Playstation 3 launch. So now all his hard work and #1 World ranking can be yours if you have deep pockets. RANCE6 is retiring and is auctioning off his hard drive and Gamertag on eBay, which has a current price of $6,000 USD at the time of this article. All the recognition, glory and attention can be yours if you want it, he doesn’t take credit cards though so bring cash.

The auction ends Oct-11-06 09:23:48 PDT and 2old2play will be keeping track of the story to see if we can get a word from the winning bidder. More then anything I think this auction begs the questions of why. Why spend $6000+ dollars to have a gamer tag with points that are meaningless? Even in MMORPG's auctions of characters or in game gold will at least net you some enjoyment of those items in game. What could Achievements possible net you other then bragging rights?

Check Out the Auction Here

Check Out His Live Profile Here

Thanks for the info Banjo