1:30AM Mike Fahey | Now here is one terrifying concept. 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.
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10:30AM Logan Booker | Oh Kwari, where did you go wrong? Was it the unpronounceable name? The awful graphics? The boring gameplay? One of these, all of these – it doesn’t matter now. The Micro Forte-developed online title, which tried to tempt players with its “cash for kills” design, is no more. Owner Kwari Limited has gone into receivership, which we can only assume means Kwari didn’t do so well.
Can we stop with the woeful game ideas based around even crappier business models? It really doesn’t help the local industry.
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