Inspired by the success of games like PUBG, Fortnite, and Apex Legends, a very rich person is looking to buy an island and bring 100 people to it for a real-life game of battle royale.
IGN spotted a listing on the luxury marketplace Hush Hush from an anonymous person who is looking to hire someone to design an arena for a 100-person battle royale game.
Contestants will compete with Airsoft guns, and shots will be detected by touch-sensitive armour. Under the current plan, competition will take place 12 hours per day over three days until only one person remains. Competitors can camp for the night, while food, camping gear, and all equipment will be provided to contestants.
The untitled contest is still in the early stages of planning, so there is no word on yet on how to sign up or other key particulars like a prize for the winner or what island will be used or details on the safety measures and rules to be implemented. Whatever the case, the person who gets hired as gamemaker will get £1,500/day for six weeks to create the event.
"Battle royale games have become incredibly popular over the last few years ago and our customer is a huge fan who wants to make the game a reality in the safest way possible," Hush Hush founder Aaron Harpin said. "If the championship is a success this year, it's something he wants to make an annual event moving forward, which is very exciting!"
IGN reports that the sponsor of the event is an anonymous millionaire; his identity is unknown.
Pretty neat idea. Surprised it's taken this long for a rich dude to copy off HunterXHunter's idea.
Connor Scott
>hunter x hunter lel
Joshua Reyes
>airsoft I sleep call me when crazy niggers start killing each other
Liam Hill
>send your kids to the island or I will rape you >actually I will just rape you anyway
Cooper Nelson
Well if we're splitting hairs the novel Battle Royale predates Greed Island by a couple years (only a couple though) and I'm sure the only reason anyone even had this idea is because the video game genre is so popular, popular enough to justify it now, but I couldn't resist a chance to reference what is hands down the greatest manga of all time.
Hunter Foster
You mean the Battle Royale manga right?
It's definitely got a gore factor to it, could only stomach a few pages.
Still, I always found it interesting how the story of HxH shifted gears into basically different genres/subgenres with each Arc.
Justin Young
inb4 999999 replies thinking it's real killing when it clearly says it's an airsoft game
Camden Jones
>Airsoft guns And you lost me.
Jaxson Long
Source faggot
Tyler Young
Battle Royale had an actual novel before it had a manga, though it did get a manga adaptation very quickly. It was a pretty big hit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(novel)
Jason Hughes
Now we wait for the follow up story about how a bunch of people got stranded on an island with all their money stolen and had to fend off wild dogs to prevent themselves from being eaten... again!
>join the game >hack your armor >shots won't register and you'll be fucking invincible >people will see some absolute madman running at them doing zig-zag patterns, seemingly dodging all their shots before he shoots them down
they will so totally change the gun into a real gun aint it
Zachary Powell
People would still be crazy enough to play it.
Jayden Jackson
>Nothing prevents players from creating death traps >Begin, the Most Dangerous Game >Wooden spike pit falls This is the kind of shit that should be on pay-per-view
Adam Brown
ring ring, America calling
Lincoln Ross
gladiator arenas pre-date any of this shit. it doesn't really matter
thats basically what half of modern sports are especially the violent ones like Hockey and MMA
Nolan Reyes
I remember this episode of Bob's Burgeres too, Bob did nothing wrong.
Caleb Nelson
Someone's getting beaten to death in their sleep the first night and the event called off
Jayden Hall
How the fuck do you get beaten to death in your sleep? I think the first punch would wake you right up.
William Davis
I was just thinking this. There's no way a battle royale could be implemented in real life unless you have security following each individual. Some dude will get pissed, and then try to kill you with blunt, whether it be their first, the airsoft gun or the closest log they can find.
It's a cool and fun irl idea, but I don't ever see it happening.
Pretty sure this already happened once and the winner was 77 - 0.
Aaron Rivera
>yfw Gladiatorial sports make a comeback with cloned animals
Luis Russell
Do you think he'd actually advertise that? You hire some 'consultant' to make it seem legit and to get people to sign up. Once people are actually there and can't leave, then you pull the death game shit.
100 people in only one can leave alive with 50 million dollars.
Ethan Baker
Man, rich people really can do whatever they want, huh?
Lincoln Barnes
>be rich man >dump spoiled brats on island with 20 dollar airsoft guns >leave >the real battle royal is them trying not to starve to death
nah, hardcore Airsoft military Larpers already do this type of shit all the fucking time sometimes even going as far to get shit like actual helicopters to use and those are the main people who will be able to actually afford to go to this thing
Easton Green
>the real battle royal is them trying not to starve to death >and survive the local wildlife of Tigers, Lions, Hippos, Gorillas and Bears, plus an assortment of venomous snakes, spiders and other critters
now it is only a matter of time until the soft and finally the air vanishes from the concept.
isnt it grand to be able to see society degenerate to the point where there will be real people killing each other for the amusement of rich assholes in your lifetime?
Xavier Taylor
>airsoft FIGHT TO THE DEATH DAMN IT
Jordan Anderson
>I always found it interesting how the story of HxH shifted gears into basically different genres/subgenres with each Arc you might have stumbled upon how entertainment keeps itself going when it does not have the desire to tell a story but rather to keep selling a product to an audience. things like popular shounen manga or basically anything operating on the telenovela formula are the original live services of the entertainment industry.
Gabriel Edwards
hey, but at least they can all floss till they drop.
Grayson Green
>Rich Person literally who
Christian Torres
They say his name is Akihiko Kayaba.
Robert Reyes
This is literally already happening in some countries, why are you acting like it would be a new thing.
Connor Miller
Cartels should do this shit, but with real weapons.
Jose Morales
Gladiator fights happened before our time. Also this isn't for amusement of rich people exclusively, because i'll enjoy this shit too.
Zachary Nelson
>isnt it grand to be able to see society degenerate to the point where there will be real people killing each other for the amusement of rich assholes in your lifetime?
Implying it doesn't happen already. I know for sure that rich people pay people to play russian roulette. There are 6 contestant and all of them win a prize (around 100k dollars) even if they die (they make a testament). There are matches like once or twice a year in East Asia generally, rich people from all over the world go there, even some famous ones.
Also in the US some human hunters got together in the middle of innawoods to make a battle royale between them, all of them died.
Jeremiah Johnson
>implying that's a bad thing
Julian Bailey
>Also in the US some human hunters got together in the middle of innawoods to make a battle royale between them, all of them died. Wait, what? Why was there not at least one survivor?
Dylan Sullivan
>Why was there not at least one survivor?
bleeding
Luis Sanders
Is Martin Shkreli organizing this from jail?
David Miller
Do you have a source for this incident? I cannot find anything about this.
Dylan Morgan
Stop reading sensationalist magazines user.
Zachary Gutierrez
Can't find any source for the human hunters, but here you have the source for the Rusian Roullete thing, if you understand spanish or put subtitles
