Strange eBay auction -- buy a spot in a game, maybe

by Nick Doerr { Aug 16th 2006 at 10:00AM }

Ever wanted to be in a video game and beat the crap out of Buddha, Jesus, Thor, or some other religious figure? Well... you can't, but you can get front row tickets! An interesting auction on eBay is for the upcoming title Battle of the Gods, not yet announced for any particular system, but considering any and all. It's basically a sacrilegious (to some) brawler where you can play as a multitude of dieties. As the auction states, "this game WILL make history, be a part of it!" Why not? It's only over $3000 right now.

Your pretty penny nets you a t-shirt, a 3-d model of you animated by the production staff, a commemorative plaque, first dibs on playing the finished product, first viewable thing in a chosen level (most likely cheering on the mayhem), and two copies of the game signed by the whole staff, with you added to the cover. Truly, it sounds like bunk. The game isn't popping up on Google and if it's not on Google, where is it? Hopefully it's real. Probably not. Still, it's an interesting marketing quirk. If you want to check out the auction and see what goes down, feel free. It's funny, if nothing else. Think it's for real?

Tags: Battle of the Gods, BattleOfTheGods, eBay, Playstation 3, Playstation3, PS3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mrNinya @ Aug 16th 2006 11:44AM

Could be true.
Check out http://www.classifiedproductions.org/ and enter "classified" as the password. Some password, huh?

Ashley Williams @ Aug 17th 2006 9:34PM

I dont know if to laugh or cry that sombody could fall for this scam!! LOL

ndoerr @ Aug 18th 2006 12:58PM

@ mrNinya -- that's actually a really funny site that almost reinforces the idea it's a hoax auction. Take a look under the "Jobs" tab. Programmers - smart. That's not exactly a professional criteria. None of the prerequisites are. I dunno, call me paranoid, but it seems like a massive joke. Ashley Williams is right; I'm laughing and crying.

Dan @ Aug 20th 2006 4:11AM

I know the guys and its for real. The site was password protected because it was for the dev team only. Not for the public. Hence the warning at the opening.

T @ Aug 22nd 2006 3:59PM

It's for real, though nothing I say will convince you of it..and no I'm not working on it, but know thoes who are.

As for ndoerr and "...smart. That's not exactly a professional criteria." well acually it is for a little known company call Microsoft, maybe you've heard of them. They will take samrt people over college grads that are dumber then dirt holding a piece of paper...doesnt seem like bad hiring criteria to me...