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In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
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Shadowspawn
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 		In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
Hate to sound so jealous, but I actually am, so whatever... Wink

It was nice that the video was more detailed than what the MTV show revealed (or so I have heard, I have to watch it on TiVo tonight), so we were kinda "rewarded" compared to the general public. But today, everyone I know has already watched the video and had NOTHING to do with OurColony, so we really just got it a little sooner than others...big deal.

THX on the other hand, got a free trip to LA and got to party it up at the MTV unveiling...that is a HUGE reward, that NOBODY else will get just hours later.

I'm not saying he did not earn it, he definitely did, that is not my point. My point is that there were a lot of us who put a ton of time and effort into this and basically got close to nothing out of it.

I was really hoping for something bigger...for example, have one theater in several major cities where they would have a simulcast and a party (MS did simulcasts in theaters for other events for years, I've even been to one myself - they usually do them online now instead). The final challenge solution could have pointed us to where those theaters were and soma "password" to get into the party at 8:30. THAT would have been a great reward and really brought the colony together to meet each other and celebrate our hard work. I would have driven a couple of hours to go to something like that. But this? This is a big letdown...
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 		Re: In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
Shadowspawn wrote:
Hate to sound so jealous, but I actually am, so whatever... Wink

It was nice that the video was more detailed than what the MTV show revealed (or so I have heard, I have to watch it on TiVo tonight), so we were kinda "rewarded" compared to the general public. But today, everyone I know has already watched the video and had NOTHING to do with OurColony, so we really just got it a little sooner than others...big deal.

THX on the other hand, got a free trip to LA and got to party it up at the MTV unveiling...that is a HUGE reward, that NOBODY else will get just hours later.

I'm not saying he did not earn it, he definitely did, that is not my point. My point is that there were a lot of us who put a ton of time and effort into this and basically got close to nothing out of it.

I was really hoping for something bigger...for example, have one theater in several major cities where they would have a simulcast and a party (MS did simulcasts in theaters for other events for years, I've even been to one myself - they usually do them online now instead). The final challenge solution could have pointed us to where those theaters were and soma "password" to get into the party at 8:30. THAT would have been a great reward and really brought the colony together to meet each other and celebrate our hard work. I would have driven a couple of hours to go to something like that. But this? This is a big letdown...


Our colony will return.

Maybe the next time around we will all win Our Colony Faceplates for the Xbox 360s we will all undoubtedly buy!

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 		Re: In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
xenostar wrote:
Our colony will return.


Yeah, but the question is...will the colonists? ...
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 		Re: In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
Shadowspawn wrote:
xenostar wrote:
Our colony will return.


Yeah, but the question is...will the colonists? ...



What I've been saying alllllll along. But then again, maybe it is a blessing in disguise for the dedicated. For this thing to move into an Ilovebees stage, there needs to be a thinning of our ranks. This may drop our numbers just enough.
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AeroJonesy
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 		If it keeps going, I'll definitely be around. I can't say that I was around a super whole lot, as I unfortunately joined a bit late into this one, but I think there's a lot of cool stuff ourcolony could do from here, and I want to be there for it.

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 		Re: In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
gwilled wrote:
What I've been saying alllllll along. But then again, maybe it is a blessing in disguise for the dedicated. For this thing to move into an Ilovebees stage, there needs to be a thinning of our ranks. This may drop our numbers just enough.


Huh? Why would you need *less* players for it to "move into an Ilovebees stage"?

ILB had over a million players.
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 		Re: In my opinion THX8612 is still the only real winner
Phaedra wrote:
gwilled wrote:
What I've been saying alllllll along. But then again, maybe it is a blessing in disguise for the dedicated. For this thing to move into an Ilovebees stage, there needs to be a thinning of our ranks. This may drop our numbers just enough.


Huh? Why would you need *less* players for it to "move into an Ilovebees stage"?

ILB had over a million players.


Well, I mean the final prize, versus whole colonies "winning". Sorry if it was unclear.
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 		yeah dude. i was AT the NYC event/prize...and there were only about 200 ppl there (which is alot, but not compaired to the 1 million unique hits on the site). It was sweet though, heres what u got if u went:


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 		I think a great prize for Ourcolony would be a 2 year subscription to the Gold xbox live...

You could use it on either xbox or xbox 360....

Or you could sell it and buy an xbox 360 with it
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