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The 333 and other newbie q's...

[BrianEnigma]

1) Correct.
2) Correct (we are currently assuming)
3) Currect, but enough have responded that we could guess at the missing letters, which were later confirmed by Sente's message on perplexcity.com.

[appleTRON]

Thanks, Bri --

-- a nagging thought: haven't the latest ARG's been cross-promotional tools (for AI, Halo 2, Stella Artois, Audi par example)? Who's to say we aren't all part of some giant marketing ploy? Or do we not worry about such trivial things and just shut up and enjoy the ride?

[Seej]

It's been speculated on ad infinitum - look here.

All we know for sure right now is that one of the members of MC (who was the guy on the Culture Show feature but who's name I can't remember right now) is also a firebox guy. Perhaps that's the only sponsor and the rest of the cash is going to be raised by card sales, though personally I doubt this and suspect there's someone else with loose cash and a desire to get a part of something 'underground'. But basically, we don't know for sure.

[BrianEnigma]

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[Scott]

so fFar -- and i say this very tentatively -- this has been an arg whose promotional motive is only itself. It ties commercially into itself, and the product is only the ARG. specifically I am referring to the cards. It's a fFairly unique model. Commercial ARGs sell something very specific. Grassroots ARGs tend to sell nothing at all. This one only seems to be selling itself.

Enjoy the game? Go buy ... the game.

(But then, this is not a game, now, is it.)

[am520dj]

or maybe it's selling the yet to be anywhere near developed perplex city videogame!

yeah... i don't know what it is about MC's desire to make one, but it makes me shudder.

[Leeravitz]

Possibly the fact that, at the rate producing the cards took, it could be stuck in development hell for a half decade ?!