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Re: Metacortechs Puzzle Solved?

[jamesi]

Censorship is not a board policy except as defined in the board Terms of Service. Moderators of specific forums/threads can take it upon themselves to edit or delete posts (ergo, 'censor') as they see fit. In this case, the moderators of this particular section of the forum took it upon themselves to censor particular comments in order to best protect the curtain.

This is not an isolated situation. When The Beast was in its run, the Cloudmaker moderators did something similar when it was apparent that a crack had been found underneath the curtain. While not all of the players fully understood or respected the wishes of the CM mods, the mods stood by their decisions and the game marched on.

Hopefully, players can see that certain posts/flames in the Metacortechs section were, um, BALEETED or edited by board mods because of a similar occurence with this new game.

Views about collectivedetective.com belong to those who write them, and they were not part of the issue at hand. Again, it was simply an attempt to protect the curtain.

If you would like to read more about the board administrator's views about forum moderation, please see this thread. Besides this, I stand by whatever 'censorship' took place by my hands or by the hands of other mods/admins.

Now, if we can please go back to having fun, I'd appreciate it wholeheartedly.

[Woody]

what the hell?

[GOD]

Wake Up

[Varin]

Re: Wake Up

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well, if it was really a fan that made this, they wouldn't bring the information to place that can be very influent on the people reading the news. So, this is a part of marketing that Warnerbros have already get in touch with like for AI. But probably that the W brother are involved in this.

[Dr Wily]

There is no risk of a lawsuit on the part of the PMs. What would they be sued for, exactly? Fraud? No one has claimed to have any official affiliation with Warner Brothers. Copyright infringement? In fact, the only direct references to the Matrix movies so far have been the 'Metacortex' name and the entry for Thomas Anderson in the bio section thereof. And if you go to any Matrix fansite on the whole intar-web, you will find roughly 57 billion times as much use of copyrighted material. What does an underwater hotel have to do with the Matrix mythos anyway?
All that having been said, I think it's entirely plausible that this is being backed by WB. They were, after all, behind the Beast, and the not-to-be-named identity of the PMs also makes sense in that context, if you think about it--in which case, WB earns a lot of cool points from me.
Personally, I doubt that is the case. I don't think a Hollywood production company is really deserving of the cool points I previously mentioned. If they were to launch another ARG, I think they would probably give it to Microsoft, who did so well on the Beast. I really don't think they'd give it to -unnamed-; even if -unnamed- were doing it for next-to-nothing. I just don't think Hollywood Production Exective Whoever thinks like that.
And again, just as a matter of personal opinion, I was turned off from this game over the whole -unnamed- fiasco. To me, the sheer clumsiness of the way that was handled ruined everything. The name -unnamed- getting out like that--that could've been incorporated by the ARG. I've been GMing role-playing games since high school; any GM worth his/her salt knows that for your game to work, it has to be flexible; you have to be prepared for anything. The -unnamed- company could easily have turned out to be a company in the Matrix, or there could have been an ARG-within-an-ARG (how Matrix would THAT have been?), anything, really. But by going with this censoring strategy, saying that we need to preserve the 'curtain,' all they're doing is bringing more attention to the curtain.
That's just me, though. I could be wrong.

[Guest]

Mods, how is this offtopic. This is the Metacortex general forum. I thought that as long as it's dealing with Metacortex, it's on topic. Maybe it should be named [GENERAL], meaning not anything dealing with solving the puzzles, just commenting about the whole game itself. I took "off topic" to mean threads talking about how Neo will kick Smith's ass or something.

It's your call really, and it doesn't really matter one way or another, except that the word [OFF TOPIC] is a turn off to other members and they won't even bother to open this thread.

[Guest]

i have some knowledge of making movies, and this type of an online game would take the type of collaboration necessary for a film, a video game, any type of project that had to look waay down the road and plan every little detail from start to finish.

i doubt very much this arg has been initiated by a fan. there's far too much and too many entities involved. sure, any one of us could sit down and put together a game like this given enough time and effort, but it would take months of work and research. i imagine an arg is put together by telling a story first, and then breaking the story down into clues. this is not an easy thing to do. it takes people who do this type of creative work for a living.

i also doubt anyone would put up an arg that could be solved in 36 days. metacortex opened oct 30, revolutions opens nov 5. how could they be sure it would be solved in such a short period of time, particularly as the clues have come slowly in this two week period? i think it will go on beyond revolutions release, thought we may find a clue in the movie.

this reeks of the bros to me, despite wb's denial. there are enough companies involved in the matrix compendium of work, that plenty could be directly responsible, without wb's direct influence...except for possibly dollars under the table. the whole point of there being puppetmasters is that they stay behind the curtain.

[Varin]

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What about the beta test info?

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