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[WhisperInTheWind]

[Nighthawk]

I'm not "pissed off"... I'm puzzled.

It doesn't make any sense. Throw all those clues in the last few days and end it all abruptly?!? All these clues unresolved.... two domains that don't have anything on them yet...

There's more to this, I can feel it. But, if that's the case, bad form in opening the curtain early.

They were in control of the timing, so I don't feel that we missed anything or else they would have accelerated the timeline. If everything *had* to be done by today, they would have done whatever necessary in order to accomplish that.

It just doesn't make any sense.

[randomnoob]

WOW that was underwhelming. I was expecting a second phase of the game. I'd never heard of ARGs until last month, and this genuinely interested me. But now I just feel... well, tricked. I mean, what about Divinus? Kellie? John? I just sent emails to all the addresses involved; I'm sure I'll get back some quick "closure" nonsense. Gah. I never liked RPGs and this makes me dislike them even more.

[jjmfdl]

so then its, if my memory serves correctly:

Thebeginni
ngistheend

[WhisperInTheWind]

I agree, Nighthawk. There was too much going on (well, not really, but stuff happened) with Triton Enterprises and Divinus to just close it up. When I got the autoreply email from Kellie Graham, my very first thought was a flashback to "Half Life" and the opening scene where the scientists open a portal to another dimension...then I skipped over to a memory replay of "Event Horizon" and...well, you get the idea.

There is/was an EPIC game potential here...forcing poor schmucks like us to dig through layers of alternate reality to figure out exactly what had been done, what had been unleashed, and how it all tied together. This COULD have been an EXPERIENCE.

Now, I'm just hoping they manage to wrap it up as a game.

[TGI Fridays]

[jjmfdl]

Googled Alpha omega...and it looks like remakes have been brought to the gaming industry again.....:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/1723
Alpha Omega
It was made in the 1980's

[theguy]

[Whitenoise]

[Uberg33k]

I am soooooo glad I sat out of all of this and just waited till 8-1. I understand why you guys are pissed, but I think you brought it on yourselves by making this into more than it was. Still, to put all that effort into EHWR with the flash and videos and then the ending is a weak sauce press release? I think Mindstorm just alienated more customers than it gained.

[FrozenFade]

Ckrox was considered out of game because it was registered in like 2004, I cant imagine they were planning this back in 2004. Because if they were planning this back then, it would have gone off a little more smoothly.


I think the problem with this ARG is it got caught up in all the cloverfield crap, so people that this wasn't really aimed at got interested. Now all those same people are angry. Had it not got caught up in the cloverfield mess, people who like paper and pencil RPGs would have been the only ones interested in this.

This is nothing like year zero in that year zero kept going even after the release of the product, in fact the CD was just another piece of the ARG. So yes maybe this ARG has failed or whatever, but hey they cant all be I Love Bees....

[FrozenFade]

and I still cant get http://www.alphaomegathegame.com/ to load. Its making me crazy.

[WhisperInTheWind]

http://www.alphaomega.thegame.com

[Whitenoise]

it was working earlier today... probably got more traffic than they expected.
Now about the reminder email and code we are suppose to have:

I think if there is a next part of the story will unfold using their game mechanics, kind of like a trial account to get us hooked, possibly its what we do with the code we are suppose to get.

[setters393]

ha - you think we feel robbed, just wait until nothing happens over on the cloverfield project!!