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[LorD BaZTArD]

Ok, you've played your card Mann Alive. You don't think this is an ARG so now you plan to troll it and annoy us who are. Do us a favour. Leave. Now.

Funny think, Frank O'Connor happens to be the PR guy for bungie, you know, the guy who updates the website every other day to keep everyone updated and writes tongue firmly in cheek? He also happens to be one of the four guys at bungie that control the Halo Story Bible. Has access to the big book of Halo-universe... PR guy... Haloverse and PR dude-guy. Don't you think that role would be kind of, you know. Perfect to run something like IRIS?

Ok, so it's not running fast enough for you? WAAAH. The biggest problem here is microsoft and not for the reasons you may think. Poor microsoft can't keep it's mouth shut about IRIS. Of course when they do you always get the generic "Micro$oft are evil" bullcrap. Go watch most news blogs when mention of IRIS comes up and you'll see exactly what I mean.

Another problem is the people who want another I Love Bee's and they want it now. I want something like that too but like the original, I'm well aware that I'm going to have to wait for the thing to unfold. This is the key thing that alot of newbies to this kind of thing keep missing. Be patient. Let the game unfold.

Of course given that microsoft have announced that they are doing this and have called it a "campaign" people are now jumping into a oh it's just marketing. Which is odd, because bungie call the story elements of each Halo Game "Campaign" no snappy one line sub-title or big summaries. Just funny level names and chapter gaps, the PR from microsoft are doing the same thing calling the main part of IRIS a campaign to fill in some nice little gaps.

This in turn creates panic threads like this and everyone argues over useless crap.

People. Calm down. Take it as a chance to learn more about HALO and have some puzzles thrown in. That's what it is. That's what I Love Bees was. Don't panic.

[Dyne]

[Phoenix1337]

*sigh*... why did I start this stupid thread?

Ok, I'm back now, and with some perspective. It's and AR not an ARG, and I am totally cool with that now. I really don't have time to check this more than once a day anyhow, so it's probably a blessing.

I would highly advise anyone who's pissed about the state of this campaign to take a few days off. Go outside, get some work done or play some halo. Whatever. Just do something other than sit here and be upset. It's not healthy.

Bottom line: This is not an ARG right now. It may become one in the future (though I find that doubtful), and if so that's great. But at the moment we need to work with what we've got, not bitch about what we don't.

Could we get this thread locked by any chance? I think everything that can be said on this topic already has been, and this thread is just bumming me out.

[thebruce]

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[rose]

Upon further review...no locking needed at this time. :)

[LorD BaZTArD]

Rose raises a good point. The first month or so people were debating if ILB was or was not halo. Is the I Love Bee's forum still archived? That could be an entertaining read for those so inclined. Heh

[violentvixen]

I think my biggest problem with this is that I just don't care as much as I did with ILB. Back then I really wanted to know about the Sleeping Princess, I really wanted more of the little stories of the girl and the balloon or whatever (I only vaguely remember that one), and the other early puzzles were really, um, meaty. I'd have to think about them a lot and I'd be really interested in the solution, but the thought process itself was much more interesting.

With Iris I just haven't had as much of a reason to care. I really wanted to be interested in the Flood Infection slide because it initially looked to be a TEM picture (and TEM is cool), but there's just nothing there. Before I wanted to help the girl, wanted to get more information, now I just have no drive to do so because I don't feel like I'm really helping someone. AR "died" and we couldn't do anything about it, and it doesn't really seem to matter that some new entity is there.

I guess this ARG just makes me feel pointless, so I have a hard time seeing the point of it as well. But hopefully we'll have more interesting characters soon and a story where we have an effect on what's going on.

[violentvixen]

[HB_01]

Just remeber that the game doesent have to end for quite a while, there could be something more still in the works.

[AshofPompei]

[AshofPompei]

[rose]

[toushirou]

i agree with rose, yes this is a viral campaign. but we havent delve far enough into it to reall tell if it is an ARG or not. i wasnt really into ARG's at the time of ILB but from what ive read and heard, it seems to be on the same path as this. we need patience. there could have been more interaction and clues earlier on but every ARG is different who knows, maybe they are going to bombard us with puzzles to figure out at the last minuete.



AshofPompei: im in the same boat pm me because i have a theroy too, ours might be the same

we just have to wait, and if you dont really have that paitience then i guess u wont be able to see it to the end. thats my take on it, im sorta a noob so trout me if you like. im open to all coments and critisism

[LordC]

Money makes the world go round.

[LorD BaZTArD]

I dunno, I've seen some really strong knee-jerk reactions to this. Mainy from people who think that "halo" is over hyped and that microsoft can never do anything right ever. It's pretty funny.

I do think though, that while yeah, the goal behind halo 3 is to make money for bungie and microsoft, bungie still do alot of this to encourage people to get involved. Not everything has a money based hook to it, and bungie of all people know this, they've been doing it for quite a while.