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[Baby]

lazy players??

[Crescent]

lazy or?

[catherwood]

Re: lazy players??

[notgordian]

Also, it's important to recognize that a lot of assets in ARGs (puzzle solutions included) aren't necessarily provided.

If this is something necessary for the plot? Consider creating another workaround. If it isn't? What would happen to your story if players don't have the information / miss the deadline? This type of situation is what really separates ARGs from transmedia experiences-on-rails. Players have surprised you...now where do you take it?

[FLmutant]

Being brutally frank here: you've got a design issue, it isn't the players. It could be one of several things, you'll have to soul search to determine which, but it most definitely isn't because players are lazy -- they just aren't doing what you want them to do and you didn't leave yourself enough alternates.

You might not have enough audience. You might not have the right kind of audience.

You might be making the error of trying to control the pace: you've got to let audiences tackle things at their own speed without that chaos derailing everything from happening. It still happens to the best of us.

You might be making the error of making too few options for players -- they keep using the one interactive feature designed because they don't see the other toys you laid out. Give them the toys.

You might have developed too rigid of a story, or you might be ignoring narrative choices you can make to get over the pacing roadbump.

Whatever it is, if it is really "the players are lazy" than you've already lost as a PM. You're no longer making it for them.