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[Wishi-san]

The Final Countdown

[green ice queen]

Re: The Final Countdown

[alcofribas]

Wishi San x Wishi San x Wishi San

Your post makes me feel a tad maudlin... is it really all coming to an end

...been out of it for ages (some personal crises and PC glitches) and popped back in to see if Jon had somehow managed to have been saved and the book of star decoded, but nothing much seems to have happened

i haven't read up on all the posts so am not up to par with everything but do agree with you that the long lapses in game can contribute to boredom...

but out of the boredom has come some good banter which I will have to take time to catch up on - i think the people who play the games make the games rather than the PM's - they just sketch the outlines - the gameplayers make them live - not much point having games if no-one plays them

oh noo getting serious, and i never even got decorated with me pink ribbony thingies

anyway Wishi, if it all comes to a sudden grinding halt and S&S wipe all evidence of their contract off the face of cyberspace... nice knowin' yer and yer weren't a bad "Mod"... a bit tetchy now and then but every good society needs its bosses to keep order....

grovel.... etc etc (can one get decorated without doing loadsa posts?)

[Meak]

I'm actually a bit sad.

I've been here from it's birth, to it's croaky, non-existent death.

I remember waking up early for a 'phone call', talking to psychic palm readers about alephs and drinking stupid amounts of stella (priced at £13.66 for 10 cans), texting six random phone numbers and waking gamers up at 4 in the morning.....ah, those were the days

it's such a shame the game fizzled out...

i really hope though that we get to know what the answer actually was... i for one can't face looking at those six symbols anymore... too many sleepless nights!

So, PM's ..... it was great at the beginning, but I think we drifted apart! A bit like a relationship, I feel like you don't care about me anymore!

Wishi, I suppose you did ok. cheers for clearing out the trolls.

meak
xxx

[Wishi-san]

[flutesalad]

When I found Sable and Shuck up for an award and decided to investigate further I had no idea what I was letting myself in for! It's been fun, it's been frustrating (thanks for that 4am text message, Meak! ), there's been a bit too much sitting around but it'll be sad to wave byebye to the man in black and Brigid. Let's hope the PMs decide to end things with a bang. Whoever ends up with the prize...well, you deserve it for persevering!

S&S introduced me to ARGing in general, as I think it did a lot of people, so thanks guys for tolerating myself and the other noobs as we ploughed our way through. If or one will be sticking around...currently over in unholy movie waiting for orders from martha.

And let's not rule out a last-minute flurry of clues....surely that ten grand is burning a hole in their pockets...

[xardox]

Endgame

[lotusflower]

Aye, I'll be glad to see it go myself. I can finally stop checking back here to see if anyone 'got it' yet.

I've been following it since the beginning, and oh my god was I excited about it. But sadly, it's obviously been made by marketing people rather than gaming people and ultimately that has been its downfall. But damn did they employ a proper puzzle-crafter for that end one! I can't believe there weren't more clues somewhere for us to follow, rather than just the random inputting of combinations and numbers that we all spent hours inputting.

SO, good work for the concept guys, the storyline was excellent, the implementation was just too slow.

Perhaps I'll be reaching for a Kronie from now on though ; )

[Porkchop]

Yeah, pretty much agree with everything said so far.

I didn't start the game right at the very beginning and only joined a good few weeks into the game but I have to say I've enjoyed playing it, if not a little frustrated with the end game, not the actual end puzzle itself but the lack of any clear cut info and clues to actually solve it. It just seems like they gave up on updating it. Incredible how that flyer came to light though, the only clue we ever got to solving the end game.

Not a bad game for my first ARG, it managed to capture my attention for some time but in the end I got lost in doing other things and as the momentum of the game dwindled so did my interest.

It was a good idea with all the txt msgs and video msgs and stuff, the game seems well thought out and I think they've done a great job but I think that there wasn't enough happening in the storyline to warrant such a long time period over which the game was played out and it ended up that the sub puzzles where solved fairly quickly leading to the drawn out pauses between any updates.

Saying that I did find myself examining the packaging on a crate of Stella in the supermarket last night in the hope of finding anything
It certainly hasn't made me go out and buy a crate though, I prefer 1664 myself.

I'll definitely be looking to play other ARG's in the future though.
It's been great being part of it and talking to you all as well.

[Bidvision]

This has been my first ARG as well, and I agree with the comments posted above about the great concept and rubbish pacing.

I found it all utterly brilliant for the first few steps through the game. It's now become just a frustrating pain in the rear end.

I really hope there is some closure to this on June 27th. The absence of any content for so long makes it seem only a 50/50 chance that we'll ever hear from Stella about this again.

Or maybe they'll prove us wrong and provide an exciting ending to the game. I certainly hope so.

[demiurge]

Farewell.

[ryandrew]

I know i havent posted in a month or two, but I feel sad that in 8 days it is all over. The cynic in me still thinks maybe there is no real prize, and stella will just say they gave it to some random.

But if they do that, we'll know. Surely the winner must have to be a person who uses these boards? I still dont get how they determine who was closer with so many god damned variables...
There is no way we came too close really is there, what with there being umpteen quadrillion combinations!

[Tev]

Agreed

[flutesalad]

[bartmans]

Also for me it was my first ARG and I was very fascinated by the interaction of the hiding room, the marvelous desing of the websites, and the wit of the PM's (and the planning that it should have taken) to include some real-life websites.
I particularly liked the story concept and learned a lot about Faust (and by-the-way also on the Isle of Man).

Later on I lost interest by the slow pace, and the end-game was really annoying.

Let's hope that we soon do not see the end of the game, but the start of Episode II: how Jon escapes from the MiB, together with Brigid, that they are haunted all over the world, interacting with the players for finding safe harbours, and that in the end they lure the MiB into a trap, get married, an live happily after all (of course with a load of cash that they found in the premises of Sable&Shuck).

Wouldn't that be nice...?