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[guesty]

www.infiniumlabs.com

Infinium Labs, Inc.
1191 Second Ave
5th Floor
Seattle, WA USA 98101
(206) 370-4758

call em up and ask if they are related to eon8.

[Lufia]

Even if it's a marketting strategy, I doubt it'd work. The Phantom; a gaming console that hopes to compete with the 360/PS3/wii.

Even if someone sees "Phantom" all over eon8, I doubt they'd buy it then and there. A gaming console relies on games, and I've yet to see anyone seriously develop anything for the Phantom. Besides, didn't the Phantom kind of flop a while ago?

The only hype Phantom would have going for it would be this site (if it were indeed related to Infinium Labs).

I somehow doubt it's for the Phantom, but we'll see.

[Guest]

If it is in fact an advertisement for something i will never buy it, just because that are being assholes for making me wait

[MethosK]

As you change your clock, every time you add a day to the time, it goes between 0 days left (on the countdown) and 1 day left on the countdown. Dont know if that means anything

[Aydoo]

[Bass]

[Lufia]

I'm not saying the strategy is wrong, I'm just noting that it wouldn't be that effective for Phantom.

Halo pretty much had a guaranteed fanbase, even after the first one. ILB was fairly fun and interactive as well. eon8 is mysterious, sure, and it might work for something that has basis to sell.

I think a lot of the gaming industry knows about the "Phantom" too, but mostly the thing's a big joke. This gives them a chance, maybe to the audience... but still, shouldn't they be working on maybe, I don't know, forming contracts and getting games announced for their system?

[Aydoo]

[asscandles]

'ello. i discovered the eon8.com website through that ytmnd, http://eon8theinvestigation.ytmnd.com/. naturally i was curious and looked at everything i could find on the site. not much information i could glean from there, especially not since i don't know a damn thing about hacking and whatnot.

now, any of you that have searched for info regarding eon8 know that you're not going to find much of anything anywhere other than on a handful of forums. i've tried google and msn, and gotten nearly zilch. i happened across this forum by using yahoo. i don't know what unfiction.com is about yet because i've been caught up reading this thread from the first post to the last. but that's beside the point. there's a stub of an entry on wikipedia, but it doesn't offer anything that everyone interested doesn't know at this point.

obviously it's not the work of organized terrorists (or shit, even one lousy terrorist) because, even though it's difficult to discover, the way it's designed makes it far too suspicious and naturally makes people talk. really, what kind of idiot terrorists would have a countdown available to the public? it could have been created by some nutball or a group of nutballs, but that doesn't seem to jibe with the normal behavior of most nutballs (excluding scientologists) in that they typically like to let everyone know what weirdness they think and try to persuade people with whatever they think supports it.

i would be inclined to think it's some sort of marketing gimmick, except that not much has been done to raise awareness of it in different forms of media. i mean, if this is in fact part of an advertising campaign, i would consider it a failure if only because relatively few people are aware of eon8.com at all.

whatever it is, we'll soon find out

also, i took a look at infiniumlabs.com and if they're behind it, they're not telling. if they are, they suck. for real.

[ashdead]

The hidding of the idenity of even with WhoIs database kind of gets me wondering.

Some hacker groups would pull shit crap just for attention.

There is also a chance that it is bored college kids trying to see if they can start a new roumor on the web.

The forums the cryptic messages have been posted are also where younger computer users hang out.

[Aydoo]

[Phaedra]

[loki3]

http://whois.domaintools.com/Eon8.com

[Aydoo]

[asscandles]

heh, i knew i'd get drawn into this. while it's true that marketing of this sort is most likely aimed at, well, the online subculture of people that spend huge amounts of time discussing a mysterious website like this, do you suppose it will make anyone want to buy their product? it's pretty unnecessary if, at the end of the countdown, they launch advertisements on television, in magazines, etc. it worked for halo because, as someone else already said, there's a huge fanbase for that to begin with. it was just icing on the cake. if eon8.com turns out to be part of an advertising strategy for the phantom, it's not going to do much of anything to help them compete against all the other gaming platforms out there already that many people are loyal to. eon8.com offers practically no clues as to what it's about. being somewhat mysterious is fine, but i have a feeling that if this turns out to be hype created by infinium labs, everyone's going to be disappointed. just like i am every time i try to shoot the duck to win a free ipod. sigh.