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[Star Spider]

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[sixsidedsquare]

Making a flying post on this thread (I do have some stuff I'd like to add but don't have the time at the moment).
This post is a rather interesting 'dairy of an ARG jacker' as such. It happened during the Giants in out Midst promotion, a small thing for the PS2 game Shadows of Colossus, and though it wasn't trying to be harmful shows how a gamejack can cause confusion. Interesting read.

[konamouse]

My take on the definitions

[Silent|away]

One thing I am wondering: What if someone did a gamejack to actually help out an IG Character? Say, Bob is allied with Evil Corporation #145, and the Corporation want to stop all the other players from finding out the truth.

So, Bob creates a gamejack website (with premission from the Corporation) to misdirect all the players to the website and fool the players, buying the Corporation enough time to pull off its latest scheme.

Now, I understand it is unlikely this is a good idea (it can make many players angry)...but how would one classify it? As part of the main game, or as a gamejack?

[konamouse]

If it's done with the PM & player knowledge, that is part of the game.

In Sammeeeees we created a duplicate version of an IG website to fool a character (and hide some key info that was hidden on the real website).

This was clearly identified in chat (where we hatched the plan) and in the forums of uF where we summarized what we did & why.

Not a gamejack.

[Degausser]

I'm not exactly a veteran ARGer, but it seems to me that 'gamejacking' is a general term that describes activities that disrupt the flow of an ARG with content not authorized by the PM, and not clearly denoted as such.

There can be certain variations on that central theme (unintentional gamejacking, etc.), mostly based around intent and other indeterminable factors, but the fundamental action and its consequences are always undesirable, as they disrupt the PM's plans and distract the players. Even if it makes the game more fun by chance or whatnot, it doesn't matter; it's always bad, as I would argue that the PM has a right to run his game the way he wants no matter what.