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The Nature of The Game

[Deiwos]

Being new to ARGs, is it customary for them to be as utterly obscure as possible about what they might be leading to?

So far the only clue as to what it might be about is selling tshirts.

But lets take a look at the themes:

Cloned 'perfect' women;
Feminine fertility cult figures;
Bioweapons;
An assault on Russian goverment in particular;
Retaliation by Russian military;
High-tech counter counter counter counter intelligence going back and forth.

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Re: The Nature of The Game

[Deiwos]

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Not to mention a particularly good actor playing a particularly unique and odd role extremely well. For HOURS.

For it to be as simple as selling tshirts seems pretty improbable. But as I said, I'm new to ARGs so please forgive me if I'm ignorant of what is normal.

(I just happened to.. fall into this one. Someone posted a link of the fake-Google page to SomethingAwful, I checked it out, then was taken to the NSE page, then Googled stuff and ended up at the trailhead thread. Which I then proceeded to read the entirety of, and became hooked to for some reason. Then I started posting and then oh god I'm stuck and part of it.)

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[Soulmech]

You have to remember that the Year Zero ARG ultimately was designed to help sell a CD and restart Trent Reznor's career after the crapfest that was With_Teeth.

As good as this game is, let's be realistic. So far, we've seen two t-shirts for sale. The game will be good; I have no doubts about that. But, I'm not gonna pretend that there's anything more than marketing behind it.

I'm just here for the ride.

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Far from dead. I have a feeling it's just really ramping up. A situation like this has to seep for awhile to get a following on both sides of the table. Sympathy and empathy for a group like Junsui, and a hatred for oppression. We have no idea of Junsui actual motives. Just look at the earliest record we have of them.

That youtube video was talking about that guy's wife just up and practicing pagan rites. He asked her POLITELY to stop because he was advised it would bring ill will. She refused. where is the "good" in that? There was no record of him being abusive to her, so what was her reasoning for blatently defying him?

What was their motives then? What are their motives now? Just like in the dark ages, those who sought knowledge had to hide, and form their own clandestine groups of intellectuals which sprouted the Illuminati which translates to the Illuminated. Were they evil? no. were they of the devil? No. They just simply sought truth in a world ruled by lies and oppresive religious oligarchy.

I'm not sure is this is supposed to be some sort of allusion to real world politics at present, or what the motive is, but the formerly addressed beg for answers.

And time will tell.

Mr. Dubrovin gave me his word that we would recieve answers upon return of his latest brief. I have faith in that.


Personally, I don't believe that Trent Rezors sole motivation behind it was financial. I sincerely do believe that most of it really is his own political motivation and beliefs. But that's neither here nor there.

Buckle up kids.

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Right now I am leaning towards a cross between social experiment and portfolio piece. This is based on a lot of the meta stuff, but also the way the game is structured. The PM has managed to divide the player base into a bunch of people following a religious cult when, even though its IG, they say some really scary and crazy things, and even attack people's OOG life, and at the same time a group dedicated to helping MoT stop them, even though MoT/A-T seems extremely shady. They have created, at least in my, pretty strong emotions, and I suppose due to those emotions, immersion. Maybe at some point a product will surface and we will therefore see where the money came for this high quality material they put out, but I think it's as simple as what Patrick himself said, they are trying to shift the paradigm for ARGs, and if this turnaround continues they just might succeed.

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The way I see it, the ball is going to be in Junsui's court again soon. MoT is "striking back" right now, and I have a feeling they're going to react strongly in some way. Maybe the MoT site will get hijacked, or Dubrovin will be "assassinated/kidnapped" or something else really game-changing will happen.

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