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[META] Behind the curtain discussion

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:23 am

Genesis11

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:47 am

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:53 am

Genesis11

Yeah, I see where you're coming from. But, uh, would ANYBODY be willing to fund a manhunt of such large proportions, for any reason??? Actually, we can't even call it a manhunt, because not only do we not know exactly what the coordinates are pointing to, but whatever it is we are looking for could be anywhere within several dozen kilometers.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:58 am

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:36 am

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Yep, and it had realworld events in multiple cities, too. The ARM rallies, where a distributed puzzle was given.

So yeah, if you're looking for something that has the same or bigger potential, this'd be it.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:48 am

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I knew I was going to have to get around to reading that Cloudmakers stuff before long. Turns out I waited a little too long, eh?

Well, guys and gals, there you go. Microsoft can, has, and more then likely is doing something big. Shoulda stuck with my gut.

This makes me happy. It's almost tipping me to looking at that coordinate near me. Too bad it looks like it's in the middle of a farmer's field in rural South Dakota, half a state away, and I don't own a GPS.

edit- And looking at the dates that the Beast went on for, it looks like the release of Halo 2 might possibly be at the end of the Haunted Apiary. On November 9th.

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:53 am

kole · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 36

could these cords be positions of MS Servers? i mean, MS has tons of servers all over the world, many for Xbox Live. could they be using Xbox Live to deliver a downloadable demo of Halo 2 on the 24th?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:08 am

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:13 am

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:48 am

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:30 am

Roc · Veteran Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 81

As much as I'd like to think this will be on The Beast scale. and as much as I think combining an ARG and Geocaching would kick serious ass -- I'm becoming skeptical.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:41 am

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xTopGunx · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 30

Guys, someone said this in a previous post- don't get locked into an August 24th end-game date. It's likely that on that day there will just be another puzzile, probably a boat load of 'em, and the game could very well end on November 9th.

If your asking why Microsoft just randomly picked August 24th as the wide awake date, look no further than SP2. They needed a date, and BLAMO. They just used SP2 as that date. That's probably the only correlation SP2 has with this game.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:51 am

Genesis11

I didn't mean the Microsoft couldn't be behind such a grand scavenger hunt- because, as has been pointed out, that would be rather idiotic to assume. However, I DON'T think that microsoft would make something like a Real Life scavenger hunt. Internet, fine. But actually having people go to those locations could be insane. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I sincerely doubt it would happen. Besides, this isn't exactly huge news- it's more of an underground kind of thing. You know, most moviegoers probably didn't even notice the ilovebees thing, and even less would actually go online and try to figure it out...

Or maybe I've just lost it.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:26 am

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