Dimitri LH
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Transmitiendo informacion a omnicos activos?
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Transmitting information to active omnics
The hell?
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Overwatch Sombra ARG - No one is ready for Sombra [Up2: New Model Leaks]
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Transmitiendo informacion a omnicos activos?
Translation:
Transmitting information to active omnics
The hell?
You know....
I feel like a lot of these companies who want to do ARG's need to go back and look at why people enjoyed ilovebees.
You have to have some payoff to a successfully solved puzzle. If the reward for the community coming together to solve a puzzle is another puzzle, people lose interest, especially if it makes it feel like they wasted their time. There needs to be a lot more carrot and a lot less stick with this. Because I don't know anyone who though the past 3 hours was fun or interesting.
This reminds me of Sega shrugging while laughing and saying "our Sonic Mania arg was soooo clever!!!! people never even caught on, even after we made it easier!" No people saw the clues, but there was no pay off for finding them except for having the clues, so people lost interest.
I feel like a lot of these companies who want to do ARG's need to go back and look at why people enjoyed ilovebees.
You have to have some payoff to a successfully solved puzzle. If the reward for the community coming together to solve a puzzle is another puzzle, people lose interest, especially if it makes it feel like they wasted their time. There needs to be a lot more carrot and a lot less stick with this. Because I don't know anyone who though the past 3 hours was fun or interesting.
This reminds me of Sega shrugging while laughing and saying "our Sonic Mania arg was soooo clever!!!! people never even caught on, even after we made it easier!" No people saw the clues, but there was no pay off for finding them except for having the clues, so people lost interest.
The ARG stuff started way too soon I reckon, should have been 2 weeks before reveal then ramp it up just the week before.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Sombra has been decided to fail. Ana gamers are smart. They're the smartest gamers out there. They don't think but know things other people might not, and one of those things is characters count. Ana gamers don't think but know that a character like Sombra needs to be a sniper to be fun. However, they also don't think but know that there simply aren't enough people to go around. Between Genji, Hanzo, hell even Widowmaker, who is left to play Sombra? Ana gamers don't think but know that there's nobody left. In order to strengthen Ana's player counts, Ana gamers made a tough choice that they didn't think but knew was for the greater good. They decided Sombra would fail. Nobody would play her, nobody would buy skins for her, and all so Overwatch could be the best game it could be. Today, millions of happy gamers frag out as Ana. Blizzard should just cut their losses. When Ana gamers decide something, it's decided, and no amount of dev work will change that decision. Let's just say I don't think Blizzard will hemorrhage money from this continued support.
Phrozenflame500
Member
This feels like a Valve ARG except like infinitely less interesting.
TheSpoiler
Member
You have to wake up.
W A K E U P.
W A K E U P.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
If every solved ARG clue gave us something about her like an ability or parts of her body so it felt like we were actually 'finding' her and putting her together like fucking Exodia, that would be something.
Solving a clue so that you can solve another clue is fucking lame.
Solving a clue so that you can solve another clue is fucking lame.
It´s transmiting information to active omnics (I´m guessing the translator has no idea of what omnics are [RACIST])
doctorblurg
Banned
Man I was really looking forward to getting an actual teaser today. Guess its time to wait till blizzcon
Quote for abearness of our mental suffering
JStein0222
Member
Is this an ARG?
Zomba13
Member
The potato stuff was good though! lots of games got updates and special things and challenges to get all the potatoes, getting them all gave you a gold one and the gold one gave you the valve complete pack (which they later updated to give you tradeable versions of dupes). The only thing it underdelivered on was the stuff about speeding up the Portal 2 release date which it didn't at all. That part was bullshit. The actual ARG stuff was a lot of fun though. Here the ARG is "solve this code" and then nothing but waiting. Like, we aren't even getting information about the character, all the stuff we know about Sombra we've known since the start, it is a female, has some kind of relationship with Reaper and Talon, operates in Dorado and is some kind of hacker (which we got from the very first instance of the ARG).
Hydrophobic
Member
Now you've got me refreshing this stupid simple little webpage to see if it's updated. Quit that.
backflip10019
Member
Oh great, so it's increasing about 1% every 15 minutes. So at this rate, we won't learn anything for another... 24 1/2 hours.
3%
So it's going up? Wonder if it'll finish by tomorrow.
Edit:
That's about what I figured. Frustrating, but certainly preferable to padding this shit out for another week or more. Whatever their plans were, reveal needs to happen after this. Shit's not fun anymore.
So it's going up? Wonder if it'll finish by tomorrow.
Edit:
That's about what I figured. Frustrating, but certainly preferable to padding this shit out for another week or more. Whatever their plans were, reveal needs to happen after this. Shit's not fun anymore.
falconxcrunner09
Member
PPL on reddit saying its at 3%
Omg, this is getting dragged out way too long. Im done.
Omg, this is getting dragged out way too long. Im done.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Some people really need to learn that countdowns are for the END of an ARG, after all the puzzles are solved. Gets the community hyped and focused, then at the end of the countdown, END THE DAMN GAME. This whole "countdown to more puzzles to another countdown" shit is just not playing well with anybody.
This night gonna be fun
Can't wait for the next teaser!
Honestly I still believe we're getting Sombra before Season 2. They wouldn't do all these crazy elaborate teases if there wasn't something happening this soon. It's just poor form of hype to do this for the next two months. I just expect them to show the next hero at Blizzcon leading up to Season 3.
Dead Prince
Banned
then we'll get Come back tuesday for the full reveal when it reaches 100%. RIP RIP Blizzard.
Maintenance
Member
Over/Under 50 pages (100ppp) before the announcement?
Zomba13
Member
YES. If it was something like clues given out over weeks/months that when solved revealed something about the character (like weapon, abilities, images, background/lore etc) then it'd at least be something. Instead it's solve code to solve code to solve code to wait to solve code to solve code to get hint to solve code to timer to timer.
Phrozenflame500
Member
Updated to 3%. Might want to try clearing your cache, or force refreshing (Ctrl+F5 I think on Chrome?)
Yup, it's another countdown. Wew.
Yup, it's another countdown. Wew.
Dimitri LH
Member
Bah you caught my auto correct typo before edit.....inb4 Monica is Sombra
Actual
Member
DeathSparks
Member
Yep I'm done
Ctrl-f5 didn't work. Went to firefox and it's now up to 3% Maybe it's because I'm using incognito mode.
WHO'S THAT JUMPING OUT THE SKY
The more people buy boxes, the more it goes up.
Tabasco
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Hydrophobic
Member
Me too now. All I have to say is (┛◉Д◉
┛彡┻━┻(┛◉Д◉┛彡┻━┻(┛◉Д◉┛彡┻━┻(┛◉Д◉┛彡┻━┻ COME ONjacksepticeye
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Countdown for loading up is BS
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