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The Final Round of ILoveBees
Ensign Trolltalk writes "The Alternate Reality Game ilovebees (previously covered here and here) has entered its endgame, with the presumably final round of telephone calls taking place Sunday October 31st. Anyone wishing to get involved before it's over should check out the latest axon list (available here in more human-readable format with GPS coordinates, city, state, call time, and links to maps) and be prepared for anything. On Thursday November 4th, live "Combat Training Exercises" will be held in New York, Chicago, Austin, and San Francisco. It's believed that attendees will get to see and play Halo 2 before the game's official release. See the 404 page for details on these events."
I am not the grandparent AC, but...
What do you call having a fake and "unrelated" web in the official trailer, the fake page getting "hacked" after being mentioned, and sending a lot of nonsensical gibberish?
What do you call having the "victim" not doing jack about all the supposed blog/site "hacking" attempts?
What do you call lots of people traveling several miles to GPS coordinates of a pay phone just to hear some pre-recorded messages?
What do you call people being controlled by a marketing department, and made to act and look like complete fools?
This is what things look to those who are not fanboys, or who didn't get caught up in this cheesy marketing scheme.
I would also say it is cheesy due to the fact that the whole thing is soo obviously fake, and it was more like a bad science fiction novel/movie.