on 18-06-2009 07:45 PM
on 18-06-2009 08:17 PM
on 18-06-2009 08:30 PM
on 18-06-2009 09:59 PM
on 18-06-2009 11:13 PM
I dunno. It's fine. A t-shirt's a t-shirt. I'll take it.
I know we all wanted some grand prize, an exciting reward for all the hard work, all the noodle-scratching brain-melting cogitation, for all the time we've put into this. Something fabulous to point at and proudly proclaim "I earned that, I did."
But in a way I'm glad we didn't get that. And I'll tell you for why; because there's a lot of people out there who completed Xi and most of, if not all the butterflys without putting anything like the same amount of effort into it. People who looked at the walkthroughs and spoilers and just typed the codes in, one at a time, without even attempting to figure things out for themselves.
I don't want those people to receive the same fantastic "puzzle master" reward that I feel I have earned, knowing full well that they haven't.
Alas, with Xi there wasn't really any way to stop them from mindless code copying; and the G.A.R.Y.s ran riot. Hopefully the Xi sequel will allow for codes which are unique to the player, and maybe even puzzles that are slightly different for everyone too. Not such an easy task perhaps, but certainly possible. At least then we'll know that anyone who has completed the game has definitely earned something special.
Yeah. A t-shirt's fine, this time. It may not be a big reward, but at least we know that laziness isn't being overly rewarded too.

on 19-06-2009 12:05 AM
What would you all have preferred then?
To me its a tshirt at least its something...it better than NOTHING!!!
A little statue of stapler would have been nice or life size.
But hey at Least you got the tshirt... I cannot get the keypads to work. Have been in and out of home 3 times now. I have given up for the night.
Hentis
on 19-06-2009 01:08 AM
on 19-06-2009 06:16 AM
on 19-06-2009 07:22 AM
on 19-06-2009 08:17 AM
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