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I just pulled this out of my stuff to show a friend.

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Hello Games did an ARG for the Waking Titan update in 2017. They sent out a number of them to people that participated and registered.

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I assume that was a US only thing (maybe US/CAN?). I've been playing NMS since it was first around but don't ever remember this - looks like it would have been fun.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hello Games is based in the UK, so I'd expect it took place at least there.

[–] NOP@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

I've got mine (in the UK) and really enjoyed the ARG even if I didn't manage to solve much of the crypto stuff. It was a team effort and I hope they do some more, maybe for LNF. I think they hired a third party company to do ARG as it must be a hell of a lot of work to create and manage.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Cool! That’s some neat swag.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Not everyone. I never got mine :/

[–] NMSGalacticHub@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I was one of the lucky people who also got food for Mr. Noodles (later re-identified as Ms. Noodles), as well as a classic scifi book, Nine Tomorrows by Asimov

Prized possessions. Having old rabbit foot as a prized possession feels kinda weird, but sometimes your destiny is handed to you, you are not always given a choice.

[–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Great swag.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I remember reading about them on the wiki, but that is all I know about them.

[–] dwenius@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I still have mine, still wish it would have had some in-game use.

The Waking Titan ARG was THE MOST bonkers game launch thing I have ever seen and when I try to explain parts of it ("We had to collaboratively solve puzzles to unlock a fuzzy image on a web page that revealed another inscrutable clue", "We sent an actual human to a random physical location to collect the next clue by hand"), I get gobsmacked stares.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

I remember one of the people sent to get things was in South Africa. They couldn't get it because they stopped at a convenience store that was robbed.

[–] Nyvios@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yup, got mine in a photo frame on display as well