Codebreakers, help me!

[schild]

The unfortunate thing is - who the hell wants Pocket Kingdom? Or an NGage for that matter. It's a damn shame it wasn't for a cooler game. I would've enjoyed 0wning the world in something else.

[ajax34i]

Didn't Vanguard:SOH pull the same "great marketing ploy" with an encoded message on their website when they announced the game?

[Evil Elvis]

Kinda reminds me of that scene in A Christmas Carol where Ralphie gets his Little Orphan Annie decoder pin.

[doubleplus]

It's not necessarily bad for me but now I'm starting to wonder if the guy who sent me the link already figured it out, since he has seen my N-gage possession first hand. Thanks for the help, guys. Still makes me wonder what the giveaway is.

[Moroni]

Go ahead and send the mail, let us know what you win.

You solved it man. You might as well see what the guy has to offer, even if it's lame swag, it's good laundry day clothes.

[Murgos]

Kinda reminds me of that scene in A Christmas Carol where Ralphie gets his Little Orphan Annie decoder pin.

A Christmas Story.  Carol is the other one, with Scrooge.

[Righ]

Out of interest, does anybody else remember Pimania?

[Evil Elvis]

Kinda reminds me of that scene in A Christmas Carol where Ralphie gets his Little Orphan Annie decoder pin.

A Christmas Story.  Carol is the other one, with Scrooge.

Wow.  I can't believe I didn't catch myself on that.

[Rof]

Out of interest, does anybody else remember Pimania?

I never played Pimania (or My Name is Uncle Groucho, for that matter), but I for sure remember the ads on the back on PCW every week. (Who was the PiMan, daddy?)

[Biobanger]

I don't know, I was looking at Pocket Kingdoms and it looked kinda fun. I'm personally tired of all the L33t dude playing all the MMOs and ruining half the game for me, so some game that makes fun of all that is pretty worth it to me.

I will have to get an N-Gage, but I'm not too worried about it since I need a new phone anyway (don't play racketball with your cell phone on).

[Paelos]

Drink more Ovaltine

[Biobanger]

Drink more Ovaltine

?

[Samwise]

If you've never seen A Christmas Story, or read In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash....

.... I can only assume you're a Martian.

[WonderBrick]

Go watch A Christmas Story NOW.  It is a universal classic, that even ad nauseam repeated Chrismas viewings cannot diminish.

[Azhrarn]

I've actually watched that multiple times in a row when some station (TNT?) did a marathon.  It was still better then all the other crap they had on.

[UD_Delt]

Go watch A Christmas Story NOW. It is a universal classic, that even ad nauseam repeated Chrismas viewings cannot diminish.

And it will also show you how nice downtown Cleveland used to look...

[doubleplus]

You guys were definitely right. It's an N-Gage related site for Pocket Kingdoms, an MMORPG built for the N-Gage Arena. I'm going to kill my friend for sending me the link, but at least it gives me something to look forward to on the system.

[schild]

The NGage isn't a system. It's a phone with gaming capabilities.

[Azhrarn]

It's a phone? :p

[funkyflea]

hey guys.....im a big big fan of n-gage and study d thing inside out...


this pocket kingdom game was announced months ago.....its on all d games sites..


pwn, noob, l33t speak all that stuff was announced....

you were kinda slow!!
but it was interesting to watch you guys try to decipher it...

cya round!

[WayAbvPar]

Amazingly, I am not sure that is in the top 10 as far as douchebaggiest first posts. Nice try though.

[schild]

It's not in the top 10 because it's a gimmick account. An IP Ban sounds good.

edit: omfg, he's d n3w35t b@n, exc1t1ng.

[Roac]

cya round!

No you won't.

[Paelos]

d00d I'm so l337 n00bl3rs!!11

Allow me to help you find a new home

Enjoy

[Biobanger]

Ok, this is weird, I'm seeing genuine interest for Pocket Kingdoms on other forums, and then I see crap like this too.

Are they like giving away free pizza for people to hype the game?

[schild]

Actually. we'll be doing a bit on PK in a week or so. The game, now that I've seen information (that you haven't seen), actually looks pretty fucking cool. We'll see how it works. Unfortunately it doesn't use sprint. That's a -1 for the N-Gage (or for Sprint depending on if you hate the player or the game).

[Moroni]

Dish. Exclusives make things interesting by their very existence!

[doubleplus]

Actually. we'll be doing a bit on PK in a week or so. The game, now that I've seen information (that you haven't seen), actually looks pretty fucking cool. We'll see how it works. Unfortunately it doesn't use sprint. That's a -1 for the N-Gage (or for Sprint depending on if you hate the player or the game).

So you're saying I might have to change my signature soon?

[schild]

No. I will always stand by the N-Gage being ridiculous in it's design and it's existance. But it is the only thing that can support what the game does. Like I said - more information will be coming soon. Hopefully, very soon.

[Righ]

Presumably Nokia are giving you a free device because all the overstock in their warehouse has been deemed a fire hazard?

[doubleplus]

Come on, they could send everyone in the industry 10 and still be at risk of a towering inferno of orange plastic.

[SurfD]

ok, I feel a little bit dirty about this, but I took the liberty of sending in the cracked message, just to see what might actually happen (since no one here seemed interested in running with it.)

This is the message i got back from them a few days ago:

Excellent,

You're the first winning pass into the Pocket Kingdom sneak peek. Send us
your mailing address, you'll receive an N-Gage QD, a $50 pre-paid phone card for a month's service, and a pre-release copy of Pocket Kingdom (as well as a full version when the game is complete). There will be about 100 people playing, including some press and some internet/gaming names, and whoever is at the top by the end of the playtest will receive thew0rld.com domain name.

If everything goes well, we expect to ship these out next week, as soon as
the next build of the game is complete.

There's no catch - you can talk about the game however or wherever you'd like, and the N-Gage is yours to do with what you will.

-Cypher

So, now I have an interesting delema.  Sure, I didnt actually DO anything, really, to earn the prize, but do you guys think it would actually be safe to send them my mailing address?

[Hanzii]

Send it in.

The QD is a pretty decent phone (as opposed to the original N-Gage) and has a few fine games allready (Tiger Woods is fun on the train).
I'd never buy one, but with the chance to ry out Pocket Kingdoms I'd jump on it.

[Biobanger]

If you don't wanna send your mailing address, you can definetly send mine instead :P

I half expected the winner to get an email just saying "you R teh win!" and nothing else. That's freakin awesome if you actually got something.

[Dmack]

ok, I feel a little bit dirty about this, but I took the liberty of sending in the cracked message, just to see what might actually happen (since no one here seemed interested in running with it.)

This is the message i got back from them a few days ago:

Excellent,

You're the first winning pass into the Pocket Kingdom sneak peek. Send us
your mailing address, you'll receive an N-Gage QD, a $50 pre-paid phone card for a month's service, and a pre-release copy of Pocket Kingdom (as well as a full version when the game is complete). There will be about 100 people playing, including some press and some internet/gaming names, and whoever is at the top by the end of the playtest will receive thew0rld.com domain name.

If everything goes well, we expect to ship these out next week, as soon as
the next build of the game is complete.

There's no catch - you can talk about the game however or wherever you'd like, and the N-Gage is yours to do with what you will.

-Cypher

So, now I have an interesting delema.  Sure, I didnt actually DO anything, really, to earn the prize, but do you guys think it would actually
 be safe to send them my mailing address?

OMG i envy you so much, i'm Dmack from the N-gage forums and i've been watching this thew0rld.com site alot over the past weeks waiting for the new challenges because it has updated since it had that puzzle in the source. The source now says :

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  THERE USED TO BE A PUZZLE HERE, BUT IT GOT OWNED

                                    DING! CONGRATZ

                                                     -->

:(. It was great to see you guys decifer it though well done. I'm trying my hardest to get this pre release, i sent the email hoping that i would win and i left a link to this thread so they could see who actually worked it out. Send your mailing address SurfD they are completely ligit, but if you don't want the game just the qd and 50 $ you can always send the game to me :). lol anyway nice one again guys. If you consider this please contact me dmack4142@ntlworld.com.