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Nov 3, 2001, 12:09am

Anyone heard of Majestic or have ever played it? I just played the demo
earlier today and this is what happens:

You sign-up at a site and provide your e-mail and phone number

about 10 minutes later my phone rings (yes for real this isnt a story). I
pick up, a women starts talking, it kinda surprises me how real it sound
except for the fact the voice doesnt respond to what i say. In a shortened
version this is what the recording says: Hey you signed up for the demo of
Majestic right? well im supposed to tell you this site <site snipped>. See
ya.

I go to the site and click on the demo install button and a screen flashes
up showing lines of installation code and so on in a DOS like window (its
fake dont worry)

Then the site keeps displaying a page not found.

5 minutes later the phone rings. The lady that told me about the site is
talking franticly saying they're after her and she hopes i didnt go to the
site. The voice skips a few seconds and dies out.

I get an e-mail saying they hoped i liked the demo version and give me a
link for free shipping if i order now.

Pretty cool huh? Well i bought it.


This is like no game i've played before. It incorporates many internet tools
including e-mail, phone, fax, AOL Instant Messaging, and internet search
engines.

I'll give you an example of a typical day of playing the game called
Majestic (made by EA if your wondering):

(this was copied directly off of the website, www.majesticthegame.com )

Tuesday - 8:15AM

You're reading your morning email when you receive a message from a
mysterious woman. She's scared; her co-worker is missing and she thinks
people are after her. In her email she's included a link to an online news
story of the missing co-worker. Using your Majestic Alliance Application,
you confirm her story by finding additional news feeds about the
disappearance.

9:05AM

There's a fax from the mystery woman waiting for you when you get to work.
It is a fax of a photo taken from the inside of a warehouse, along with a
note saying that this may be important. Unfortunately, you can't make heads
or tails of it, so you file it away for now.

6:22PM

When you get home, you go immediately online. An anonymous informant
contacts you by instant messaging; he asks if you've had a chance to examine
the photo yet. Checking your Majestic Alliance Application archive, you find
a digital copy of the photo. Examining the photo more closely, you discover
a company name on the back wall of the warehouse.

7:49PM

After dinner, you use the Majestic search engine to research the company
name you've discovered. The search results in a list of relevant links. Just
as you are about to click on the first link, your cell phone rings. You
answer it and a stranger tells you he has a message from Majestic for you.
He then proceeds to inform you that he knows you've been talking to the
mystery woman. With a menacing pause, he warns you to stop and hangs ups.

8:50PM

Undaunted, you return to explore a promising web site, but you are denied
access to a section of the site. You then remember a memo with the same name
as the section of the site. Looking the memo up in your archive, you find
the word "serendipity" scrawled in the margin. You type the word in for the
password and amazingly, are given access to a video of a top-secret
government meeting discussing alien contact.

9:05PM

Excited, you immediately email the mystery woman about your find. You
spend the rest of the night chatting online with other Majestic players just
like you, comparing notes and discussing the various clues you have
uncovered. You finally fall asleep wondering what Majestic will bring you
tomorrow.

Ok well i think i need to shutup but basicly that is what happens, yes for
real, in a game of Majestic. They include tons of "episodes" of mystery
type challenges to solve. Searching through the Majestic search engine which
displays real pages along with fake pages (that are made for the game).
Getting on AIM and getting mysterius intsant messges from frantic people who
are trying to get your help, recieving faxes of secret documents, and
getting e-mail from characters in the game (i think you can reply to them
but im not sure). along with voice messages, streaming video (sometimes
secreatly recorded from peoples webcams hehe), and audio.

Ok well im not tying to advertise or anythign but i just thought you'd liek
to see what a cool game this is. Please give me some feedback.

-Cozmo

Nov 3, 2001, 2:13am

I hadn't heard of this game before, but to me it seems too intruding to your life... An important rule of role-playing games and
games in general is that you must know when you're playing your character, and when you're yourself, and never mix up the 2... It's
an ambitious project and I'm glad some deelopers try to make innovative games instead of doom-likes, wargames etc... but this one
seems to go too far, it could be 'dangerous'. Well it's my opinion at least.

Fox Mc Cloud

Nov 3, 2001, 12:38pm

and if you didnt know you can pause the game so it doesnt call whenever you
like..you have total control over how it contacts you..and it doesnt call a
billion times a day...but i respect your opinion even though i think the
game makes it more realistic and fun. The Devs of the game wanted to "leave
you guessing where the game ends and reality begins". The only thing you
have to remember is to not let little kids answer the phone who might not
know that it is a game, and there is no kids in my home so thats not a
problem, and i tell my parents about it. So the point of the game is to make
it like your actually a detective or person trying to solve the mystery.

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Nov 3, 2001, 1:22pm

"You must be 18 or over to play Majestic".

-Agent1

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Nov 3, 2001, 1:34pm

uuuummm....and your point is?

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Nov 3, 2001, 1:38pm

The point is, that only adults are to play the game because most kids would
have mysterious phone calls from people their parents wouldn't know.
Therefore resulting in a lawsuit to the Majestic company, and so fourth.

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Thanks,
Ricky Lipe

Degtur Solutions at http://www.degtur.com
Stuff-X at http://www.stuff-x.com


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Nov 3, 2001, 1:41pm

ok let me correct you...to play the demo you have to be 18...the game does
not have a set age limit

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Nov 3, 2001, 1:41pm

and im not stupid enough to not tell my parents

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Nov 3, 2001, 1:56pm

Sorry son, but you have to be 18 to play the game. It would make more sense
if you had to be 18 to play the game not the demo, rather than the demo not
the game.

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Thanks,
Ricky Lipe

Degtur Solutions at http://www.degtur.com
Stuff-X at http://www.stuff-x.com


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Nov 3, 2001, 7:49pm

Would be fun subscribing a friend to the game with their email and phone number, they'll think it's real... lol

Fox Mc Cloud

"brandon" <brandon at fake-email-adresses.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3be40f8d$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> and if you didnt know you can pause the game so it doesnt call whenever you
> like..you have total control over how it contacts you..and it doesnt call a
> billion times a day...but i respect your opinion even though i think the
> game makes it more realistic and fun. The Devs of the game wanted to "leave
> you guessing where the game ends and reality begins". The only thing you
> have to remember is to not let little kids answer the phone who might not
> know that it is a game, and there is no kids in my home so thats not a
> problem, and i tell my parents about it. So the point of the game is to make
> it like your actually a detective or person trying to solve the mystery.

Nov 3, 2001, 10:29pm

Er... it should have the same usage policy as the demo.
--
SW Chris
Eagle Scout, Philosopher, Peacemaker, and... Kung Fu Master?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

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Nov 3, 2001, 10:30pm

=P I've played the demo a long time ago, and there's a friendly reminder
during the signup process that signing someone else up is in violation of
some laws and will get you some jail time.
--
SW Chris
Eagle Scout, Philosopher, Peacemaker, and... Kung Fu Master?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

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Nov 4, 2001, 1:21pm

hehe, can put Bill Gate's number...

KAH

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Nov 9, 2001, 9:47am

Yeah, I've played the whole pilot episode... beta tested it. :)
You can opt out of the phone contacts, they'll send you the phone =
conversations via realplayer and other means.
Overall, an interesting game, and the puzzles aren't lame either... some =
of them will take you a while to solve as you go searching all over the =
net for the clues you need. What makes it even more realistic is that =
some of the characters in the game are actual people in American 20th =
century history. Even the name Majestic was/is real.

Aine
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Nov 9, 2001, 2:26pm

ya.....like i';ve said before you can control how they contact you and when.

I actually bought it a few days ago and im playign Episode 0 the Pilot
Episode and it's very intresting...i love it

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Imagine a moral code rooted in beauty, love, pleasure, and liberation
instead of order, control, repression, and fear.
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