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Titanfall ARG / Puzzle Marketing Campaign - DetectiveGAF required

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Danny 117

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BraXzy said:
Thanks buddy. My plane leaves tomorrow for Austin! I'm so excited I cannot wait. I wonder what things will happen at the event..
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Should be amazing. Get your controller signed by Vince or someone!

This thread being bumped reminds me, the standby4titanfall prizes should be going out this week :D
 
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MisterBo

Neo Member
BraXzy said:
Thanks buddy. My plane leaves tomorrow for Austin! I'm so excited I cannot wait. I wonder what things will happen at the event..
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Aww man you will get to meet rooster teeth, I know they are gonna be at the launch. Hope its fun,

Danny 117 said:
This thread being bumped reminds me, the standby4titanfall prizes should be going out this week :D
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I hope we get something, otherwise we will never know what the 14 prizes where.
 
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BraXzy

Member
Danny 117 said:
Should be amazing. Get your controller signed by Vince or someone!

This thread being bumped reminds me, the standby4titanfall prizes should be going out this week :D
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That's a pretty cool idea! I'll have to grab something or hope he has a sharpie if I run into him :)

Oh yeah, I wonder what they will be.
 
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BraXzy

Member
I'm still not home so I haven't a clue. I'll have to post an update on how the trip and event went when I get back :)
 
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D4Danger

Unconfirmed Member
I've not had anything. I doubtful I'll get anything from the Titanfall one anyway because the site was crashing while I was doing it. I got the other stuff though so maybe it worked? just wait and see I guess.
 
blazeuk

blazeuk

Member
Not had anything yet either, if it is the game they're unlikely to break the street date to send them out so I guess we won't find out until Friday at the earliest.
 
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MisterBo

Neo Member
blazeuk said:
Not had anything yet either, if it is the game they're unlikely to break the street date to send them out so I guess we won't find out until Friday at the earliest.
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Damn, I was hoping something would come today, because I wanted to digital download the game at midnight. :(
 
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BraXzy

Member
Almost back home. Will write up a mini-post about the trip soon. Anyone got any goodies today from the last prize pool?
 
blazeuk

blazeuk

Member
MisterBo said:
Can't wait to hear what it was like, and I have had nothing, maybe there was no prize for the titanfall page.
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They definitely have prizes planned from the terms they listed, I was somewhat convinced it'd be the game but release date has passed and I would have thought they'd want to get it into people's hands today or even before then. Maybe they never really thought about it though or they only got delivered copies today like the rest of us so rushed to get them out today (they're an outsourced company doing this right?). I already have the game now so I'm hoping if I do get something it'll be something different (or the CE will do!).
 
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Garrett Hawke

Member
Finally able to post! This has been so frustrating being unable to post here. Myself and my friend were doing this once we discovered it, and we figured out everything, bar the Titanfall solution, about 3 hours before anyone posted here. It was really interesting watching it unfold here, as we'd already entered the solutions to the DR3 and Ryse puzzles before the DR3 solution was even found on here.

The most annoying aspect of this entire ARG was the fact that the last puzzle which contradicted the terms and conditions of the competition and was essentially a chance based puzzle. I scrubbed frame by frame through the video, finding the letter N, only to find that the winners had found it by guessing the letter N.

One letter undermined the entire competition and got two people the biggest prizes.

While of course I'm happy with what I got, it absolutely sucks that even after admitting that he won via guessing the letter N the winner was rewarded. Yes, anyone could have done that, so this is a criticism of the design of the final puzzle itself rather than a criticism of the winner. It clearly said in the terms and conditions that it was a 'skill based competition', wherein the entrees who completed the paths using skill would be rewarded. So it sucks that the last puzzle was a one in 24 chance.

One thing I am slightly confused about is how the prizes were assigned... They must have been random as opposed to first come, get the best prize. I definitely entered the solution to the Titanfall puzzle before the person on here who figured it out posted so idk what's going on there. First picture is the time that I saved the PSD I had combined to find the Titanfall solution, I entered the solution before saving the PSD. Second picture is a screenshot of the person who posted the solution to the Titanfall puzzle, accompanied by a third screenshot of the person who won the Titanfall XBO saying that they got the solution '2 minutes' before it was posted on GAF. Screenshots here:
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Therefore if all these times are correct, the XBO must have been randomly assigned rather than given to the first person to enter the correct submission, as I entered mine around 7:15pm while they entered theirs around 7:45pm.

Anyway, hoping the other Titanfall prizes are good! :D
 
blazeuk

blazeuk

Member
I think most of us agree the final puzzle was a bit of a let down turning into a guessing game after the effort the others took, they should have made it 2 letters and it would have made it slow enough to guess that there wouldn't have been much point, other than that it was pretty well done though.
 
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Garrett Hawke

Member
blazeuk said:
I think most of us agree the final puzzle was a bit of a let down turning into a guessing game after the effort the others took, they should have made it 2 letters and it would have made it slow enough to guess that there wouldn't have been much point, other than that it was pretty well done though.
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I agree, the final puzzle was incredibly disappointing and terrible design, unfortunately. Especially after the amount of effort that went into finding all the other solutions, the last one felt particularly cheap. And as for the prize selection, still no idea how they were assigned.
 
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MisterBo

Neo Member
I was thinking, perhaps the Titanfall prize was jut the plain controller, and the DR3 prize was just the sticker for the controller. And we have just assumed that they where both for DR3.
 
blazeuk

blazeuk

Member
MisterBo said:
I was thinking, perhaps the Titanfall prize was jut the plain controller, and the DR3 prize was just the sticker for the controller. And we have just assumed that they where both for DR3.
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They'd have had to merge 2 prize paths for that to work though since no-one got a combination of a controller and a DR3 comic. It'd certainly be an interesting way of going about it but I imagine they'd have stated comics and stickers as the prize rather than the vague 'Xbox items'? The longer the wait the more unlikely it'd be the game I would think though.
 
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Garrett Hawke

Member
MisterBo said:
I was thinking, perhaps the Titanfall prize was jut the plain controller, and the DR3 prize was just the sticker for the controller. And we have just assumed that they where both for DR3.
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I don't think so... I originally thought that too but the fact that they sent the controller + Ryse books separately leads me to think otherwise.
 
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MisterBo

Neo Member
Captain Ninty said:
Perhaps the prizes have already been won just not by anyone on here. There were only 14 I think.
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But they would have closed the page down and none of us would have been able to enter the correct password, surely. Its definitely strange though that we haven't seen anyone get something for it.
 
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Garrett Hawke

Member
Checked the mail, nothing today. I'm confident that I put in the answer before XioB though, and he believes that the XBO he got was from that pool so I should definitely be on the list...
 
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MisterBo

Neo Member
tghm1801 said:
Checked the mail, nothing today. I'm confident that I put in the answer before XioB though, and he believes that the XBO he got was from that pool so I should definitely be on the list...
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Hmmm, I got the email that they used for this whole thing. We could always just email them lol
 
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Danny 117

Member
Woah that's pretty amazing. I'll hold out hope for getting a CE as I live in Belfast so it could take a while to get here :p. Congrats!
 
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BraXzy

Member
I had a feeling the Titanfall Collector's Edition was from the Titanfall prize pool. The Xbox One/USA prize was its own thing and the first I heard about the CE for me was in the YouTube video so I had a feeling it was separate, mine came today, picked it up from the Depot. It struggled to fit in my car! It looks damn good.

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Congrats to anyone else who got it :)
 
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Danny 117

Member
Someone is probably getting the Xbox Console Bundle too from the same pool:

1x Xbox Console Bundle, 14x Xbox Items

So, a Titanfall LE console and 14 copies of the CE, I'm assuming?
 
blazeuk

blazeuk

Member
XiOB won the XB1 from this prize path, just the Xbox items (which now seem to be the CE of the game) to get to people.
 
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BraXzy

Member
Danny 117 said:
Just got a controller in the post!



Best use of a spare 10 minutes in a long time. :L
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Same!

Now I'm really confused. Did some of the Titanfall entries get a controller versus a CE of the game? But that doesn't explain how I got both. What prize pools are these linked to?
 
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MasterLeePhD

Member
BraXzy said:
Same!

Now I'm really confused. Did some of the Titanfall entries get a controller versus a CE of the game? But that doesn't explain how I got both. What prize pools are these linked to?
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So far I've won a OG Xbox One controller with the DR3 decal, Titanfall Collectors Edition and the TF limited edition controller. Entered all the competitions apart from the Ryse as it was closed.

Amazing!
 
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BraXzy

Member
MasterLeePhD said:
So far I've won a OG Xbox One controller with the DR3 decal, Titanfall Collectors Edition and the TF limited edition controller. Entered all the competitions apart from the Ryse as it was closed.

Amazing!
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Has everyone else who got a TF controller also received a TF Collector's Edition? I'm guessing that this is now the situation:
Xbox console bundle. There are two prizes in this pool (Final Page)

This prize pool included the trip to the USA. I believe Danny was the other Xbox winner. So that we know for sure.

1 x Xbox console bundle, 14 x Xbox items (Titanfall Page)

XiOB appears to have won the console from this. The rest of us who entered appear to have got the Collector's Edition. I am guessing that the controllers are part of "items".

Digitally signed artworks (unlimited), 100 x signed comics, 16 x Xbox items (Dead Rising Page)

The Xbox items were the Controller's with the Decal weren't they? I got a signed comic, the online thing is self explanatory.

48 x game artworks, 10,000 codes for in game extras (Ryse Page)

The game artworks were those gorgeous looking leather bound art books for Ryse. The codes are/were online for the in-game shields.
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That covers it unless I am mistaken with the controller?
 
blazeuk

blazeuk

Member
Seems strange, I've not received anything yet, I just assumed they were going to send the CE and the controller out to those who entered the details on the Titanfall path otherwise they'll have given them out in completely random order (which may be the case).
 
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