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I do not appreciate B.Net Group solicitation. If you ignore this and send me an invitation anyway, I will block communications with you.
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: Dream053
Posted by: Wolverfrog
It's interesting. It could be a hoax, but who knows?
People who use 'whois' sites know. ARG websites, not just for the Halo franchise, but for any MGS game, have never been registered under anything but the name of the Microsoft Corporation. This website is not, and is therefor not run by Microsoft or its affiliates.
It's a hoax.
Really? Well, maybe Bungie wanted to keep you from knowing for certain it was an ARG until it went live; they could be using an employees IP.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, to be honest. If they wanted to keep people from knowing if it was an ARG until it went live, it wouldn't even be visible. IRIS was completed but wasn't visible until after IRIS began on Bungie.net with Adjutant Reflex.
Also, the link to I Love Bees also originated here on Bungie.net.
This website came out of nowhere and has already been active for quite some time. Also, it isn't an employee's IP, it's a registration via proxy, which means that they went through a domain registration company who registers it for them to prevent people from getting their personal information.
It wouldn't make sense for Microsoft to not follow their usual registration protocols now, and not follow suit for their others.
MS isn't in the business of promoting the confusion about truth vs hoax when it comes to this ARG stuff. If an ARG were to start, we'd know it, because it would show up here first, which this has not.
It is very obviously a hoax.