Curiosity - What's Inside the Cube Nears the Final Layers

[knight steel]

DON'T FINISH IT WHATEVER YOU DO-IT'S THE ARC OF THE COVENANT YOU'LL DIE
You fools why did you ignore me now look at what you have done!!!
But in all seriousness I have no idea what's inside.

 

[SmugFrog]

for everybody out there who couldn't be bothered to help chip away the first 272 layers, I expect the final 50 layers to be a much more compelling objective.

You completely missed one of the most interesting parts of this story. Molyneux is ending his "experiment" early because people are losing interest in it, and it was going to keep going for a few more years. Possible longer as I'm sure interest would continue to fizzle out. They removed several layers to shorten it.

This seems to be a very Molyneux-way of gathering attention for this before it has fizzled out. Waving his arms wildly and announcing to the world, "HEY! Remember this crazy thing! Let me (over) hype it some more!"

 

[crepesack]

A note saying "A secret." Then whenever someone asks what was inside the cube you say "a secret".

 

[Olas]

Why would anyone spend money on this? Why? I downloaded the app just to see what all the hype was about, after 20 minutes of breaking blocks I realized just how maddeningly stupid it was. Whoever wins will probably be someone who waited till the last few hours to start tapping anyway.

It had better be something genuinely amazing, like a cure for cancer or Half-Life 3.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

From the folds of her gown, she lifted a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side. She turned it and Paul saw that one side was open - black and oddly frightening. Paul slowly put his hand into the box. He first felt a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep...

"What's in the box?"

"Pain."

Is that... dune?

Going with dune.

OT: It'll be a new hat for fable 3. And a cripplingly profound sense of wasted time.

 

[fletch_talon]

I expect the contents of the box to end world hunger, and bring peace to the universe. It will discover aliens and alternate reality, and usher in a utopia... Or it could all just be one big let down; a note with the words, "Was it worth it?" hastily scribbled down onto it.

Personally I think it would go more like this.
Video complete with alternate cube contents and player reactions.