Molyneux's Curiosity Offers $77,800 DLC

[Strazdas]

My prediction: Chipping will start slowly by chipping bots that will sit 24/7 chipping it from multi-computer server (somones runing a 1000 virtual boxes isnt that useless now), once it gets closer it will become faster as more bots are put to work and humans start chipping too hoping for random luck. Noone will buy the pickaxe or if it will, it will be a publicity stunt (somone famous doing it for the luls). Evnetually one of the competing bots will win the game because humans are no match for it. The last chips will fly in nano-seconds.

Moral of the story: botting wins social experiments.

 

[EHKOS]

All i Can honestly say to that at the moment is

"What's in the box, Peter, What's in the box!?"

Whatever it is, it's over-hyped.

 

[MintberryCrunch]

Fable: TLC HD Remake or no dice, Molyneux.

Sounds pretty cool, as others have said will probably be someone like Notch buying the chisel as a publicity thing, but some auto-clicker bot will end up getting the overall prize.

 

[The White Hunter]

That is crazy. I can't wait to read what it is on the internet after someone opens it.

I can't wait either. I also want to call whoever buys that diamond chisel a tosspot when they do.

 

[The White Hunter]

All i Can honestly say to that at the moment is

"What's in the box, Peter, What's in the box!?"

Whatever it is, it's over-hyped.

A note saying "£50,000... Really? Are you kidding me? Sucker."

 

[Dfskelleton]

This is pure Genius.
Without any sarcasm, I say that this is genius. Completely crazy, but genius.
I had this amusing idea that whoever opens the black cube will not be able to handle what's inside, as if it induced a mental breakdown.
Also, I found this appropriate (Se7en spoilers):

 

[Aglynugga]

I would love if some random smuck with the base chisel smashed into it and then never told anyone what was inside.
But it'll be something retarded, like a poem or a phrase from some philosopher about the nature of human spirit or curiosity.
This guy is kind of a goon. People always applaud him for his 'amazing' and 'brilliant' ideas...but it really seems to be a case of the 'emperor's new clothes', because this does not seem clever in any way. In fact, this seems incredibly similar to something that has already been done. I will now go link searching and edit it in if I can find it.

 

[Doom972]

I don't know what's inside that cube, but looking at Molyneux's projects in the last few years, I'm pretty sure it'll be disappointing and not worth all the hype.

 

[Saulkar]

I for one am truly intrigued and await the final results of the experiement.

Same here, should be interesting.

Honestly I reckon this is part of his experiment, see how much of a shitstorm the announcement kicks up.

I will have agree with that.

 

[Triforceformer]

I know what's inside that cube. It's the Duke Nukem Forever that Yahtzee played in 2009. BUY THE DAMN DIAMOND CHISEL NOTCH/BRONY GUYS!

 

[DugMachine]

Oh my gosh. This is just bat shit insane but i'd bet 70k that somebody will buy the 70k pick axe.

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Aren't scientists supposed to pay the guinea pigs?

 

[Micalas]

I bet goatse is inside

Ahahahaha. Oh god, I hope so.

Those who are complaining need to calm down though. I know we've all become jaded due to the current state of the industry but anyone with a bit of interest in psychology should find this fascinating. He knows it's an exorbitant amount of money for a leg-up on the competition. That's the point.

Curiosity is itself a very curious thing. With the guarantee of an absence of danger people are more than willing to do almost anything to be able to get a peek at something. The fact that only one person will legitimately see what is in the box means that it's impossible for the person who opened it to prove they opened it or what was actually in there.

Picture the set-up. A black cube in the middle of a white room. It's an easily exploitable image. If I photoshopped the cube out and inserted a *insert item here* you'd have no way to prove that wasn't actually in the cube. Given how much people like to screw with each other on the internet I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of this experiment there were hundreds of thousands of so-called screenshots of what was in the box. The kicker is that I bet they'll all be pictures of different things. You will NEVER have a 100% way of knowing what was in the box unless you opened it. You know that feeling you get when you see people whispering and they refuse to tell you what's going on? This is that amplified because the odds of ever knowing for sure are almost zero.

It's genius.

captcha: do it now!

 

[unoleian]

I think we all know what will be in the damn box.

Spoiler: And it will probably look something like this

Yeah, that looks about right.
Also, I guarantee some entity somewhere will buy that damn chisel, too. Human curiosity is insatiable.

 

[Atmos Duality]

So, Molyneux has turned chipping a cube into some perverse version of the Lottery.
Only the payout isn't known...but regardless of what is actually at the middle, perhaps the real payout is simply bragging rights, and I already know there are sick people out there who are willing to blow thousands of dollars on "DLC" for bragging rights alone (Hello, ZT Online. And numerous other MMOs).

Amusing, but scarcely groundbreaking.

Though I do like the 'cut' of his jib.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

im deffinitly not going to participate but...this is actually genious! im really interested to see how people act!

 

[Baldr]

It'll only be ten minutes before someone gets to the middle and it not going to be anything special. <- Recap of every game he has created.

 

[mdqp]

What if there is nothing inside the box, but the people who paid to raise their chances will never know it since only one is supposed to see what's inside, and so they can't know if someone else got to see it?

I am not saying he would do such a thing, but that would be such a wonderful scam... ;p

 

[grigjd3]

Officially cracked.

 

[RJ Dalton]

The purpose of this experiment is not to make money.
That's just a bonus.

I think Mr. Molyneux may actually be insane. The Mr. Teatime sort of insane, in that he doesn't see other people in the same way that you or I do.

Nice Terry Pratchett allusion. He's really just Mr. Teatime if he joined the Accountants Guild rather than the Assassins Guild.

Funny thing, I was talking to a friend and she was saying how Black & White had an extremely obvious bug that could totally screw up your computer and, given how much he overhypes his games, she was thinking that this might just be proof that Molyneux is bitter of people and wants to hurt them in ways that he couldn't be arrested for.