…I just posted this to the Unforums Meta forum. I felt it deserved

some blogspace:

I started playing the Haunted Apiary two days before phase 1 completed. Since then I’ve become increasingly involved in the storyline and I’m now actively trying to help solve puzzles. It’s incredible. This is my first ARG but it definitely won’t be my last.

There is one thing that bothers me. The Apiary has become incresingly popular over the last week or so. When we hit our crucial date of August 24th the interest in the ARG exploded. Our wiki went down, the #beekeepers channel is flooded 24/7, and the forums are nearly incomprehensable. I would guess that 70% of the total ARG traffic is trout related info. Most people are being very patient with the newcomers,

however it has become exceedingly difficult to have any meaningful exchange of

speculation.

I used to enjoy cruising the wiki and chatting about my latest idea on irc. Now I cringe at the thought of wading through pages and pages of forum posts to find the one bit of info I haven’t seen before. I know I’m not the only one feeling frustrated.

This brings me to my current point. I am very jealous of the Hunters! As a diversion in what I laughingly call a “dry” period in the Apiary I wandered into the Urban Hunt forum. I read the guide (better than ours by the way) and spent a few minutes in the forum. What I noticed right away was a neat easy-on-the-eyes list of puzzles and topic. The posts were on topic and relevant. It looked like heaven compared to the digital sludge I had been wading through for the past eleven hours or so.

As much as I look forward to the culmination of the ilovebees.com game, I look forward to the next ARG I participate in. Hopefully it won’t be flooded by a mass of Halo fanatics who are more interested in a nonexistant demo disc than they are in solving what has, so far, been a compelling story.

So, Hunters, know that at least one beekeeper has seen your good work and regrets missing the trailhead. Keep working, happy gaming!

-Jay”

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