Long time no see/chat.

It's been many cycles since I was last on here.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Anyone else excited for TR3N: Ares?

I'm currently listening to a leak of the NIN soundtrack. I'm digging it so far 

Man I miss tbise days! Sadly it looks like the days of in-depth ARG viral marketing are a thing of the past 

TRON.dll Wrote:I feel like we were all very *very* spoiled in the year leading up to and coming off of Legacy's release in theaters. The ARG, just about any and all kinds of merch you can imagine, 4 separate videogames.. for Ares we've got a Fortnite cosmetics pack, some Hot Topic shirts, and a $75 light-up popcorn bucket.

I spotted that there seemed to be more promotion in Japan, they had what appeared to be lighted desk pads, wireless chargers, notebooks, hats, a black and red jacket, and keychains. Still nothing in comparison to what was done for Legacy, but more than I saw in the US for Ares.

I found it all in a VR Chat world seemingly sponsored by Disney, promoting the Disney Studio Japan X/Twitter account, and another company Virtual Market. All the items seemed to be tied to giveaways, so I am not sure if there is anyway to buy them if you don't win them, and I've not seen things quite like them in the brief searching I have done.

I've got screenshots of the world and the merch advertised if anyone is interested in them, let me know and i will put forth the effort to post them here. If you can/want to see it yourself, the world will apparently only be live until October 31. It was a pretty cool world with photo ops, and disc battle arena that apparently works, along with screens that play the various trailers when you walk up to them.

You should be able to find it pretty quickly searching for Tron Ares, be sure to search in worlds specifically, or switch to the worlds section of search after searching.

The title of the world is this: ????:????in VR Shibuya 

(Edit: It seems that the decorative and Japanese characters from the name are not supported here, the ?'s are the Japanese characters for Tron:Ares bracketed by blocky L shaped extended ASCII decorative characters)

The thumbnail is mostly red in color, with a bit too low resolution to make out much other than 10.10 Friday and what I know to be a statue of a torn-ified dog on the left side of the thumbnail, but I only know that because i have seen it in the world, not sure its too obvious on the thumbnail.

It will start you in an are where you have to agree to terms of use and select a language, and then makes you move forward past 2 programs that have text bubbles when you approach, and then a light cycle spawns, you need to grab the handles to be taken to the main part of the world, where you can then walk around and interact with whatever you like.

If you are not familiar with VR chat, you can choose to either join the public instance of a world, or in the Actions section directly below the worlds thumbnail you can select New Instance and create an instance that is invite only if you wish to explore alone, once you select the invite option, you will need to select the Join option to be taken to the invite instance. Not that I have ever seen this world with anyone in the public instance, but if you know you want to be alone, an invite instance is the way to do it.