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AllstarSniper32 posted...

CaptainObvius posted...

and if the puzzles were that easy someone would have won the contest years ago.

I watched a couple things about this, and one of the things that people seem to bring up is the driving backwards bit.

You have to remember, you're putting in literally your own irl money into this race. Let's take present day speed runners and people who try out various different ways of doing things in games. Yes, they do try out a crap ton of different ways, but when that way fails, they can just try again. If you fail in this game, you actually lose real life money. Each time. That car you're using, gone. All your equipment, gone. And who knows what people lose in real life besides just money. A lot of people seem to live in slums, if they lose everything, they can't just sell their house to get their money back. Their one possession irl is this game and everything they own is in the game.

Meaning, people are going to be a lot less likely to just try random things to get ahead.

Maybe for the average player. But the IOI was a multi-billion dollar industry, with video game experts and halliday scholars on the payroll. They could afford to do things every which way. What I really don't like, is how everyone knew that specific race was the first puzzle and didn't try anything innovative to solve it. Also, If someone as poor as Parzival could afford to constantly play it, other dedicated hunters would definitely be able to afford it. Especially a pro hunter like aech.
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