If I could say one thing about this: it's good in theory.
In theory, all ARMYs want to cherish good memories of Bangtan and their achievements over the years. It's not like we're not already doing that, there are accounts in different platforms making content lists, wikis, databases, and even websites. There are abundant sources of past events.
Now, Big Hit wants to make it a game? Officially? IDK what they're doing and then they announced this ARMYPEDIA thing out of nowhere. I was hyped at first, especially because of the giant QR codes billboard placed in 7 different cities all over the world. We're to work together to finish the puzzle! Fun! ... Until it's not.
They mentioned that this event will run for 4 weeks and there are 2080 pieces of puzzles to find. It means for 4 weeks we have to find, scan, answer question and make post for each QR code averaging in 70 codes a day. Who actually have time for that?!?!?
There's also an offline event for ARMYs, which... IDK maybe involves activities like finding the codes in the wilderness or something.
In practice, I was already overwhelmed since day 1. I don't know how many codes ARMYs found & shared in day 1 only, but it felt like hundreds of codes were just flying before my eyes. They're all over my twitter timeline, on instagram, on different websites, on YouTube, just ... everywhere. Day 1 people were still competitive and many actually did the task dilligently. But then, the site began to get cluttered with spam and low quality posts, people are complaining about the questions, and I think many just gave up (or never start like me!).
The next days were worse. They seem to realize that there aren't enough time to get ARMYs to solve this huge puzzle, so they began to give out a ton of codes in one post. It's crazy and very overwhelming. Also I'm just tired of seeing QR codes and I have short attention span. I'm so ready for this to be over already so we can move on to different things. Because like.... what do we get out of this? What reward is behind this or what the purpose of the program isn't exactly clear, so other than points and ranks among thousands of ARMYs out there who are playing the game... what do we get? I mean if it has something to do with the upcoming comeback, I might consider participating. Almost every recent post on ARMYPEDIA twitter has more negative responses than positive ones. Everyone basically just want it to stop by now.
Namjoon posting on twitter telling us to write about our days on ARMYPEDIA plus the upcoming ARMY Run event probably will boost participation a little, but I honestly don't see how everyone will stay on board with this game/whatever until the end. I personally will just sit this one out entirely. I'd rather dedicate my time and energy to see new episodes of BTS Run, see BTS doing new stuff, focus on comeback announcements, plan my trip for LY shows, etc. I already don't have enough time as it is.
In theory, all ARMYs want to cherish good memories of Bangtan and their achievements over the years. It's not like we're not already doing that, there are accounts in different platforms making content lists, wikis, databases, and even websites. There are abundant sources of past events.
Now, Big Hit wants to make it a game? Officially? IDK what they're doing and then they announced this ARMYPEDIA thing out of nowhere. I was hyped at first, especially because of the giant QR codes billboard placed in 7 different cities all over the world. We're to work together to finish the puzzle! Fun! ... Until it's not.
They mentioned that this event will run for 4 weeks and there are 2080 pieces of puzzles to find. It means for 4 weeks we have to find, scan, answer question and make post for each QR code averaging in 70 codes a day. Who actually have time for that?!?!?
There's also an offline event for ARMYs, which... IDK maybe involves activities like finding the codes in the wilderness or something.
In practice, I was already overwhelmed since day 1. I don't know how many codes ARMYs found & shared in day 1 only, but it felt like hundreds of codes were just flying before my eyes. They're all over my twitter timeline, on instagram, on different websites, on YouTube, just ... everywhere. Day 1 people were still competitive and many actually did the task dilligently. But then, the site began to get cluttered with spam and low quality posts, people are complaining about the questions, and I think many just gave up (or never start like me!).
The next days were worse. They seem to realize that there aren't enough time to get ARMYs to solve this huge puzzle, so they began to give out a ton of codes in one post. It's crazy and very overwhelming. Also I'm just tired of seeing QR codes and I have short attention span. I'm so ready for this to be over already so we can move on to different things. Because like.... what do we get out of this? What reward is behind this or what the purpose of the program isn't exactly clear, so other than points and ranks among thousands of ARMYs out there who are playing the game... what do we get? I mean if it has something to do with the upcoming comeback, I might consider participating. Almost every recent post on ARMYPEDIA twitter has more negative responses than positive ones. Everyone basically just want it to stop by now.
Namjoon posting on twitter telling us to write about our days on ARMYPEDIA plus the upcoming ARMY Run event probably will boost participation a little, but I honestly don't see how everyone will stay on board with this game/whatever until the end. I personally will just sit this one out entirely. I'd rather dedicate my time and energy to see new episodes of BTS Run, see BTS doing new stuff, focus on comeback announcements, plan my trip for LY shows, etc. I already don't have enough time as it is.
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