This is a very interesting concept. Consider me in.

Wait I take that back considering how much porn I go to. Dunno what info they're sending to who, really.

I didn't hit the link, but I'm just wondering exactly what this is?

What is that a picture of?

Cool concept. I remember something sorta along these lines that my friend showed me. It was a website where you register a username and then you can challenge other uses and if you win a challenge you get some kind of prize and you do this to move up in rank. I don't really remember it too well, but this reminded me of it.

Sounds like Freeride (get paid to surf), except that you're doing it for experience points instead of pennies.

It's an interesting idea, but I can imagine that users will be provoking others to go to goatse and trojan-infected sites. "COME HERE FOR LOTS OF FREE EXPERIENCE (in exchange for your cc#)!!!11"

I liked the automated "MMO" idea when it was called Progress Quest.

Its called Gametrailers. you get EXP from watching/commenting/giving thumbs. and earn GTD to buy real items with.

Am I the only one thinking "market tracking / spyware", or is that paranoid in the extreme? =P

This sounds exactly like half of the facebook applications I've vowed never to install. :)

So... what, someone took an idea like, say, Gaiaonline and turned it into general net browsing with some RPG like features?

Hmm, no, sounds more like a game of Internet Tag, except with some extra numbers. Eh... let's see what they make of it. At least it's a new idea, I'm just not how excited I can be about it, especially if it's just culled up to generate traffic to sites for some bucks.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahhaahahahhaahhaahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

*Cough* HahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

I played it for a while and then got bored. A game just isn't a game when you're playing it by accident.

"YES! Now that we've completed the noble quest: The Google we can now move on to save the Internet.

Does everyone have the quest: hotmail.com? Ok. I've equipped the 'Clicker of Mozilla' and lets do this shit."

~ Greatest. Game. Ever.

@superbabyproject: Very true. Now, back to Crysis :)

@TheBoxNinja: I've got +40 porn browsing

slightly interesting concept, but nowhere near the place it would need to be for me to really get into it.

but.. hey, games are certainly evolving, hey?

thats the exciting part.

@Rurik: AWESOME! I want you on my forum! Together we shall save the internet from The Internet Explorers! (gasp!)

We shall go on a "safari" trip to catch the mystical "Firefox". Most of our crew consists of "explorers of the internet" who love "opera" style music. They plan to capture the mystical beast with their "net before they 'scape" to safety. After the catch they plan to eat "mo' zilla!". It should also be noted they (The party) collected enough exp points to level up and 38 gold a piece.

*Zilla IS a plant
**Catch the "subtle" hints and laugh some...
***Scape is part of a plant or something

i tried it out over the last week and found it very boring. It's a good concept but it's not passive at all. While you earn points passively, you still have to put the effort in using mines and tagging people. Not to mention learning how to play the game.

At the end of the day I should be either browsing or playing games, it's not the same idea as mixing education with gaming as this game is just a distraction from browsing.

@NeoAkira: I think That is chore wars. @yazan: I a bit disappointed that you do have to do stuff. and you are right I should just play a real game or should just browse the web.

I would be cool if you could play and not do anything, I will check it out now an see how i can waste more time not doing university work.

What?

Sounds like a very clever way of getting people to opt-in to spyware. Read your EULA carefully, people.

Is that an Antlion?

It sounds like spyware, just like Dunetiget said.
That picture also looks kinda like a rip-off of Infermon from Digimon.... but maybe I'm just too obsessed about Digimon.

@Monsterdog:
Nope. Sounded pretty much like a way to track your surfing habits for profit, and make you happy to let them do so. Count me out.

Chibot Ultra Battle (a chat turn based fighter) did this sort of, where different websites had enemies hidden in their code that the program would recognize.

Like a turn based game that no one plays but still goes on... Animal Crossing.

We have things like this already... easy example: [www.gaiaonline.com] which could pretty much be described by the description in the article.

Why can't people do something with out over aggrandizing it or pretending it is more original than it is? Stand by what you do with your product, not what you can pretend it is before it exists.

@Thassodar:

Who cares about what porn you're looking at? Think of all the experience points you get for going to xtube!! :O

Sounds kind of like Eve Online, except you actually have to do at least *something* in this game to level up.

I'm pretty sure there was something identical to this in an article in Edge over a year ago...

Do you get exp points for just refreshing a page over and over? If so, we're going to see some mad grinding soon enough.

I've been "playing" this for about a week now (and no, I don't have any invites), and I find the concept interesting. It's essentially social-bookmarking with RPG elements. I've actually found some decent new sites on some of the "missions" posted...and then I tripped a mine that some asshat left on Fark.

...what?

...Eh?

Hey what is that picture from?
Kind of neat.

That picture is a St. Nick; St. Nicks attach to a user and abort one effort by that user to deploy a mine.

So, since there's a bunch of haters here. I just wanted to say that this game has actually turned out to be pretty sweet.

This may actually be good, but it sounds like the product of a grad student roundtable. Not that that's bad, it's just usually overly theoretical and relatively useless.