I'm Looking For 3024 People

"Indeed takes a lot of time to create codes and puzzles, i know that because i've been creating ARGs for years now, some much more complex and demanding than this one. All of them were free. Charging this amount of money for a black screen, sound of rain and AI-generated voices is just ludicrous. But it gets really offensive when the goal of the puzzle is "make 3000 people buy our game, that is the solution". that is not a puzzle, not even a challenge, it's just a scam. They did put some work in the website, videos and images, and that is deserving of credit. I was actually liking it a lot before figuring out what was the actual way of "beating" this ARG. Never seen something like this before. Trying to manipulate your community to sell the game for you pretending it would be an "accomplishment". If the game was good, it would sell this amount of copies as a consequence, not a demand. Makes absolutely no sense."

— Cellbit, The game's Discord server

I'm Looking For 3024 People
"We need to solve the puzzle, but first, give me money!"
Genre(s): "Adventure" Puzzle Platform(s): PC Android Release Date: February 3, 2023 Discontinuation: Around May 24, 2024 (on Steam and Microsoft store) Developer(s): Bakodun Game Studios Publisher(s): Bakodun Game Studios

"I'm Looking For 3024 People" is a video game that was released on the stores Steam, Microsoft Store, Epic Games and Google Play Store. It is made to be an Alternate reality game (ARG).

Why It Can't Find 3024 People

1. The game costs money despite being an ARG, that tend to be free-to-play.
2. The game right off the bat announces itself as an ARG, which just removes the mystery factor from it.
3. The game tries to hard to be "scary" but fails miserably.
4. When you start the game, a message tells you to go to a website called "Frankcomputer.online" that's laughably bad.
   • For starters, it is not actually necessary to have the game in order to get to the website.
   • Entering the "the mission" tab leads you to a video of some guy talking with an AI voice and a lot of misspelled stuff like "diggits."
   • There are random folders with images of people that were edited so the images look old and photoshopped the eyes out.
   • There is a tab with cameras of random locations in Turkey, that are all stolen from a Turkey goverment website.
     • In-fact, one of them has a black square over that website's watermark.
5. The game itself is just a black screen, where you press buttons to move but can only use sound and instructions to know where you are going, which shows that the creator is lazy enough not to program actual graphics.
6. Terrible sound design that tries too hard to sound edgy; all you hear are stock rain sound effects, "scary" music and, most insultingly, generic AI voices talking.
   • Not to mention, the voices often do misspellings.
7. At one point, the game stops giving instructions, so now it is practically impossible to keep going due to the game not having graphics.
8. You then need to enter a Discord server that's also laughably stupid.
   • You first need to link your Steam account with the game along with the other people to access a channel to complete the first step of the ARG, which means that in order to complete that step, the developer must get $15,120, because the game's price is $5.
     • This is not even counting the fact that the game's price before was higher.
   • After completing the game's maze, you get an image with 3024 codes (which you can actually just see by entering the game's files), everyone of the 3024 people have to write one at Wednesday at 8 PM, and have 10 minutes to do so, however, there is no "claiming" system, so you just have to be sure you don't pick the same code as someone else, this means that people must put 5.04 messages per second for 10 minutes straight, and all of them have to be unique. This is completely impossible because the rate limit of a Discord server is 5 messages every 5 seconds.
   • In the second step (which doesn't require the first step beforehand), a bot in a voice channel streams a computer with 35 squares that have letters and numbers at the bottom, people need to type corresponding letter or number to make the line go up, but if there is no messages for a time, they will go down. Again, this is completely impossible to beat because so many messages so quickly will slow down the entire server.
9. In the Steam page there was a page called "watch the community play", that features a bunch of streamers playing, however, it seems like they forgot to actually watch the videos, as they all just make fun out of the game and call it an scam.
10. The developer of the game is a whiny liar that doesn't take criticism.
    • They said to people to keep trying when they couldn't complete the second step of the ARG, and claimed that they actually tested it and all.
    • They kept lowering the price of the game, desperately trying to get more people to buy it.
    • They kept putting fake reviews in the Steam page so it looks like the game is liked, when it isn't.
    • They tried making a tournament where people would win money by completing the game, however, this was removed from the game's website and abandoned.
    • After YouTuber Jauwn made a video about this game, the developer tried to sue him, which shows they can't take criticism.
    • After the developer sued Jauwn, they tried putting him and other YouTubers that criticised the game as characters from it without their permission, and claimed the videos were part of the game.
    • they even said that Jauwn's video is a "Streisand effect", only making their game more popular, but it was actually the opposite.

Qualities That Found 3024 People

1. The concept of the game is good despite being badly executed.
2. Due to how badly made the game is, it can do some unintentional comedy.

Aftermath

After the game released, Twitch streamer Cellbit played the game with his chat, but he ended up disliking it and saying people to refund it. Later, YouTuber Jauwn made a video saying how the game is a scam, to which the developer responded by literally suing Jauwn, however, they weren't succesful. Then, the weird cameras from the website stopped working, possibly due to a request. The Discord bot with the minigame was shut down, making the game not being able to be beaten anymore. The developer started insulting anyone that joined the server, posting memes on it, and banning anyone that says anything negative. Finally, the game was removed from Steam and Microsoft store, and the developer just disappeared, ending the ARG in a sour note.

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