Or how about maybe even 4 months from now when there is "nothing left to do" in Destiny but wait for the next DLC or release?

I for one am extremely glad they didn't timegate it like that.

But then, I was a day one raider, and proud owner of a shiny new toy. So Im kind of the Destiny 1%, I realise.

I hadn't touched the raid or seen any "non-marketing" info about the raid prior to the puzzle/ARG. A good puzzle or hunt of any kind has always deeply intrigued me. There was no telling where it would lead. I had hoped this wasn't leading back into the new Raid, merely a few days after it released. Lo and behold that is right where it was going. I had participated in the out of game stuff which was absolutely not spoilery, and I wasn't about to just stop wondering or caring about this puzzle. In the moment I wasn't going to just quit and not keep going. Blind or not I decided I needed to see where this was going in game, the payoff. So I was watching someone live in the raid in an unknown place at an unknown checkpoint.

-why couldn't this puzzle have led back into a play space already known by nearly anyone that has played the game up until this point (Vault of Glass, Crota, Rasputin level, etc.)? Or could the puzzle, as is, have taken place a month from now when an even larger majority of folks have had the chance to raid a time or 3? Or how about maybe even 4 months from now when there is "nothing left to do" in Destiny but wait for the next DLC or release?

Shouldn't the SIM site have been updated by now? Generally with these out of game puzzles there tends to be a clear resolution, be that within "the story" or outside of it.
Did we miss something along the way? Could there be more to this down the road?

The cursor still just hangs and blinks at "Local resources insufficient to process data. Increase resources by combining processing keys with 7 other nodes, per Forwarding Protocol."
Technically we have already combined nodes, yet there is no progression in the SIM site.
Once you have combined keys and nodes and progressed through the in game portion of the on going puzzle does the SIM site update and progress past the last directive? (this is all tied to your b-net log in so there should be a way for the system to recognize what you have and have not done in game)

A small blurb in the Weekly Update is ok, but doesn't answer any of the hard questions. Is it totally complete? Why hasn't SIM updated? Besides loot/the fun of the hunt, why were we doing what we were doing (Rasputin pulling strings, SIVA directive, Clovis Bray research)?
Was this all manufactured as a marketing/PR stunt so that they would have something to talk about at TwitchCON?

Plus a guaranteed Exotic Engram juat for starting the quest, which is nice I guess.

I could go ahead and do it on my own (or with my Warlock buddy), but I'd still need to find a Titan (and possibly Warlock) at the same step as me, which makes things a little more complicated.

I feel like this has been a great ARG/Questline in general, but the fireteam restrictions are quite inconvenient. Especially considering that as people complete the quest, the pool of available players will shrink. I know you can buy a Replica Engine, but it seems to start at the second stage of the quest, so you can't go back and help anyone on the earlier portions?

Edit: Grumble grumble etc. Still an awesome little secret, and I love that it was something that could be worked on (almost) from the get-go, rather than timegated for the sake of extending playtime.

Now for the Fireteam portion...

Must. Get.

The OwlSector ARG page http://owlsector.bungie.net has a link to the following page https://www.bungie.net/en/net/sim when you click on the little numbers in the upper left corner (8) or so digits.

This seems to be some kind of siva terminal showing part of a message to be decoded. Now it seems like this relates back to the Owl Sector thing from last week, which, needless to say, has ended, so this may all be for nothing. Still a fun game?

-OFT

The subreddit's been poring over all of the data, and Datto has taken it and performed almost all of the steps. Some neat stuff, but a bit too much fanfare for one gun...