Mystery Missions - my beta experience

By toddj   Dec 7, 2009 12:18 am
Tagged as #mysterygoogle #mysterymissions

MysteryGoogle seems to be trying to lose the Google name and shift to something that is completely their own.  They launched their beta today, and I signed up for it to see just how everything seems to work.

A few things have changed since they started this new mystery missions site.  First, you no longer have to enter in your own mission if you want to find missions.  You simply go to the page, log in, and hit “request mission” (or “submit mission” if you’re feeling brave). From there it will display a mission from an agent before you and you can click “accept” or “pass” to display a new mission.  So far accept doesn’t work for me, it logs me out.  From what I can tell this is a wide issue and I’m not the only one.  So for now, I can click pass and look at different missions. With this bug seems to come another bug, though.  Since missions can’t be accepted, the majority of the missions tend to keep going.  This may or may not be a desirable thing for you, but for most I would have to say that this is a flaw.

The next thing that’s changed is the fact that you can view and, soon, manage your profile.  I’m not sure what their plans are for the future for this feature, but maybe they’ll have public profiles where you can choose to display your agent number, phone number, and email.

My ruling: Sign up now, but don’t give out your phone number when filling out the mission submitting form if you don’t have unlimited texting.  Your mission has potential to be floating around for a while from what I’ve experienced.  Hopefully they’ll be able to fix that relatively soon, but in the mean time: feel free to take on the missions assigned to you by other mystery agents :)