TLE: META, OT, and Social Interactions-Responses

[OOG] Video

macklinvinger@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:53:26 +0000

i am saw this video.. yes the video is very good
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[META] Hellos & Introductions

Candiluu@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:41:46 +0000

I am looking into TLE and Find 815 for a graduate class in Alternate Reality Gaming at the University of Texas at Dallas. If any of you would be willing to discuss your experiences with either of the completed LOST iterations, please message me.

[OoG][OT] Michael RETURNS !! God damn it !

thebruce@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:45:41 +0000

but the Michael photoshop is so darn good...! :shock:
:)

[OoG][OT] Michael RETURNS !! God damn it !

thebruce@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:44:39 +0000

Ah, you do know these are photoshopped, don't ya?

[OoG][OT] Michael RETURNS !! God damn it !

thebruce@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:49:27 +0000

Check out the new photo of Boone from LOST I mean Ian Somerhalder
the direct link:
http://www.celebrityfury.com/photo-of-boone-from-lost-ian-somerhalder-30.htm

muHAHA! :D

[META] The Lost Experience and Lost Viewers

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:54:35 +0000

I in the end got turned off by it since they did not do a good job. There was one point where i gave up. I think it was when the candy came into play of the Apollo bars. Events did not go down the way it was supposed to and I was sick of the advertising since it was not being used in a creative way that impacted the story. If I would have made it through the whole game I would have possibly watched. They should have connected the show and the game more together if they wanted viewers or at least have a satisfying game.

The only time I felt the old arg feeling was watching the tape of Blake at Comic-con. You could feel the energy but with a lack of real puzzles, phone calls, and just pointing and clicking without thinking the game stunk

[PMs] Post-Game Chat with the PMs

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:23:00 +0000

can someone arrange a real post game chat seems the guy knows a little about arg and was introduced a bit into it but it would be great for the community to get to pick his brain.

[META] The Lost Experience and Lost Viewers

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:24:35 +0000

I'm still a bit surprised that the people who dropped the show mid-way through the second season weren't at all coaxed back by the Lost Experience.

There were a handful of people who played TLE who didn't watch the show, as there were a huge amount of fans who watched the show who didn't play the game. I half lurked, the game really turned me off with the full force of "watch our commericals". Also, keep in mind, at the beginning, the show creators kept saying over and over that the two were not dependant on each other - that you did not have to watch the show to play, and that there would not be anything in the game that would strongly affect the show. The only thing that I saw that did really affect the show over-all was they gave the numbers meaning {I know many many people who watch the show who did not even watch to lurk or hear beans about the game - i am still hoping we get the numbers meaning in show as well, but that is a different topic}. By saying that they were seperate, it didn't fully encourage all fans that they "had to play" or likewise promise any answers to any discouraged/disgruntled fans.

and again, i point up to my ratings post - we don't really know if the game affected ratings, the ratings poll doesn't help us see if those way-ward fans came back or not. All we know is that the nielsen familes decided to watch soemthing else on the season premier night.

[META] The Lost Experience and Lost Viewers

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:07:49 +0000

I agree the Lost Experience had to drive eyeballs to the sponsor sites. If that was all they wanted - not to lose viewers, or rather to keep existing fans entertained and the story fresh, then I suppose they succeeded. I'm still a bit surprised that the people who dropped the show mid-way through the second season weren't at all coaxed back by the Lost Experience.

[META] The Lost Experience and Lost Viewers

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:09:07 +0000

So, just how successful was the Lost Experience if it didn't help the show increase the number of viewers?

It can be considered quite successful, if their goal was something other than increased viewership.

I'd have to dig up the pre-publicity press articles, but I'm pretty sure they specifically said they had no such ambitions, and were only doing it to give something back to the fans. Of course, that's probably just good public relations talking.

On the other hand, the sponsors probably did have their own goals, such as increased hits to the Jeep Compass website and forcing us to watch customer testamonials to the glories of broadband internet. Some players signed up with Monster.com just to access job descriptions they thought might be in game. These are the metrics that are easiest to measure, but probably don't directly impact ABC or the producers of LOST.

The long term benefit is in how people engage with a TV show as a brand, not how many passively watch.

[META] The Lost Experience and Lost Viewers

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:40:55 +0000

I'll start with a question : how are ratings found?

http://www.nielsenmedia.com/whatratingsmean/

The way that Nielsen Media Research finds out about who is watching is to measure what a sample of television viewers are watching. For our national ratings estimates, we use a sample of more than 5,000 households, containing over 13,000 people who have agreed to participate. Since there are over 99 million households with TVs in the U.S., it might seem that a sample of 5,000 is just not big enough to represent the nation.

Okay ARGers, which TLE players are nielsen viewers who dropped the show. come on, speak up!!! it makes a difference!!!

My issue with this concept that the game did or did not affect ratings is that really you need to keep in mind that the game targets a certain type of person, namely gamers of some form, who may or may not be what i would assume is a rather small population of nielsen.

[META] The Lost Experience and Lost Viewers

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:59:28 +0000

The ratings and total viewers of the Lost season 3 premiere matched those of the season 2 finale. Still, the show was down 25% from the season 2 premiere:

Meanwhile, several news outlets have made note of the fact that the Lost season-three premiere was down 25 percent from its season two debut. The episode, which aired Wednesday, October 4, was watched by 18.9 million compared to 23.5 million in September of last year.

from this site .

So what does this mean for the success of the Lost Experience? My interpretation is that they successfully hung onto viewers who remained curious about the cliffhanger endings of the finale. But they were not successful in drawing more viewers to the actual show.

I was surprised that the ratings didn't increase, at least a tiny bit, because of the Lost Experience.

So, just how successful was the Lost Experience if it didn't help the show increase the number of viewers? I realize that some of the Lost Experience players may be watching the show on itunes or on the ABC website - still I expected the numbers to go up.

Any thoughts?

Note: some people seem to think that the Season 2 premiere numbers were skewed because of the intense interest in the hatch...I guess people were interested in the hatch and then left when the resolution of that story was not satisfying and neither was the switch of focus to the tail section people. But my question is about the Lost Experience and whether it brought in viewers.

How much TV discussion should occur in #lostexp now?

Scott@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:18:04 +0000

I'm not going to vote, but here's my point of view.

well that made no sense whatsoever.

[PMs] Post-Game Chat with the PMs

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:08:41 +0000

I had some of the blog entries not embed the audio clips properly, so here are the direct links:

http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/files/mike_benson_lost_interview_pt1.mp3
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/files/mike_benson_lost_interview_pt2.mp3
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/files/mike_benson_lost_interviewpt3.mp3
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/files/mike_benson_lost_interview_concl.mp3

[PMs] Post-Game Chat with the PMs

RPGgame@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:01:04 +0000

too lazy to do this properly,

there is an audio interview up with Mike Benson, the Senior Vice President of Marketing for ABC Entertainment
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/2006/09/lost_can_be_fou.html
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/2006/09/lost_can_be_fou.html
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/2006/09/the_lost_experi_1.html
http://mathieson.typepad.com/genwow/2006/10/the_lost_experi.html

I got the heads up from christy's blog