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[hinoai]

Is this the secret meaning of the Eiffel Tower?!?!?! It was Pixie's hand all along!

And I'd like to see the rainbow unicorn one. Just saying.

[kosmopol]

[JustThinking]

Ok - question- would it be normal to have an ARG just full of red herrings? Those x's on the MRE's just had to be investigated- but it's clear that was a big waste of time.

How many other facets usually turn out to be nothing usually? Haven't done a lot of ARGS.

[gimlet]

[hinoai]

Yes! Closure, please! PMs! If nothing else, at least an update from Howard about him going into his bunker. It must have happened by now.

[DougBThree]

[danteIL]

[hinoai]

[Melodyman]

Hope i'm wrong but I have this nagging feeling that somehow the fiasco with the phone hack might have screwed up the next moves and caused an emergency rework of how to proceed if possible.. Really hoping we get to see the rest of the story and that they havent gotten fed up and quit on us.. ...

Question.. if they do decide to end the game here, will they let us know? Has this ever happened before?

[CynAnne]

Agreed...

[gimlet]

[kosmopol]

Yes, BR let collapsed some ARGs indeed. I mean, original Cloverfield ARG wasn't really finished, it merged with BluRay campaign (ugsx files) and ended in nowhere. Without any note by BR.

The best BR ARG was StarTrek so far, with social element of saving Vulcan in a huge console showdown, where players connected their forces into one ray. THIS was awesome. And highly cinematic.

Sometimes BR people informed the players about collapsed state of being of an ARG. Like they did in "Dharma wants you", a LOST ARG. Money went out, writer strike was hitting the Entertainment industry. So this ARG was abruptly cancelled. But in this case they haven't penetrated meta level. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk, the CEO of Hanso Foundation (who grounded Dharma Initiative) ran away to some islands where he could hid with covered identity. The End.
I mean, not really satisfying as a fact, but I could accept they used the implosion of this ARG still being ingame.

Super8 was afraik also not really properly ended.

Another good - awesome actually - end of an ARG by BR was "The LOST experience", where Rachel Blake, a critical blogger about Hanso Foundation (who was actually <spoiler>), appeared - wait for it - in Comiccon, at the official LOST panel, where she accused LOST makers for being paid by Hanso Foundation. Ingame and OOG merged. This was imho one of the most impressive ARG moments I know.

Well, I say BR, but the ARGs for Bad Robot productions are oftly produced by Third Companies, so it always depends.

The one thing I can say for sure: even if some ARGs collapsed, PMs always found a way to give us further hints if we were lost while of the game duration.

[gimlet]

Wow, now I'm going down memory lane.

I vaguely remember parts of the LOST experience, but am totally blanking on other parts reading about it I just do not recall it at all. The Apollo bars I definitely remember, and being pissed that there was no way to participate in Canada. I also only seem to have noticed some of the - apparently 5? - Lost args, but not others. So weird.

I remember Wikipedia was still pretty new and we were trying to chart ARG progress and theories on it until they basically kicked us out. So someone started a LOST Wiki? It must have been a really early fan wiki!

I think then the no Canadian shipping thing for Slusho really disalusioned me at the time. I think they eventually did add shipping, maybe even sent me an email about it after I complained? But then it was so prohibitively expensive and I had NO money back then.

I'm pretty sure I had no idea this forum existed. Only heard of it pretty recently. Which is so weird. I think I might have been reading Cloverfield Clues back in the day, because I totally remember reading the wacky Lion theories and people connecting it to the lost Polar bears and stuff on a blogger blog. Maybe I was also reading IMDB? Dunno.

It's all so faint and hazy! So long ago.

Edit: yeah, ok I think mostly followed along on Lostpedia back then. But I was just a lurker.

[MissingTeddyHanssen]

[gimlet]

Yeah! I wish I had known about that one at the time, but I just wasn't too into Tron until I saw it when it came out on BluRay.

Sounds like they hit every note right. It's one of the few that are spoken of with reverence. Like a peak moment. Though I think Disney was just burning through money back then, I think they clamped down on anything risky shortly after. Maybe now that they've fixed their license to print gold machine (aka Star Wars) they'll get back to doing some cool stuff like that.