but this pack is missing portal 1.
Didn't see that, but I already had Portal so the extra one provides no value, and would assume that is the case for most people preordering it on Steam.
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but this pack is missing portal 1.
Didn't see that, but I already had Portal so the extra one provides no value, and would assume that is the case for most people preordering it on Steam.
Ya, I hate Valve bundles sometimes. Like when I bought the Orange Box. Paid for HL2, when I already had it. They had to be greedy and not release the Black Box. I'm sure when they release Episode 3 (maybe in 2020 or some crap), they'll produce only like...an ultimate box. Which has HL2, Ep 1, Ep 2, Portal, Portal 2, TF2, and other crap that everyone already owns.
Ya, too bad they don't seperate them before they actually release it. Which kind of defeats the purpose of preordering to preload. Guess they'd much rather have ppl being unable to activate on release day.
Have you already gotten all the potatoes in those three games?
I'm hoping the unemployed do most the work for me while I'm grinding away at work.
On the plus side anyone that waited was actually able to play their games right afterwards. Steam ground to a complete halt when OB launched.
I really think this is pretty much BS. Trying to milk as much out of PC gamers as possible. Valve is already incredibly profitable...I guess they can never have enough.
I'm pretty sure Steam gets some of those profits from sales of indie games. Not to mention, by selling more, the indie devs might be more inclined to keep selling their wares on Steam. Hell, I'm surprised they don't just jump ship and start making games for Android or iPad.
Pretty much. While Valve stands to profit as the distributor, I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket for them while on the other hand this could be a big boon for the indie devs.This is helping indie devs. Notice how all of the games in the Potato sack are indie? Yeah.
focus on "The Wonderful End of the World" since it's over halfway done
focus on "The Wonderful End of the World" since it's over halfway done
Wow. Concurrent would be pretty much near impossible to rally together in just a couple of days.People over on the Steam forums are alleging this is simply a marketing ploy and there is no way for the game to actually be released early. There was the golden wrench thing with the TF2 update that also turned out to be impossible to have released early.
If it turns out that there was no chance of Portal 2 ever being released early, people will be rioting in the proverbial streets if they bought into this. It appears from the site that you need to have X number of people currently playing one of the games. Judging by where the progress bar is, unless this becomes cumulative, it appears impossible.
Wow. Concurrent would be pretty much near impossible to rally together in just a couple of days.
No way is it going to get released early......
I went to this site: http://www.timeanddate.com/date/timeadd.html
Set it to today's date and time and added the time remaining on the glados@home screen...
Guess what - got Tuesday at 7 am. Go figure.
What people are trying to figure out is if that time remaining number will go down in the event they fill one of those bars. If that's the case, it might be released early, assuming it is physically possibe to fill one.
How is this difficult to figure out? At 11 am EST, the timer was 95 hours. At this moment (5 hours later), it stands at slightly below 90 hours. It matches the progress bar almost perfectly. Also, at 11 am, there were ~78k users. Now it stands at ~144k.
Assuming the clock perfectly matched my system time, at the very best, in those 5 hours, 3 seconds were shaved off.
This really isn't rocket science nor brain surgery, despite what many Steam Users would love to believe. It's a marketing gimmick, pure and simple.
That's not how it (apparently) works.
You are assuming the overall progress bar correlates directly to the progress bars for the individual games, and does so regardless of whether they are completed or not. The theory is that once enough people play those listed games and the invididual progress bars on the games fill up, the overall progress bar will increase and the time remaining will reduce.
No one can prove that one way or the other, but your way makes less sense than that. In any event, though I don't agree with your reasoning, I still think it's a marketing ploy, and people will be pissed. I assume Valve will cave and release it on Sunday or Monday because the forums will be ablaze.
If no one knows, nor can prove how it works, then what you're talking about is a hypothesis, not theory. I'm basing it off of what we do know for a fact. At 11 AM EST, the estimated time was 95 hours. At 4 PM EST, the estimated time was 90 hours. The percentage the progress bar has moved correlates to this data.
If something changes to disprove the above, so be it. But until someone can prove this is not a marketing ploy to get the gullible and ignorant to purchase games they would otherwise not purchase, I'll stick to known quantities.
This potato preloading thing is bullshit. Fuck Valve's marketing department. I wish people wouldn't engage in this stuff and just sat back and waited for it to be released normally.
So instead of people having fun, playing other games, having a chance to get Portal 2 released early, help Valve increase their customer base, etc., you'd rather no one care? What does it matter to you what others do/how they spend their time?
It's not like Valve is calling you or sending people to your door. It's your own fault if you pay attention to it even though it annoys you.Because it encourages this kind of asinine marketing gimmickry that Valve does so well and I find irritating. I'd rather people didn't encourage it and the Valve marketing department had their families beaten in front of them.
Because it encourages this kind of asinine marketing gimmickry that Valve does so well and I find irritating. I'd rather people didn't encourage it and the Valve marketing department had their families beaten in front of them.
Because it encourages this kind of asinine marketing gimmickry that Valve does so well and I find irritating. I'd rather people didn't encourage it and the Valve marketing department had their families beaten in front of them.