... Very sneaky valve... you create cleaver marketing promotions to hype us up, now present a way to release the game EARLY by buying other games first... you sly bastards... I'm not sure if I want to hate them or congradulate them. I can't afford it at the moment sadly, spent my monthly budget getting Portal 2 and pre loading! Lets hope others might be able to boot up GlaDOS sooner. Oh well, just a few more days. Otherwise.
GLaDOS Prepares Countdown for Portal 2 ARG's "Final Test"
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Here's a Google Doc with the list of how to get the potatoes:swimon said:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1vPutCkoZKA9XL5ZjSuNXfX8NfoeHW3xcrv7DgalKUfE&pli=1
Okay, apparently getting potatoes is not necessary, only logging playtime.
http://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php
http://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php
So she needs at least 122,439 potatoes for Portal 2 to launch early? In the last 10min I checked we gained 43 potatoes so maybe more people will contribute later on in the evening. Almost guarentee that after this weekend, Portal 2 will launch on Sunday or Monday hopefully when everyone has time off. [Hermit Weekend]
They say that players should focus first on "The Wonderful End of the World".
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/valveARG2
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/valveARG2
Hmm... I wonder what people who get all 36 potatoes gets? It said something about not being hat-based (yay!). I wonder if it's a copy of Portal 2... It's really hard not to force myself to not try getting them all! But some of them are a giant pain to get though... (I've already got them all from AAAAAAAAAH! A Reckless Disregard For Gravity and Super Meat Boy, but I still have over 20 to go).
Well, we managed to shave about an hour off the timer.
Come on people, all we need to do is play alot of pontless games! I'm pretty sure everyone on the Escapist knows how to do that.
Come on people, all we need to do is play alot of pontless games! I'm pretty sure everyone on the Escapist knows how to do that.
The pointlessness annoys me. It looks like we might get it a day early at most, for which countless thousands of people would have to spend the preceding three days constantly playing games they may not particularly want to play.
Surely it makes far more sense to just play/do anything you want, as usual. If you want to play one of those 13 games, go ahead, otherwise do something you'd prefer. It's a win/win scenario.
I reckon this end-game is Valve giving back to the indie devs for promoting P2 by ensuring that thousands of people feel obliged to buy and play their games. This, to me, explains the minor effect the playtime's had so far: there's like one hour off the clock, almost. I expect that this part is designed to last at least three days so that the indie guys get their effort's worth out of it, while Valve also get to say that they released a game slightly earlier than they said they would.
It's obvious of course, I just don't understand why most feedback seems to be positive. It is clever, but still...
"We COULD release it on the 15th, but you can't have it until you've played Toki Tori for 24 hours."
"What? Why? Oh, I see, you owe someone a favour. I'll just get to work then, will I?"
"Please. Oh, and you should also spend most of your weekend searching for obscure potatoes, for no clear reason."
I hate potatoes. They're dry and brown and horrible. And don't worry about GLaDOS, she's booting up either way. I've been watching videos of it happening for the past nine months.
Enjoy your weekend.
Surely it makes far more sense to just play/do anything you want, as usual. If you want to play one of those 13 games, go ahead, otherwise do something you'd prefer. It's a win/win scenario.
I reckon this end-game is Valve giving back to the indie devs for promoting P2 by ensuring that thousands of people feel obliged to buy and play their games. This, to me, explains the minor effect the playtime's had so far: there's like one hour off the clock, almost. I expect that this part is designed to last at least three days so that the indie guys get their effort's worth out of it, while Valve also get to say that they released a game slightly earlier than they said they would.
It's obvious of course, I just don't understand why most feedback seems to be positive. It is clever, but still...
"We COULD release it on the 15th, but you can't have it until you've played Toki Tori for 24 hours."
"What? Why? Oh, I see, you owe someone a favour. I'll just get to work then, will I?"
"Please. Oh, and you should also spend most of your weekend searching for obscure potatoes, for no clear reason."
I hate potatoes. They're dry and brown and horrible. And don't worry about GLaDOS, she's booting up either way. I've been watching videos of it happening for the past nine months.
Enjoy your weekend.