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Valve's fake, rigged, waste of time Progress Quest troll Portal 2 ARG
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TheExodu5 said:
The Valve employee in the thread specifically mentions "the website", so those who took a shortcut or two using saves, or used a utility such as Cheat Engine, should be fine. (And as mentioned above, it's not as though Valve can know what users were running in the background when they obtained their potatoes.)
Hopefully the Dojiban game scripts were fine. I'd assume so, since they were client side.
So anyways, using every trick in the book, I managed to go through all 36 potatoes from 9PM last night to now, 6AM. 9 hours. Not too bad. I was going for a quick time, so I used walkthroughs where appropriate.
So anyways, using every trick in the book, I managed to go through all 36 potatoes from 9PM last night to now, 6AM. 9 hours. Not too bad. I was going for a quick time, so I used walkthroughs where appropriate.
SalsaShark said:
I think a lot of the meltdowns are a bit too much, but if Valve want to save face in front of their fans, they need to intervene. People have fulfilled the conditions on paper, they have bought and played the potato pack. A lot of them have done this, we can see this just by the potato contribution., it's simply a case of overestimating how much people were willing to contribute which has caused this. Considering how much work went into this campaign, its a shame to see it ending on a sour note.
The only people that are potentially at risk are those who used saves that unlocked Steam achievements. They'd all show up as being unlocked at the same time which will set off a red flag should Valve go looking for it.
Having said that, I really don't think they'll crack down on anybody who used the actual games to get the potatoes. Going after those who did absolutely nothing to earn their potatoes makes sense, but even those who used the Cogs saves still had to jump a few hurdles.
Having said that, I really don't think they'll crack down on anybody who used the actual games to get the potatoes. Going after those who did absolutely nothing to earn their potatoes makes sense, but even those who used the Cogs saves still had to jump a few hurdles.
I left mine doing Cogs overnight, looks like that was a reasonable choice, since it's top priority now.
One thing's puzzling me: I think the "Computations completed for launch" meter is showing *more* progression than the average of the bars below. I'm wondering if we don't actually need to complete everything to get P2.
One thing's puzzling me: I think the "Computations completed for launch" meter is showing *more* progression than the average of the bars below. I'm wondering if we don't actually need to complete everything to get P2.
TheExodu5 said:
I hope so. I had to cheat for one of the Potatoes in 1_2_3_Kick_IT!. I have a Razer Krait mouse and for some reason the non hardware login screen never triggered for me. Even though I did everything correctly. According to the wiki some users have the same bug and the only workaround is to use a different computer. Which I don't have at the moment.
If it's slower than they intended they could have speeded it up, it's not like the mechanics are clearly defined. It kind of feels like they're gunning for a release not early enough to annoy other retailers, but just early enough to warrant an extra post on all the blogs.syoaran said:
Phantom Limbs
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Man.....I was really hoping this would release tomorrow.
Delusions of grandeur.
Delusions of grandeur.
SalsaShark said:
That's not really what we are talking about Salsa, the potato's for the sake of a reward is the reward itself, and has little to do other than help create an incentive people to go the whole mile if they bought into the Potato pack. You yourself went that mile without any Portal2 related rewards whatsoever, which helps prove my point. Valve souring a good marketing campaign because of incorrect numbers will happen unless they intervene, in-regardless of your 36 potato reward.
darkpaladinmfc
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Cogsmandiller said:
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Phantom Limbs
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so...we lost less than an hour.
Cool?
Cool?
Hakkuei said:
I alternated between all 3 in my 8'ish hour quest, but Easy/Novice was the one I finally snagged it in. Ironic, really, considering my failed attempts in Medium/Pro were closer to the mark than my failed attempts in Easy/Novice.
evlcookie said:
Fair enough!
This was interesting:
Edit: The theory would make sense as it seems the rate hasn't changed all that much even though the potato count has been going up and up and up from when this thing initially started. Also, the "X" on the site is just plain text and not an image like the potato image is on there.
Valve ARG Wiki said:
Edit: The theory would make sense as it seems the rate hasn't changed all that much even though the potato count has been going up and up and up from when this thing initially started. Also, the "X" on the site is just plain text and not an image like the potato image is on there.
Phantom Limbs
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Very interesting. Probably true.
I got all 36 so I've done my part. Most of them are really easy if you use the wiki on valvearg.com
GET TO IT, FOLKS!
I got all 36 so I've done my part. Most of them are really easy if you use the wiki on valvearg.com
GET TO IT, FOLKS!
EatChildren
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By the time that happens the game will be out already.
Pipomantis
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Ok seriously, Steam, do YOU think that this is the time to ask me for a Steam Guard special code that you DON'T SEND ME?
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ThoseDeafMutes
Member
EatChildren said:
I dunno, it had like 200,000 when I went to sleep yesterday. The potatos seem to be rising reasonably quickly during certain times of the day.
TheBez said:
Source Engine updates went out yesterday or the day before.
Steam downloads always start from 0%, even if the games make use of shared assets (Source Engine games being the most obvious example). Games that do share assets will simply finish earlier and appear to download more quickily; the percentage completed doesn't jump ahead.
Having said that, ~9.8GB of Portal 2's ~10GB download/file size is unique assets. The game is Valve's largest by far.
Lostconfused
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Somebody made a half serious joke about it in the release thread, but this really is a Skinner box.Hylian7 said:
maniac-kun
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03:39: Unlock-icon.png arg2 chatroom user Willox indicates since 88 is the ascii code for 'X' then it might mean the Auxiliary Power will kick in at X 375,466 potatos using the number Steve posted in the BostonIndies Has anyone seen Ichiro messages we received April 13th. Potato count is currently at X 357,091. [S
theres still hope get more Potatos!
theres still hope get more Potatos!
Prophet Steve
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Yeah, it's a few posts up.maniac-kun said:
Do you actually know this, or is it a gut assumption of some kind?God's Beard said:
Anyway, it seemed evident that the global completion bar is an average of the completion bars. http://www.gamingmasters.co.uk/portal/ has numbers on all of this, and it should be fairly reputable.
Global completion percentage: 56.48%
Game-by-game completion percentage:
- 100
- 100
- 100
- 100
- 28.01
- 23.19
- 64.55
- 47.48
- 49.67
- 46.83
- 31.73
- 21.88
- 20.57
Crunched the numbers on that, and the rough completion average I got is: 56.46%
So yeah. If there's a disconnect between the local and global completion bars, that is to say, if the former does not determine the latter, how? I'm not seeing it.
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