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Valve's fake, rigged, waste of time Progress Quest troll Portal 2 ARG

The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
gregor7777 said:
OK I can see where that fit into the discussion.
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We're on a message board talking about descending potatoes and bars filling. All this controlled by a rampant A.I. that has nothing better to do than keep us from playing a video game. Do you honestly expect reasonable discourse at this point?
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
Flib said:
The Ball seems to be finishing up super quickly, may even beat Audiosurf.
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Nah, Audiosurf should finish up in 20 minutes, the Ball is still a good hour away.

Nope. People did manage to play just enough of the games and collect just enough potatoes for the game to launch at midnight, though. Amazing how that worked out.
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Midnight EST instead of Midnight PST, PROGRESS!
 
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Ferrio

Banned
Zombie James said:
Nope. People did manage to play just enough of the games and collect just enough potatoes for the game to launch at midnight, though. Amazing how that worked out.
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Ya to coincide with valve's usual launch window, we're just that good!
 
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Snapshot King

Member
Zombie James said:
Nope. People did manage to play just enough of the games and collect just enough potatoes for the game to launch at midnight, though. Amazing how that worked out.
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Problem is that it's midnight valve time. I fully expect the countdown to end, the countdown page to initiliaze and load portal 2, and then for the pre-loads to fail finishing for a few hours.
 
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Flib

Member
Snapshot King said:
Really? I missed the jump. It went from what to what in about how long?
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Not sure, but it was definitely really noticeable. That or I'm going crazy, which is a possibility.
 
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gregor7777

Banned
DoctorWho said:
We're on a message board talking about descending potatoes and bars filling. All this controlled by a rampant A.I. that has nothing better to do than keep us from playing a video game. Do you honestly expect reasonable discourse at this point?
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You have me there sir.
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
InsertNameHere said:
Yes, we've all canceled our preorders because the game isn't coming out early.
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I will admit I somewhat wish I didn't get a two pack with someone since I could of bought it at Best Buy for far less. Oh well!
 
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Zombie James

Banned
Snapshot King said:
Problem is that it's midnight valve time. I fully expect the countdown to end, the countdown page to initiliaze and load portal 2, and then for the pre-loads to fail finishing for a few hours.
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If people haven't preloaded yet, that's their problem.
 
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BobTheFork

Member
Drkirby said:
Nah, Audiosurf should finish up in 20 minutes, the Ball is still a good hour away.


Midnight EST instead of Midnight PST, PROGRESS!
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Oh my God we've traveled through time!!! You there, boy in the yard, what day is it?
 
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IceMarker

Member
I'm in #PotatoFoolsDay chat right now and infected user Douglas is in it, apparently he rejected Valve's offer to go down and test with the other eight subjects, I made a joke about how the number should be EIGHT instead of NINE and he said that doesn't count him out of being one of the nine.

At the moment it seems 'he can't say anything'. It seems Valve has a lot of NDAs on his ass.
 
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Snapshot King

Member
Zombie James said:
If people haven't preloaded yet, that's their problem.
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No, I mean, as in, my pre-load is complete, the countdown will end, but the game won't actually unlock and download the remaining chunks for several hours because of valve time. Happened with every big release I've pre-loaded with Valve the past couple years, it'd be funny if they hype up this count down clock and they fuck it up again.
 
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Phantom Limbs

Banned
MrMister said:
I'm in #PotatoFoolsDay chat right now and infected user Douglas is in it, apparently he rejected Valve's offer to go down and test with the other eight subjects, I made a joke about how the number should be EIGHT instead of NINE and he said that doesn't count him out of being one of the nine.

At the moment it seems 'he can't say anything'. It seems Valve has a lot of NDAs on his ass.
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EP3 CONFIRMED!!!!
 
The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
MrMister said:
I'm in #PotatoFoolsDay chat right now and infected user Douglas is in it, apparently he rejected Valve's offer to go down and test with the other eight subjects, I made a joke about how the number should be EIGHT instead of NINE and he said that doesn't count him out of being one of the nine.

At the moment it seems 'he can't say anything'. It seems Valve has a lot of NDAs on his ass.
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What would he say? Don't the "NINE" simply get to play the game a little earlier than the rest of us? What more could there be?
 
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Zombie James

Banned
Snapshot King said:
No, I mean, as in, my pre-load is complete, the countdown will end, but the game won't actually unlock and download the remaining chunks for several hours because of valve time. Happened with every big release I've pre-loaded with Valve the past couple years, it'd be funny if they hype up this count down clock and they fuck it up again.
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Oh, damn... this is the first Valve game I've preloaded... hope that doesn't happen.
 
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Red

Member
DarthWufei said:
I don't understand how Valve has done any wrong with the ARG. It's not really about Portal 2 and moreso just about expanding the Sack games to larger audiences.

Portal 2 is going to launch on the day it was set to launch? Well fuck! Nuke the magazine racks bitches.
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Man people are still saying this? You still don't get it.
 
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Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
Zombie James said:
Nope. People did manage to play just enough of the games and collect just enough potatoes for the game to launch at midnight, though. Amazing how that worked out.
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Kindly be quiet unless you're actually paying attention.
 
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Jinaar

Member
I wonder if there will be a Valve Post-Mortem on this by Gamasutra or someone else in the industry. Would be interesting to find out what their mission was, how it got implemented and how it was received.

Obviously, mission was to rage the masses. Yum!
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
BobTheFork said:
Oh my God we've traveled through time!!! You there, boy in the yard, what day is it?
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It is the 21st Century.

No, I mean, as in, my pre-load is complete, the countdown will end, but the game won't actually unlock and download the remaining chunks for several hours because of valve time. Happened with every big release I've pre-loaded with Valve the past couple years, it'd be funny if they hype up this count down clock and they fuck it up again.
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Hmmmm... Switch to some Scandinavian country's download server now, or hope university grade internet is enough to download before the servers get bogged down...
 
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gregor7777

Banned
Regardless of the timing, there's a really good chance Valve fucks up the Steam launch anyhow. We're all forgetting Valve time here. Maybe that's the idea.
 
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Baha

Member
MrMister said:
I'm in #PotatoFoolsDay chat right now and infected user Douglas is in it, apparently he rejected Valve's offer to go down and test with the other eight subjects, I made a joke about how the number should be EIGHT instead of NINE and he said that doesn't count him out of being one of the nine.

At the moment it seems 'he can't say anything'. It seems Valve has a lot of NDAs on his ass.
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Didn't he troll us on Thursday? I seem to remember he left a bunch of cryptic remarks and tried slowing the ARG progress (even admitted to it in steam chat "who wants to play Decay?").
 
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie

Member
Videogame communities are the fucking worst. The entitlement and rage at something not launching early enough before the planned release date because you guys got too serious about a silly online game is troubling.
 
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dollartaco

Member
Crunched said:
Man people are still saying this? You still don't get it.
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I get it and agree. It was clear on Friday that this was going to be a long process that would last until Monday morning at the earliest. Then people started to speculate and hype themselves based on no evidence. And so now they (you?) are disappointed. But the game is releasing early.
 
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Treefingers

Member
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Videogame communities are the fucking worst. The entitlement and rage at something not launching early enough before the planned release date because you guys got too serious about a silly online game is troubling.
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I don't think anyone here feels entitled. There's something called disappointment however, you might wanna look that up.
 
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Doopliss

Member
DoctorWho said:
What would he say? Don't the "NINE" simply get to play the game a little earlier than the rest of us? What more could there be?
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I had got the impression that the 'infected users' were ARG characters, not real people. Does anyone know about that?
 
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Baha

Member
B-Dex said:
Because everyone on steam is a weak scaredy cat we won't get Portal 2 early! (Damn Amnesia)
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You can just launch the game and leave it on the launcher and it'll still count...
 
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie

Member
Treefingers said:
I don't think anyone here feels entitled. There's something called disappointment however, you might wanna look that up.
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There is no reasonable way to be disappointed in something not coming out earlier than planned. It's absolutely insane to think that way.

I was bummed when it didn't come out on Friday when the countdown ended, but I got over it. The burning anger going around the Internet right now over this thing is ridiculous.
 
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Lostconfused

Member
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Videogame communities are the fucking worst. The entitlement and rage at something not launching early enough before the planned release date because you guys got too serious about a silly online game is troubling.
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Ahahaha good try. But you have to know that this joke has already been trampled into the ground right? Well I still had a good chuckle.
 
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fallengorn

Bitches love smiley faces
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Videogame communities are the fucking worst. The entitlement and rage at something not launching early enough before the planned release date because you guys got too serious about a silly online game is troubling.
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I thinking it's a more generational thing than something unique to one sub-culture.
 
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Red

Member
dollartaco said:
I get it and agree. It was clear on Friday that this was going to be a long process that would last until Monday morning at the earliest. Then people started to speculate and hype themselves based on no evidence. And so now they (you?) are disappointed. But the game is releasing early.
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The game could release this coming Friday and I wouldn't be any worse off. The grind sucks, that's what the complaints are about, and that the entire "final test" was planned out and timed by Valve.

Very few of us ever complained about Portal 2 not being released early. What would the logic in that be? We were complaining about the anticlimactic end to the game, and the pointless bar-filling over the weekend.
 
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