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Valve's fake, rigged, waste of time Progress Quest troll Portal 2 ARG
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Zefah said:
This isn't a legal contract. This is a marketing ploy that was seen as a gesture of good will by many fans awaiting the game.
I'll use Corky's example...if Valve said "wait to buy X game because it will be the next Weekend Deal", but the game only ended up being 5% off, people would be angry. It doesn't matter that they didn't technically lie. All that matters is that they didn't reach the expectation they set forward. Of course, you're never going to match everyone's expectation, but your goal should be to match those expectations as much as possible.
Is they were to start the timed event today instead of Friday, people's expectations would have more likely fallen in line with what has transcended, and the word of mouth would be more positive.
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Nappuccino
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chiba said:
Overclocking
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
IchigoSharingan said:
But it is releasing early...
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Xyrmellon said:
Except that they didn't? They set a goal, and that goal hasn't yet been crossed.
Did anyone ever stop to think that the turnout for this might have been abysmally low and far below the expectations that Valve originally set?
I already owned a bunch of those potato sack games before this whole thing started, and other then a bit of Amnesia over the weekend, I certainly didn't bother to boot up one copy of each game and keep them running in the background. I imagine most people simply didn't care.
Nappuccino said:
Yeah words like bigger, smaller, larger, shorter, louder, earlier, cheaper are all undefined. But 0.00000000000001% increments don't count.
Kinda like somebody say " The dark knight will have early screenings in new york " when they mean 15 seconds earlier.
Littleberu
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Ferrio said:
What the size of the installed game on the Hard drive?
Cindres said:
http://portal2countdown.com/
Now only 27 minutes left.
Edit: Of course it's not by valve but still wondering.
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TheExodu5 said:
Sure. But they didn't say "Portal 2 is coming out early!", they said "If enough people play this ambiguous game we have set up, we'll release Portal 2 early."
It would have been cool if they were more transparent about how the game worked. I didn't participate in it myself because the whole thing was way too ambiguous and I didn't particularly feel like playing any of the potato sack games over the weekend, aside from a bit of Amnesia.
As an aside: Some douche nozzles are changing their Steam profile names to spoilers, so if you're one of those people who has a million friends - or, like me, happen to look at the profile pages of a friend who has millions of friends - be wary.
Nappuccino said:
First off, it's an expectation, not an assumption.
Second, what past data did I have to have more "correct" expectations, as you would put it?
Zefah said:
It rubbed us the wrong way when we realized that the reason for that lack of transparency was to mislead.
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Phantom Limbs
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Plus it says 9 hours left.
Check the time settings on your computer or something
Check the time settings on your computer or something
butter_stick
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Lets just be glad Chris Moyles isn't.
Nappuccino
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Sn4ke_911 said:
I see 7 hours and 41 min.
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Corky said:
I think you should read them again.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=27230924&postcount=8348
An early release was hinted at, but not necessarily a "Friday or the weekend" release, which is exactly what I said in the quotes you chose to be sad at.
Zefah said:
I'm not sure what you want of me. You erroneously stated a friday/weekend release wasn't hinted <- WRONG
And then you said an early release was hinted.
( I'm aware it's not the direct opposite, but as mentioned a couple of posts above yours we're deep in semantics apparently )
SteveWinwood
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Nevermind... Not worth it.
Zefah said:
I'm sorry for being so blunt, you have to be incredibly naive if you think Valve set up some goal and that's the reason it hasn't yet launched. From the data we've seen, the overall completion rate has been constant and hasn't fluctuated at all with the variance in effort put in over the past few days. Furthermore, Valve said that this last "overclocked" portion would happen, and the time at which it is ending is making it clear that this whole thing is scripted.
You really should be able to see that...
It's obvious why they couldn't release it earlier as well: retailers.
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Corky said:
Well, we're already getting it 7ish hours "early"
That's early.
Xyrmellon said:
It just seems so obvious to me that Valve was trying to do something for everyone. The first week or so of the ARG which normal people don't participate in was really cool and had a hint in it that something would happen on last Friday. A countdown clock was found and some of the indie devs made cryptic hints towards an early release. game news sites reported the rumor that it when the countdown ended it MIGHT be for early release. People took it to mean it would release at the end of the countdown. Countdown ends and Valve puts up a new stage of the ARG that allows for pretty much everyone to contribute. I think that Valve had the right idea in mind, but it got out of hand with the early release aspect of it "leaking" so early. They wanted to create a crazy ARG for everyone and it didn't live up to everyone's expectations.
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shuyin_ said:You don't see the similarities?
Company announces they will release trailer for upcoming game if people click 1million times on their FB page.
Company announces the release of upcoming game will be shortened if people play/idle some particular games, ad nauseam.
If you don't see the similarities, you're probably the perfect customer for Valve. I hope they will manipulate people like you even further and i really hope that for the release of Half Life 3 they will make you play some games that you don't want to play untill your nose bleeds.)
And with the mentality you're showing, you'll probably obey them. Well done, customer
Wow, you sure are sensationalist.
How about you try taking what they say at face value instead of building up monumental expectations so you can feel betrayed and make whiny posts on message boards later on?
I'm just fine with the Tuesday release date. If it comes out early, cool. I sure as hell didn't participate in this potato computations game, nor did I like EA on Facebook.
Also, if you didn't want to play the games in the Potato Sack, then maybe you shouldn't have bought them.
I think the issue is bell would get rid of her address since it is tied to our bell service, no?Rainier said:
We called and asked and were told that the address would no longer be usable if we cancelled our sympatico service. How much of that is true, I don't know... but it immediately made my mom not want to switch.
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Zefah said:
Ok, you are right in that regard. An early release was never defined. However, we had to do a whole damn lot for getting the game a few hours, much more then the end result is worth and that Valve made us believe (it is Valve that has fed us a lot of this anticipation).
Also, the entire ARG is based on speculation. We had to take hints from anything and this time was not different.
EDIT: Meh, can anybody give me any tips on that Audiosurf song? Even with the wiki it still is very luck based and I cannot get the Cheat Engine to work.
Superimposer
This is getting weirder all the time
Is the potato countdown rate still the same?
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