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[Dilly]

If those bars have to be full, we can all just wait for Tuesday anyway.

 

[JaseC]

I DON'T HAVE ANY POTATO SACK GAMES INSTALLED ON MY SSD IFUAH(F&*(A&F*(FYAUIFBHIAFH

 

[Daigoro]

Spoiler

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

time to run some games..

the challenge number dropped quite a bit just now

 

[fallengorn]

Yay, I can go home after work and finish getting the last potatoes.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Wonderful promotion to try to get people to support a bunch of great indie games. Valve is so generous, bravo.

 

[dave is ok]

It started at 118k potatoes, went down to 75k and then back up to 119k.

GlaDos sucks at math.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Oh, do you just need to be running one of the games? That's a lot more reasonable.

 

[sneakypete]

The people in the BF3/FB thread were right..

Like us on FB and get a trailer a few days early!
Spend $40 now and get the game a few days early!

 

[José Mourinho]

Surely you own one of those games. You don't need to buy anything.

I own two of them, But I don't care to play them. I'm more talking about the fact that there's a banner linking to the Steam page to buy them. Just seems like money making scheme to me.

 

[L00P]

Do we only need to run the games or do we need to get the potatoes?

cuz I don't like getting potatoes

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Like us on FB and get a trailer a few days early!
Spend $40 now and get the game a few days early!

That is a shallow and inaccurate portrait of the situation, yes.

 

[DaFish]

Spoiler

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

exactly

 

[Chavelo]

No more potato unlocking required... ALL GLADOS WANT US TO DO IS PLAY THE GAMES. D:

 

[blizzardjesus]

I like the fact that the indies are getting attention from this.

 

[theinfinityissue]

the way it seems to work is this: (seems)

The more potatoes you have, the more "powerful" your cpu is to GlaDOS. All you have to do is actually play one of the games and you'll generate a certain amount of power towards that game's goal. So just pick whichever one you own with the least amount of cpu's on it and start playing.

I never finished Defense Grid anyway.

 

[Blizzard]

The people in the BF3/FB thread were right..

Like us on FB and get a trailer a few days early!
Spend $40 now and get the game a few days early!

Hope pirates/reviewers/Steam friends don't spoil the game for you early while you wait! >_>

 

[epmode]

This sounds like concurrent CPUs. So: The total number of potatoes earned by everyone currently connected to Steam.

I NEED TO GET HOME.

edit: Or maybe the current number of Steam users currently in one of the Potato Sack games?

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Potatoes list. Where.

 

[samoset]

I own a few of those games how do I get potatoes in order to help the cause? There doesn't seem to be any guides for getting them when I've google searched for it.

 

[Zomba13]

I own two of them, But I don't care to play them. I'm more talking about the fact that there's a banner linking to the Steam page to buy them. Just seems like money making scheme to me.

Well they are a business. And they are promoting indie devs in possibly the best way possible.
You don't have to play the game, just leave it running. I've got SMB running in the background.

 

[ColonialRaptor]

Surely you own one of those games. You don't need to buy anything.

I own none of those games. NONE! I had no intention of buying any of them either, and to be honest... I would feel like a complete idiot if I bought any of them for this... BUT I want to play early.

How many internet Steam / Portal 2 fans are there and are willing to pay for these games that haven't already? To be honest, I don't think it will get released much early at all. This is complete BS.

 

[Lostconfused]

I own two of them, But I don't care to play them. I'm more talking about the fact that there's a banner linking to the Steam page to buy them. Just seems like money making scheme to me.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head. Don't want to do it that's fine but no point in bitching about it either.

 

[JaseC]

I DON'T HAVE ANY POTATO SACK GAMES INSTALLED ON MY SSD IFUAH(F&*(A&F*(FYAUIFBHIAFH

WAIT I HAVE ALL OF THEM INSTALLED ON MY LAPTOP!

 

[Krev]

...What the fuck Valve. What the fuck.

My thoughts exactly.

It's nice that they're encouraging support for indie games, I guess, but for the results of such a long countdown to be...this? Hard to not feel betrayed.

I will only be willing to forgive them if an Episode 3/Half-Life 3 announcement ultimately comes out of this.

 

[Graphics Horse]

lol
Well I wasn't expecting that.
It's like Nobbi Nobbi Boy or something.

 

[subversus]

I'll play Amnesia and Killing Floor tonight.

 

[The Omega Man]

so what is the final challenge exactly? I already bought the potato-pack.

 

[Cindres]

This is confusing to no end.

It does not help that the fucking wiki is offline

 

[Brewster's Wallet]

No thanks. Will wait till Tuesday.

 

[José Mourinho]

Nobody is holding a gun to your head. Don't want to do it that's fine but no point in bitching about it either.

Seriously, no gun? *Phew* load off my mind. I'm simply saying, just seems like a boring waste of time. Tuesday will come and the game will be out. Meh.

 

[Jay Shadow]

A final challenge using the exact same games they've been using for every previous challenge. How dare they.

 

[kswiston]

I own none of those games. NONE! I had no intention of buying any of them either, and to be honest... I would feel like a complete idiot if I bought any of them for this... BUT I want to play early.

How many internet Steam / Portal 2 fans are there and are willing to pay for these games that haven't already? To be honest, I don't think it will get released much early at all. This is complete BS.

Honestly, it surprises me that there are people with none of the potato games at this point. I never bought the potato pack and still have 9 of them. Do you ONLY buy big budget AAA titles? Because at least half of those games are excellent. Among the better titles this generation.

EDIT: half of these games have also been offered up in the 5 for $5 steam indie bundles as well. And all have gone on sale for $2-5 at some point.

 

[Forkball]

I'm ready to get Valve'd

And I was.

Numbers keep going up and down. I wonder if that bar means the people currently in the game, and in order to fill it up everyone has to be in the game at the same time. That's going to be impossible.

 

[The M.O.B]

If you do not own Killing Floor, Super Meat Boy or Amnesia, then I highly recommend you at least buy those. All great games worth the money.

Nothing is updating for me....

 

[Mikey Jr.]

So this is the end of the ARG?

The hell was the point of everything.....

Or is the arg still going on?

 

[ashbash159]

Can someone post how I can get all the potatoes? I want to get them all now, since I will be bored all weekend.

Thanks!

Also could you tell me what ones are easy and what are difficult.

 

[Baha]

From Steam News:

This weekend is the last chance to pre-purchase Portal 2. Get your copy now, save 10% and be ready to play the moment it is released.

Help release Portal 2 early: From now until release, play any or all of games in The Potato Sack to expedite the launch of Portal 2. Your efforts will be tracked on the official GLaDOS@home page.

Each game in The Potato Sack has received a massive Portal-themed update, making a collection of 13 hit indie games even better. So why not get a taste of Portal 2 now while you help launch it?

 

[The Omega Man]

And I was.

Numbers keep going up and down. I wonder if that bar means the people currently in the game, and in order to fill it up everyone has to be in the game at the same time. That's going to be impossible.

numbers have been fluctuating, it'll require massive organization to see if it works, heck looking by how small the bars are filled even for Killing Floor, I am going to say this is going to be impossible.

 

[brotkasten]

My thoughts exactly.

It's nice that they're encouraging support for indie games, I guess, but for the results of such a long countdown to be...this? Hard to not feel betrayed.

I will only be willing to forgive them if an Episode 3/Half-Life 3 announcement ultimately comes out of this.

Long count down? It was like 24h or less. How's that long?

From Steam News:

So you don't have to collect the potatoes, just play the games from the pack.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

So this is the end of the ARG?

The hell was the point of everything.....

Point of ARG is marketing; to get people to talk about Portal 2, and to say the least this ARG has certainly done just that. An ARG is not a game to satisfy the insane people who follow its every minuscule hint and spend hours upon hours upon hours cracking its code. The people who end up doing that stuff are always going to be disappointed at the final results.

 

[wind_steaker]

the numer of cpus doesn't seem to be changing..

edit : now they've gone up 4x

 

[Big Chief Crazy Cone]

I can't believe almost 120,000 potatoes have been earned already. Thats insane.

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

It started at 118k potatoes, went down to 75k and then back up to 119k.

the counter is rising, but that doesn't tell us anything about a final number

75,340
[12:08 PM]119,205
[12:12 PM]119,408
[12:15 PM]119,623
[12:18 PM]119,939
[12:21 PM]120,566

 

[Drkirby]

09:00 – April Fools.

CALLED IT!

09:01 – I’m joking.

Oh... Never mind!

Also, how does the CPU thing work? Get Potatos, or just play the game?

 

[Weenerz]

Bah, I work till 10pm est, I'll just start up each of the games and go to work. Leave them running till I get home or till my PC crashes lol.

 

[dave is ok]

the numer of cpus doesn't seem to be changing..

edit : now they've gone up 4x

It just jumped up. Yeah

SMB went from 494 to 2,165

 

[The Technomancer]

it cant be the size of the bars. If it was, they would expect like 50,000 Killing Floor players online at once. Thats not possible.

 

[Firehead]

Spoiler

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

That's exactly how I feel. .__.

 

[Baha]

From the Portal 2 blog:

"There's also still time to collect all 36 potatoes. Anyone accomplishing this feat by the time Portal 2 launches will receive a very special, non-hat-based reward."

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php