Lol, killing floor completed and we gained NO time.
And the number went back up to 63... I wonder if they are just launching the game on steam now or something.
Supposedly it is the friends on the nelipot group. it's a multiple of 9, all of which have golden potatoes. My guess is that it is the first to that level.
Welp, I give up for the night. In the end, Valve really did manage to disappoint me. The countdown on the [email protected] page no longer corresponds to some theoretical progress bar, it's now directly tied to system time. Previously if you refreshed between updates of cpu/release timing, the time would continually reset to the start of that 'chunk'. Now if you refresh, the countdown continues perfectly.
There's really no more damning evidence showing just how fixed this was, and how impossible it would have been to accomplish. The targets were set purposefully out of reach, and the potato counter was only triggered in such a way as to rebuild excitement after it was clear the early release wouldn't happen as of Sunday.
I'm not going to be so melodramatic as to claim Valve lied. But I think this is a pretty piss poor showing for them, and I'll certainly be a lot more leery of anything like this they decide to run in the future.
This shit is too funny. Earlier today, the while 'net was all "Oh, praise the Gabe" when the potatoes started a-drainin'. Now the interwarbs are reaching for their pitchforks that they litterally just dropped.
Pretty sure that all the bars needed to be full for this to finish.
If that's the case, then no bar was "worth" more than the other, it was just that Valve only adjusted their predictions when the bars completed. So the people claiming that finishing Killing Floor would finish it all were basing it off of an erroneous assumption.
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I figure it'll release at 9pm PST. Defense grid will likely finish by then and knock off the remaining time. If it's not out by 9pm PST then so far as I'm concerned this was no fun. To me when someone says "Get it early", I'm thinking, you know, after work the day before or something.
Suppose the problem is that I'm not a high schooler anymore. These games are not necessarily released with my schedule in mind.
I just hope Vavle gives some kind of apology and consolation prize to the people who went and grinded tons of hours and collected tons of potatoes. (Not me, thankfully.) What a way to show your biggest fans the backside of your hand.
Number of test subjects is increasing. I imagine they're probably unlocking based on who has what from participating heavily in this. The mystic 9, to the golden potato people, and then wittling ti down based on the number of potatoes gotten.
I just hope Vavle gives some kind of apology and consolation prize to the people who went and grinded tons of hours and collected tons of potatoes. (Not me, thankfully.) What a way to show your biggest fans the backside of your hand.
They've said that there's some kind of reward for getting all 36 potatoes, but they haven't said what it is, other than it's not a hat and it's "very special".
Consoles release at midnight. Basically, Gabe Newell got 50 thousand people to buy decent to mediocre to purely shitty indie games to get it released on PC at the same god damn time as consoles.
Well played Valve, well played.
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So on the bright side, I just made a whole bunch of macaroni. Now, instead of making a difficult decision between eating macaroni and playing Portal 2, I'm just eating macaroni.
I just hope Vavle gives some kind of apology and consolation prize to the people who went and grinded tons of hours and collected tons of potatoes. (Not me, thankfully.) What a way to show your biggest fans the backside of your hand.
I, too, am crying a river over getting to play Portal 2 earlier than I would have otherwise.
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Supposedly it is the friends on the nelipot group. it's a multiple of 9, all of which have golden potatoes. My guess is that it is the first to that level.
We will find out when defense grid finishes.
There's really no more damning evidence showing just how fixed this was, and how impossible it would have been to accomplish. The targets were set purposefully out of reach, and the potato counter was only triggered in such a way as to rebuild excitement after it was clear the early release wouldn't happen as of Sunday.
I'm not going to be so melodramatic as to claim Valve lied. But I think this is a pretty piss poor showing for them, and I'll certainly be a lot more leery of anything like this they decide to run in the future.
Oh, Internet.
Let's face it, we are all watching with bated breath and we'll do it again.
fucking toooooooold yoooooou guuuuuuuuys.
If that's the case, then no bar was "worth" more than the other, it was just that Valve only adjusted their predictions when the bars completed. So the people claiming that finishing Killing Floor would finish it all were basing it off of an erroneous assumption.
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Suppose the problem is that I'm not a high schooler anymore. These games are not necessarily released with my schedule in mind.
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someone needs to invent a name for a capitalist version of corporate stockholm syndrome.
But it's saying less than an hour now, so I guess they're releasing it on 4-18.
I'm being so sincere right now
Hmm. Sounds like an hour a game, right? And if there have only been 11 recalculations, that would make sense.
Everyone, take a deep breath, start a windowed mode of either game, and relax.
Also the bars are going up by pixels per minute, so the redistribution of Killing Floor's processing power is obviously having an impact.
In which cas eI'll be towards then end with my 3
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Valve time should not invert itself when talking 'early' or 'before'! Bad Valve time, BAD!
They've said that there's some kind of reward for getting all 36 potatoes, but they haven't said what it is, other than it's not a hat and it's "very special".
Consoles release at midnight. Basically, Gabe Newell got 50 thousand people to buy decent to mediocre to purely shitty indie games to get it released on PC at the same god damn time as consoles.
Well played Valve, well played.
This is the best of all possible outcomes.
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I still place my money on the thousands who got the golden potato getting their name in the credits. Or at least the 9 taken people.
and the increases aren't just any golden potato people - there are correlations. For instance, I got mine later and I still am not playing.
I, too, am crying a river over getting to play Portal 2 earlier than I would have otherwise.