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[Cecilff2]

The potato pack has amnesia, audiosurf, rush, the ball, super meat boy, and killing floor.  You got your money's worth, stop complaining.

[Soulwynd]

By all accounts, even if the game is unlocked right now, can you call 12 hours an "early release?" Come on, Kotaku. This is a launch countdown, not an early release. It never was an early release.

It's 12 hours earlier, isn't it?

I mean, if people are butthurt over it, that's their fault. 12 hours earlier is better than 0 hours earlier. If they spent monies thinking they would get this released ASAP, well, Valve got your monies.

[Tilla]

I will go so far as to say any single person who bought even one of these games just to get Portal 2 a bit earlier is a complete tool. If you didn't want the games, you shouldn't have bought them, it's really really really simple.

[Frajic]

Well this is interesting. [rumor]Apparently the people who got a golden potato will get the Valve Complete Pack.

Yeah I'm freaking jelly.[/rumor]

[Tilla]

Well this is interesting. Apparently the people who got a golden potato will get the Valve Complete Pack.

Yeah I'm freaking jelly.

That's a silly and somewhat absurd theory posted on a random Reddit, I doubt Valve are going to give all that shit to thousands of people

[Frajic]

Added rumor tags just because.

[Draco18s]

"We're not getting what we paid for when we bought these games we didn't want!" crowd (that seems like the comment you posted Draco)

I bought the potato pack?  Where?

*Looks around for it*

BUY GAMES.  $38!  MOAR ACHIEVEMENTS.  GET PORTAIL FASTER.  SPEND MONEY.

Lololololololol.  Marking ploy.  Nothing to see here, move along folks.

I'm pretty sure I did not fall into that trap. :|
The only game I bought was The Ball, because I pirated it, found it to be good, and paid for it.

[Bluerobin]

I meant the comment you reposted from kotaku, not the ones you specifically were making. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Although I guess they didn't specifically say they bought it, I just have a hard time believing anyone could be bitter about this if they invested no time or money beyond what they would have normally.

[Soulwynd]

Well, I'm not saying you fell for it.

I'm saying they're releasing earlier (even if by a minimal amount) and that they did mention playing those games would release portal 2 earlier. Which makes that comment very douchy.

It's still a neat marketing plot and does, very very minimally so, what it promised.

[Draco18s]

My point is, if half the number of people who are intentionally trying to complete the bars were doing so then the time reductions would simply be twice as large and half as often.

The "default boot" might be 12 hours after the "actual boot" time, but that doesn't mean that the "actual boot" time wasn't pre-determined ahead of time (i.e. it doesn't matter what the community did, we'd have gotten Portal 2 at the same time).

[Soulwynd]

That is a possibility. At least the ARGs are fun to follow.

[Calhoun]

Also, because you know, Saving a ton of money is a bad thing. We all know that.

[forsaken1111]

Also, because you know, Saving a ton of money is a bad thing. We all know that.

Nobody saved a ton of money here. The entire thing was a marketing ploy to make you spend money.

[Bluerobin]

Uh, I saved money. Mainly because I actually wanted what I bought, but I guess that's weird?

[Draco18s]

For those people who wanted several of the games in the pack and bought it for less than they would have otherwise, more power to them (remembering of course, that each of those devs took a smaller cut as well: they split the sale price with Valve).

Personally I'd have bought The Ball strait from the developer (or at least paid them) for the Valve price of $10 so they got the full thing (seeing as I'd already beaten the game).  But I was unable.