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[Ampersand]

My guess is that the amount of time played for each game is a function of how many people actually owned it at the start of the sale, such that it would take roughly equal times for each of time all other things being equal. TWEOTW probably wasn't terribly popular until the sale and the sudden burst of players is probably the reason why it's going the fastest.

Killing Floor, having been pretty successful already has a large player base and is thus going the slowest.

[Taco Dan]

Hey we've shaved about 50 minutes off the launch time. Cool.

[alway]

The potatoes we all frantically collected can still be collected – in
fact, you are a major contributor if you even collect one potato in one
game. Potatoes multiply that game’s particular power, so if, say, you
gathered 5 potatoes in Audiosurf and one in Bit.TRIP BEAT, you’d be
multiplying EVERYONE’s efforts in Audiosurf by 6x and BIT.TRIP BEAT by 2x.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/15/glados-countdown-is-almost-up/

This has got to be one of the best marketing ideas I have ever seen for anything.

[Taco Dan]

Hey is anyone else getting 503 errors on the ARG site?

[Sowelu]

Hey is anyone else getting 503 errors on the ARG site?

Yes.

[Osmosis Jones]

I've preordered

[Draco18s]

Hey is anyone else getting 503 errors on the ARG site?

Yes.

Mirrored Wiki and Mirrored Mirror Wiki.

[forsaken1111]

Hey is anyone else getting 503 errors on the ARG site?

Yes.

Mirrored Wiki and Mirrored Mirror Wiki.

Both of which still give me 503 errors when trying to access pages.

[Sowelu]

Hey is anyone else getting 503 errors on the ARG site?

Yes.

Mirrored Wiki and Mirrored Mirror Wiki.

Both of which still give me 503 errors when trying to access pages.

The links point to the original.  You'll need to modify the URLs manually.

[Felius]

Curse you pre-orderers. I'll sit here playing with my thumbs in envy, ENVY I SAY, till they do at least a 50% off. 

[Taco Dan]

If anybody cares enough to gift me one of the games I don't have I'd be grateful. I'm not expecting anything though.

[Nistenf]

I think that applies to almost everybody here Imagine some gifting lots or Portals 2

[Draco18s]

Just got pointed at this Firefox plugin which adds additional info on the progress meters.

I haven't installed it, but a friend of mine did.  I don't care that much to know exactly how many minutes are left.
(Although it looks like The Ball, Killing Floor, and Amnesia: Dark Descent aren't going to finish)

[Draco18s]

1...2...3... Kick It! Completed, time reduction: 40:18
(Yes, that's right, Forty minutes and eighteen seconds).

Installed aforementioned plugin on one computer, which gives the following tidbit:

09:01 - Potatoes multiplier: 2.74
09:01 - Currently saving: 31.110 Hours
Monday, April 18, 2011 2:54:11 AM (Eastern) - Portal 2 released

The plugin is figuring out which cycles will complete and about how much time they'll knock off, apparently.

[Ampersand]

Clearly, the amount of time each game gives is not the same, probably also a function of how many players the individual games had at the start of the sale. My guess is that the time reduction gained by Killing floor is going to be the most massive. It seems like it's building up to possibly releasing the game at most a day earlier.