Portal 2 unlocked early with potato power
The GLaDOS@Home strand of Portal 2's potato-mad ARG has been completed, resulting in the game launching about ten hours early on Steam.
The GLaDOS@Home strand of Portal 2's potato-obsessed ARG has been completed, resulting in Valve's puzzle-platformer sequel unlocking on Steam around ten hours early.
Portal 2 became available via Steam at around 9:30pm PST on April 18. It was originally slated to launch at 7am PST on April 19, so the hard work rebooting GlaDOS paid off in a small way. Of course, one should never have expected it to launch too soon, as retailers would be baying for blood if the dastardly young upstart digital distributor upstaged them too much.
Those who loyally collected all the potatoes hidden across the games in the ARG-driving Potato Sack indie games bundle have reportedly received the $80 Valve Complete Pack for free on Steam, along with Portal 2.
PC and Mac gamers, get thinking with Portals. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players, I'm afraid your lack of potatoes means you'll be stuck waiting until it officially launches on April 19--unless you already picked up a copy from one of the many retailers who broke the street date, that is.
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replyComment on Portal 2 unlocks early with potato power, by Alice O'Connor.
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odd prize, since i guess most of those OCD guys would own all the valve games already
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they aren't, all it does is fill in your missing titles
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This is great for Australian Gamers, it means we get Portal 2 at a reasonable hour on the 19th. I've already remoted into my home computer from work and decrypted the files so it's ready to go when I get home.
I quite enjoyed all the pre-release hype with the potato sack. exposed a whole lot of good indie games that will likely be foreshadowed for quite some time with a lot of AAA releases on the way, and the games are great, well, at least a lot of them are, I've been having a great time with Defence Grid & Ball. -
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I can confirm that the 36 Potato people got the Valve Complete Pack, a I am one of them. Sure, I had the majority of the Valve games, but there were a handful I didn't have, but most I wasn't intrested in anyway. I also have all the in-game store items and gestures unlocked automatically.
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well done!
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If so, anyone with 2 copies want to generously gift one to me? ;)
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i wish i understood the logic to this gold potato reward. i owned the valve complete pack and preordered portal 2.
i got the 36 potatoes and got a popup saying i received the orange box and it would be giftable.
in my manage gifts screen, i had the same notice that i had gifted and the user redeemed half life 2, like 5 yrs ago. and a copy of half life ep1 that was not there, for gifting. i did not get giftable copies of anything else and i did not get all the in game dlc. it kinda stings a bit.-
I would issue a support ticket on that.
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I almost forgot how long it takes to unlock filed =/
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It started to decrypt around midnight central for me, as a non-golden potato person, and I think about 15-20 minutes prior to that for the golden tato people.
I was going to say that is not early in my book - it was still Tues the 19th, but I guess for Pacific and Mountain people it was - every so slightly - early. -
Do you think they planned to release it at 12:30 all along? Seemed strange the way it sped up and finished exactly as 12:30.
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That is awesome, but perhaps you should have blurred out his name :-).
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Not mine, was linked to me so I left it as I got it :)
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