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| So hey looks like we might get to play this tonight. Pretty stoked! by Hans Clastorp 04/18/2011, 6:57pm PDT | ||||
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| Anyone been following the ARG?
The basic lie of the land, as far as I can tell, is that Valve released a cheap bundle of indie games a couple weeks ago, and each game had had Portal 2 related easter eggs included. The only one I saw personally was in Audiosurf -- I went to play a Caribou song and then GlaDOS told me that I must have had good taste in music, a long time ago, and then loaded a Portal 2 themed track instead, which was an awesome surprise. You could also collect potatoes in the games for some reason. I didn't really keep up with the ARG, but I'd occasionally check in to see the nerd hysteria and edit wars ramping up on the wiki, with certain participants going so far as to search around Boston at night looking for clues, all because of being trolled. The only reference I can find to the incident now is valvearg wrote: Eventually Valve I guess stepped in and explicitly tell them that the game was only online and to stop being trolled, (a statement which itself was greeted with the suspicion of maybe being itself a ploy by "GlaDOS" to throw them off the trail...) And so anyway if you find all the codes you were eventually led to a timer, counting down to this past Friday at 9am. A lot of people thought that this would be when Portal 2 would be released on Steam, or maybe a demo, but it turned out to only unlock ANOTHER countdown timer, this one counting down to the release date, but which could be shortened by putting enough time into the games that came with the aforementioned bundle. So all weekend the community has been grinding the hell out of those games. The pixel-to-CPU ratio on the bar charts was analyzed, build orders were created, scripts were written to cycle the games automatically according to the game currently being idled, etc.., all desperately hoping to unlock the game on Friday/Saturday/Sunday, resulting in the biggest case of message-board blue-balls in history. Frustration was palpable in the RPS comments today, where we witnessed such outbursts as
VALVE LIED PEOPLE DIED. And
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