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Hierofan
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If they won't get any 'help' at 80 or 90% there won't any help at all...
If Valve expected this to run smoother and alot faster then really expected alot more than was achieveable.
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 08:16 Post subject: |
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I love valve
Haters gonna hate
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Hierofan
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Frant
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 09:05 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 09:23 Post subject: |
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Just pre-loaded this sucker on steam... Can't wait to play it. 
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 09:40 Post subject: |
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| Dunge wrote: | | I personally think messing with some release countdown and such is stupid. If the game is finished, release it already, stop wasting time making some hype pub and use the resource to make the game better. Plus they use it as an opportunity to make more sales for other games, as if it would make a difference at all on the release date. I'm all for helping indie devs, but this is stupid. Sorry, my frustrated two cents. |
The game has been finished 1 month ago. It's stupid to say they should release it as soon as it's done.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 09:45 Post subject: |
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| rayida wrote: | My guess is it will release early, but no matter what happens, it will not release any earlier than 00:01 (some US time zone) Tuesday am. Valve (or EA in the case of hardcopies?) presumably have written agreements with retailers that they must not sell the game prior to a particular date - in turn, retailers will expect that steam not release the game for purchase prior to the time that they are permitted to sell it. The compromise is, if a retailer wishes to open their doors for a midnight launch on the 19th they can, similarly, if valve wish to release it after midnight on the 19th, they can too.
EDIT: this correlates with the graph at the link posted by tskiller a couple of posts above. At the moment, it's pointing to it finishing 7 hours ahead of schedule. But given that people are focussing on certain games, as less games need to be completed, that countdown should decrease exponentially - if my mumblings above are correct, that won't happen. |
How do you know it wasn't on their contract they reserve the right to release it up to 1-2 days earlier? A lot of planning went into this.
Furthermore Steam is their own store perhaps the rules don't apply there because they self publish it. For example preloading is in a sense breaking the release date.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 09:48 Post subject: |
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| tskiller wrote: | Is playing the games even having any real effect on getting an early release?
If this graph is to be believed, progress has been nearly linear and shows no correlation between amount of people playing the games in the potato sack, and no significant jumps upon game completion.
http://cpucount.zapto.org/ |
Valve has responded: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=21851599&postcount=244
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 10:07 Post subject: |
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I say it was all preplanned to release at midnight with the ARG being a ruse to sell more tater sacks.
Currently the timer expires about 4:30am EST on tuesday. If you figure the average decrease for each game so far times what is left it's pretty damn close to midnight.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 10:25 Post subject: |
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| Lordas wrote: | Well the counter of GlaDOS@home says 24:19:57... and that points to precisely 11.30PM tonight (GMT+2)
30mins earlyer than 19th lol (in my timezone atleast ) |
Don't forget that in Europe the game would have been unlocked on the 21st. |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 10:31 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:04 Post subject: |
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| Pl@tinum wrote: | | Hierofan wrote: | | Lordas wrote: | Well the counter of GlaDOS@home says 24:19:57... and that points to precisely 11.30PM tonight (GMT+2)
30mins earlyer than 19th lol (in my timezone atleast ) |
Don't forget that in Europe the game would have been unlocked on the 21st. |
Steam always pointed for a 19th release for me in Portugal. |
same in Germany...
afaik the global release-date is the 19th...
| |IcedFreon| wrote: | | lol you're done wih the game? already ??????? jesus. ppl havent even finished downloading it yet |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:06 Post subject: |
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Original release-date in Sweden is supposed to be the 20th... :O
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:08 Post subject: |
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19th here also (Europe) and that was always the time Valve planned it for release. However, it would've been roughly 17:00 GMT +0 before release and thats earlier now.
PC: Yes. Console: No.
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:10 Post subject: |
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The EU retail date for physical copies is April 21st, Steam unlocks the game worldwide on April 19th.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:17 Post subject: |
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| me7 wrote: | | The EU retail date for physical copies is April 21st, Steam unlocks the game worldwide on April 19th. |
Steam says 20th for me, now, as it stands it would unlock around 7-8am tommorow |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:32 Post subject: |
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| Hierofan wrote: | | me7 wrote: | | The EU retail date for physical copies is April 21st, Steam unlocks the game worldwide on April 19th. |
Steam says 20th for me, now, as it stands it would unlock around 7-8am tommorow |
Are you living in some time zone that's far off GMT? My Steam still says April 19th, 1 day and 5 hours to go, which is ~April 19th 17:00 over here.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:36 Post subject: |
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For a very long time the Steam unlock date was the 18th while the US retail date was the 19th.
Recently they changed the Steam date to match the retail US, but thanks to the ARG it seems it will revert to the 18th again 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:42 Post subject: Half-Life : Ep 3????? |
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demde
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:54 Post subject: |
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Maybe retail version will be released on 21st in Europe and digital copy will be unlocked on 19.I hope tomorrow will have release.What protection will it use?Steam + CEG?
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 11:57 Post subject: |
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Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if it'll take a few days to crack..
L4D2 still doesn't have a non-nuked scene release (it's been cracked by P2P though)..
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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garus
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 12:03 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Apr 2011 12:10 Post subject: |
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| consolitis wrote: | Stores are breaking the release date even for the PC version (we already knew about the console ver):
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If they are allowed to do it, then surely Valve can release it as early as they want. |
But even retail steam games have to be authenticated via steam at least the 1st time, or did they change that? (last retail-steam game I played was Lost Planet 1). If so, even if they sold it months before launch it wouldn't be anything more than a preload for all intents and purposes.
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