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PORTALOL
« on: October 03, 2007, 04:12:38 am »
you can preload portal now kthxbai
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2007, 05:01:38 am »
Shock.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2007, 11:23:19 am »
OMGz012zzzzzzzz

i have no idea what portal is? ill look it up now
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2007, 08:17:14 pm »
Wake...
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2007, 11:45:04 pm »
wow Wake..lol

I dunno if I'm gonna by portal, just doesn't seem to interest me that much. But I'll preload anyways incase I hear good reviews about it. :)
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2007, 11:50:30 pm »
Ya I preloaded that yesterday after noon. I preloaded HL2 EP2 too earlier today
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2007, 01:33:50 am »
HL2: Orange Box is going to be epic.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2007, 03:47:58 am »
I dunno.  They're buffing the HL2 sales figures by packing it in and selling to people who already have it.  Ep 1 was kinda cute, but I felt really screwed when I realised that trivial battle was the big finish.  (The sheet metal caused me to get blown up more than the foe)  TF2 is amusing but it doesn't really hook me.  Portal is an unknown quantity, and that's pretty much the kaboodle.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2007, 03:48:46 am »
eh, for $45 3 games is fine by me, plus the 2 I can give away
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2007, 06:54:06 am »
Put the games in another account and then you can lend that account out to friends. If they do decide to buy the orange box as a result, they will not be pissed that they are "buying HL2 over again" because it's still yours. You can repeat this with many friends.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2007, 10:55:51 am »
Hence, you are an unpaid salesman who fights to keep Gabe's KFC bucket filled.

What's to do when tonnes of people have these loaner HL2 accounts?  Use them to get people to try out GES or something?  Naaah.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2007, 10:56:09 am »
Quote from: Polizei on October 04, 2007, 06:54:06 am
Put the games in another account and then you can lend that account out to friends. If they do decide to buy the orange box as a result, they will not be pissed that they are "buying HL2 over again" because it's still yours. You can repeat this with many friends.
or sell the keys themselves.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2007, 03:34:26 pm »
Quote from: Viashino Cutthroat on October 04, 2007, 10:55:51 am
Hence, you are an unpaid salesman who fights to keep Gabe's KFC bucket filled.

What's to do when tonnes of people have these loaner HL2 accounts?  Use them to get people to try out GES or something?  Naaah.

I'm sure everyone has a friend who would love HL2 but just won't bother to pay for it. Some of us even have several friends in the same position. You're not so much a salesman as a pusher; as D.A.R.E. taught us, peer pressure only leads to good things/supporting terror. So where would you rather your dollar go? Paying the bills? Why not do something flashy, something with pizzaz? 50/50 shot, KFC or WW3. It's win/win. And your friends get to play, too! It's more like win/win/win.
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2007, 08:24:36 pm »
Well just think of it valve is actually pretty smart. You buy the orange box already owning hl2 and ep1. You give your keys to a friend he/she plays through them and says wow this is a great series. They buy the orange box and pass along their extra keys and so on and so forth. The steam population is going to be exponentially growing after the orange box release on pc. Console idiots don't get steam :)
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Re: PORTALOL
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2007, 08:48:08 pm »
I think the complaint is that this is an evil business tactic. There's no question in anyone's mind that valve has that intent, the preloading page itself suggests you gift the copies. I am merely presenting a workaround that gives you yourself more control over who is being brought into the steam community.
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