Poll: Did you buy the steam potato sack purely to try and get portal 2 released early?

Did you buy the potato sack pack purely to try and get portal 2 released early with no desire for th

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To settle the "omg steam are conning people" complaints in the portal thread.

So did you buy the potato sack pack purely to try and get portal 2 released early with no desire for the games included in the pack?

Can we have a poll with the options


Yes, I bought them just to try for early release.
No, I bought them because I wanted them.
No, I didn't buy them.
I already had them.



Also can you make it the public view poll so we can see who voted for each category?
 
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Nope didn't buy the pack. Already have a few of the games because they are rather good (KF, The Ball, SMB, Defence Grid & Audiosurf) and didn't want any of the others so didnt buy them.

Did play them over the last week though, not because of the Portal 2 release thing directly but because the updates are rather nice, The Ball and Killing Floor in particular & I was curious to see what was happening in the others. Plus I'm still actually playing through SMB.

If I hadn't already got those games, the only one that I would have been tempted to pick up because of the updates/event would have been the Ball as it was a rather cool and sizeable idea for an update, though it was cheaper during the Christmas sales and if I didn't pick it up then at £3.75 I doubt I would have picked it up now at double the price just because of the update.
 
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Didn't buy it, as the only 2 games in the pack I wanted (Defence Grid, and Meat Boy) I already owned.
 
Got most of the games so did not bother. Would not ever have dreamt of buying it just to get Portal2 released early though. If anybody did, they have more money than sense (and are a bit dim).
 
lol @ thread. Nobody is saying valve conned anyone, purely that it was a marketing ploy with an open-ended goal and unclear system so that people could interperate how they chose to.

- goodluck finding anyone whos going to admit they bought the sack with the hope of getting an early release and taking a chance on the games included for that reason.

We all know nobody is going to come here and say that, so this thread is purely to reaffirm your misguided opinion that absolutely nobody has done that, and created with you knowing that people coming here stating that it was the reason for their purchase is highly unlikely, due to the ridicule it is so obvious that they would recieve.
 
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Deific said:
lol @ thread. Nobody is saying valve conned anyone, purely that it was a marketing ploy with an open-ended goal and unclear system so that people could interperate how they chose to.
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2 days the early release stuff, the pack's been out for a lot longer than that...
 
I bought it on the 2nd just after it was released, no clue about an early portal 2 release and the ARG stuff was still pretty much undiscovered. For a few reasons.

1. After the junk that was Crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2 I wanted to support indie devs
2. I wanted to buy Super Meat Boy
3. The other games + the updates looked cool :)

However I did put a huge amount of effort in over the weekend because of the whole release P2 early thing! I'm not sure my GF agrees the golden potato is something to be proud of ;)
 
Tefal said:
2 days the early release stuff, the pack's been out for a lot longer than that...
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Doesn't change that it was included as part of the entire marketing strategy. The whole reboot system + potato sack strategy wouldn't have been carried out unless valve thought it would sell on the premise of people wanting to contribute towards early release - It was a marketing strategy, thus created for the intent purpose of generating profit. Plus, the sack sold considerably more after the 'early release' announcement, than it did before it.
 
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