**Official Portal 2 thread**

[Tefal]

yet the timer hasn't gone down

 

[maxilive]

I don't think this is going to be fast, expect Sunday evening-Monday

 

[trigger-happy]

it doesn't update in real time, It only seems to update every 5-10 minutes or so

*edit* Just had an update and there is a massive boost to the numbers playing

yea I realised. thanks god for that announcement on the portal 2 steam group.

 

[Substance]

apparently according to the IRC chat it is how long the games are played for and not how many people are playing at once,

Also the time looks like it will go down by a set chunk once each of the games are filled up

 

[thecremeegg]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1837478

 

[ic1male]

So it seems when enough time has been spent playing one of the 13 games and the bar is filled up, the timer will reduce by an hour, two hours, five hours? Who knows...

 

[Jongo]

So it seems when enough time has been spent playing one of the 13 games and the bar is filled up, the timer will reduce by an hour, two hours, five hours? Who knows...

The timer just shows the time till its normal release date afaik. The game is released when the computations bar fills up.

 

[mrbios]

apparently according to the IRC chat it is how long the games are played for and not how many people are playing at once,

Winner, i'll just leave audiosurf running in the background while i do other things

 

[maxilive]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1837478

As you can see he was proven wrong

It shall all be serverside with some clever maths but ultimately under the control of Valve just in case some finds a glitch which may cause the timer to spas out etc. My guess is they are just taking it from steam stats though on how many people are player a certain game, then add it all up = 2% complete etc. Like I said before I bet it's going to be at least 24 hours and maybe 48 hours before it's done.

 

[Aedus]

The funniest thing about this all?

The console versions are leaked and the PC version is not.
So the tired old argument of it only being PC gamers which are pirates really doesn't have a stand anymore, it even looks to be the console gamers which are WORSE, shock horror.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Ha

Now it's showing current number of players in certain games, the more people playing, the quicker the countdown goes down.

Everyone fire up Defence Grid!

This,

It has five potatoes, four of which are easily attainable.

 

[trigger-happy]

actually the status bar is fulling up quite fast

 

[Substance]

down to 93 hours from 98 already

 

[richb93]

Play games, earn potatoes.

Got one from the BIT TRIP BEAT game, as well as a weird voice clip

 

[tom113]

Redownloading Defense Grid as we speak

 

[Vulcan]

down to 93 hours from 98 already

I'm pretty sure it started on 94?

 

[Evilsod]

Probably something to do with the total amount sold.

If that is the case, i'm firing up Cogs

Unless people are playing some Killing Floor? Wouldn't mind completing Aperture Science on Suicidal/Hell on Earth.

 

[mattjd]

Anyone know any good beginner servers on killing floor?

 

[maxilive]

Hmm just read something that made some sense in my head but I have no idea if its right or not

The potatoes could mean the speed in which the bar progresses so we are currently moving 124 thousand times faster per a CPU than we should be and then the more people playing a current game the faster the bar will move. I think the bars are also different per a games taken from previous Steam stats as killing floor is probably one of the most played games per a person per an hour compared to the likes of The Wonderful End of The World which will have least time spent on it.

Basically folding @ home with a multiplier and helping gamers have fun!

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

If you see any of your fellow Steam friends playing non potato games kindly slap them then tell them to get their ass into a potato game now!

Thank you.