Portal - Free for PC/Mac 'til May 24th
05-12-10, 03:01 PM
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Portal - Free for PC/Mac 'til May 24th
Not sure if everyone already knew this, but I thought I'd give the heads up just in case.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
05-12-10, 03:12 PM
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Cool, thanks for the heads up!
I can't tell -- since this is Steam, do they deactivate the free copies on May 24, or is this free for life if you install it between now and then?
I can't tell -- since this is Steam, do they deactivate the free copies on May 24, or is this free for life if you install it between now and then?
05-12-10, 03:20 PM
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Re: Portal - Free for PC/Mac 'til May 24th
Good question.
My understanding is that it's for life, but only able to be downloaded until the 24th. That's what the consensus clearly was in the thread I found out about it in. But I have nothing to cite to prove it so that may be a mistaken notion.
My understanding is that it's for life, but only able to be downloaded until the 24th. That's what the consensus clearly was in the thread I found out about it in. But I have nothing to cite to prove it so that may be a mistaken notion.
05-12-10, 05:29 PM
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05-12-10, 06:13 PM
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Re: Portal - Free for PC/Mac 'til May 24th
No excuse to not pick this up, one of the best games of the last few years and it's free. It's a great incentive to get people to atleast try Steam, even if they aren't PC gamers, and get suckered into great deals every week.
05-13-10, 06:19 AM
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My computer won't run Portal, but I'll try to download it and install it as much as I can, hoping to 'lock it in as free' until I upgrade my computer.
05-13-10, 08:50 AM
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05-13-10, 09:03 AM
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Re: Portal - Free for PC/Mac 'til May 24th
I used to be a huge PC gamer til I switched to a Mac. I have a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" with 2.53Ghz and am wondering how this this laptop will do in regards to games being releases through Steam. Not much into high quality of the graphics but more for performance.
05-13-10, 09:26 AM
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Just fine. Apparently just about any Mac from 2008 on should have no real issues. I have the last model Black MacBook with 4GBs of RAM and apparently I'm going to be golden (Portal loads to a blank page...)
05-13-10, 11:51 AM
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05-13-10, 12:19 PM
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Does the Steam version have the extra levels that weren't included in the Orange Box but were included in the XBLA version?
05-13-10, 12:21 PM
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05-13-10, 12:23 PM
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BTW, I just saw this -- somehow I missed it back in March:
http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/
The underlining is in the original and I have no idea what it means.
Portal 2 Announced
Press Releases - Valve Mar 5, 2010
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.
Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.
For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
Press Releases - Valve Mar 5, 2010
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.
Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.
For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
The underlining is in the original and I have no idea what it means.
05-13-10, 05:45 PM
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Re: Portal - Free for PC/Mac 'til May 24th
hmm i tried numerous times to dl and got server busy errors each time. oh well.
edit-working for me now
edit-working for me now
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05-13-10, 07:07 PM
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i just played about 10 minutes of it and it gave me 1st person vertigo. barf.
05-14-10, 08:27 AM
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05-14-10, 11:32 PM
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I just beat the game again. I forgot how short it was. I still need to play through the advanced maps though. Great game.