By the way, I understood the offer as "Play for free until 24th May, buy then if you liked to continue playing". Anyone else?

Of course 10 days is more than enough to finish the game, and since i've already played it once on 360, it doens't really hold much replay value for me.

 

I can confirm this. I never bought or played Portal (blasphemy, I know), and I clicked on the claim, and it appeared as part of the games list on my account.

600kb/s, looks like I'm playing Portal tomorrow lol. I really appreciate this thread

Ah but it requires Steam... I don't want to encourage a monopoly, spend 2 seconds to close out of Steam every time I close Portal, have Steam take up 6-20 mb of my oh so precious ram, and if I don't have the choice to get Portal for free through another client I don't want it!

Oh sorry that thread is the Civ 5 thread.  >.>

1. You're a moron.  Your failed attempt at using humour and sarcasm to point out the flaws in a presented argument only serve to highlight the fact that you don't understand the argument to begin with as you've failed to address any one point of the argument against a Steam monopoly in your pointless post.
2. It's a Valve game on a Valve Service.  Does your PS3 let you play Xbox 360 games?
3. I already have a Steam Account and Steam installed on my PC, and I own several of Valve's titles.  The object of a 'free' Steam exlcusive is to get people who don't have Steam to install it, much in the same way as bundling Steam with Civilisation V is to get into the PCs of people who don't already have Steam.

Good day.

lol Zehdon you are so hilarious. Every post you make fills me with joy and laughter. 

It's not a boycott if you aren't giving them any money. 

 

 breaking up is always painful, but at least I'm telling you on an internet forum rather than in person

Exactly my thoughts. Except the bolded part which is pure retardness. But hey, to each his own.

pretty sure rawrrrr is just busting chops over some peoples unwillingness to install steam, what with it being the devil and all. 

*Scrambles to Impulse catalog*

Oh, right. Doesn't actually seem that interesting.

It's actually more likely that Portal is free due Portal 2 coming later... this year? I don't know, i don't actually follow anything Valve-related.

And after an hour or two playing Portal, i got bored to it. It's actually rather repetive. Partially this is because i've played it once already. Ain't getting Portal 2 for sure (Portal/Orange Box was on borrowed actually). I mean, how is it going to be different? 3rd portal? The basic idea is going to be same in any case (of course this can be said from any game)

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Don't you mean that you love Valve? Steam is just how you get Portal for free ... unless you mean that the getting it for free is more important than the ones that made it.

And yes, Steam is just a part of Valve, which makes either of those choices the result of Valve's decisions. That being said, I like Valve w/o steam more than Valve w/ steam