I jumped into it with both feet. I followed every step and it was a lot of fun. My girlfriend and I eventually amassed all 36 possible potatoes and got the Valve Complete Pack as a prize.
I do see you managed to pick up two though regardless of trying
Precisely two (Deathmatch Classic and Ricochet). I did, however, get extra copies of all the other games (including Portal 2), so I'm seeing how I'll divvy those up.
My opinion on basically all preorder stuff: if it isn't going to be around forever, there's no point.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Really though, it's just annoying. That old detective game that had the "real world" innovation of a bunch of web sites and an e-mail server? I kinda wish I'd finished it at the time, because all those sites are down at this point, so the game's incomplete. A puzzle game is pretty much worthless if I just use an FAQ, so in the end I wasted my money. This is the digital age, there's really no excuse for scarcity of anything.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)