I don't see how its possible to get 500000 hours. In order to get that, 250 000 people must play at least 2 hours. There are only 20 441 people online now. I think sega is taking the piss.
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Eh, indeed. I thought it would be done super fast, but it will be super hard...
Maybe and hopefully they will lower their expectation and change those 500 000 hours by 250 000. Though it started 4 hours ago, and it's the beginning of afternoon in Europe and early morning in America.
But it's also Valentine's Day, maybe players will have something else to do today ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I don't see Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi... What did I do wrong?
Edit.: Nevermind. It just activated. :)
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Looks like they set the bar way too high for today (although parts of the USA still need to get out of bed). *shrug*
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I had the same thought. 500k hours would be ~ 21.000 players playing any of those 4 games all day long or more realistically 84.000 players at 6 hours a pop. Devide that through 4 games and that would be 21k player per game for 6 hours. The all time high for all of those games is between 15 and 25k simultaneous players.
So the goal feels completely unrealistic, specially considering it's a weekday.
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They'll juice it. The reward contains a 75% discount to a game, so they make money if they give out the reward vs. not.
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I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if they did but it would be kind of easy to tell given we have live stats.
Or we fail Day 1 and from now on they'll lower the bar to 200k hours or something else more realistic.
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Its Sega. They're probably expecting that no one reaches the goal, so they don't have to give out free games but still profit from the sales from hopeful people who buy the featured games.
This is the same company that has 60 euros worth of DLC for Warhammer : Total War for factions that really should have been in the game to begin with.
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I haven't played 1 or 2 but I used to be a big Warhammer fantasy fan and I agree, at least Chaos Warrior and Beastmens feel like they should be part of the main game. Norse didn't even have their own codex when I used to play so I guess those are borderline acceptable as a DLC.
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I don't think norse ever had an army book. Unless they were their own thing before 7th ed, which was when I started.
Norse and Warriors of Chaos were in the same book. The book had the chaos warriors, which were superhuman dudes fused to their armor (iirc) and just ordinary humans who were basically vikings.
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Weird... I always thought Norse rather belonged to my people (Empire) like Kislev and not to Chaos. Although I knew there are some humans in the north that worship the Chaos gods.
When I played (5th edition) the 4 factions of Chaos were: Chaos Warrior, Demons, Beastmen and 1 more which I can't remember right now.
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The Norscans (or norse) are from Norsca, a land that is heavily corrupted by Chaos and many of the inhabitants there worship the dark gods and are ruled by chaos warlords.
Kislev is right next to their territories, and are constantly under attack from them.
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We'll see. Running games simultaniously isn't common for normal users (except if people own everything just idle the games - but this shouldn't be expected as common behaviour)... European people will head back home after working soon but my guess is that the event isn't well known enough to have much of an impact.
I'm sure they'll atleast adjust the next days.
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I didn't mean all 4 simultaniously but just 1 for 24hours (which nobody does). For the rest of my calculations I went with 6 hours per day which is still A LOT. But I was just spinballing numbers because I was wondering if they pulled that 500k number out of their rectum :D
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Looking at the current values they most likely did. Although it might be related to last years' numbers but I don't think so. ^_^
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I hope it's just a delay on the comfirmation e-mail (can't seem to find it atm, even in the spam area)
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Just in case people were worrying about a missing confirmation email: https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/963539034285985793
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Thanks. I have tried several times to get this email but nothing works. But yes I used my steam account so I'm good. Thanks for the info.
I did get yesterdays stuff. I was concerned that nothing further would count now that it started as I still had not received any email.
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downloading company of heroes 2 to help meet the goal, never had a reason to play it since i already have assault squad 2 but now i have a reason to try it :D
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That's the one I'm going to try for this event too. Nothing else (of the ones I own) looked interesting enough to play.
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Already have Viking: Battle For Asgard. I don't have the Warhammer game so the DLC isn't going to work.
I won't be using the 75% discount.
Unless there is some hidden incentive (i.e. a free game) I don't feel like downloading 5 gigs of game I know I can't run.
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You could use sam if you just want to idle. No need to download the game.
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Never heard of that program.
Looked it up and I'm seeing conflicting information about bans and suspensions so I dunno...
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You'll only get banned with it if you have the program running and you're connected to a secured server of an online game at the same time. You have to try really hard to get banned by using it.
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or use a supported tool like ASF instead... it's maybe harder to use but offers more possibilities...
SAM is still good tool, in some ways... :P
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Everybody playing need to play for 15 hours each and they have 6 hours to go :P
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Hopefully a lot more people will turn in in the next few hours, after all it's a weekday. As it is now it's awfully unrealistic goal to reach, just about an hour ago there weren't even enough people to reach 450k in 24 hours.
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No, they didn't change the goal what I meant was at the time I registered the nearly 19k people were hardly enough to reach 450k it was even a little under that when I calculated even with 24 hours farming by being afk or using something like SAM/ASF so 500k was pretty much out of the question. Obviously now there are like 10k more people and it looks a little more achievable but still a far shot. It's a pretty high number for a weekday.
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lol
This is just a desperate attempt to get more people to play CoH 2.
I have it (must have gotten it free from somewhere) but i won't waste a single minute playing this POS. :D
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I think Humble Bundle gave it away for free last year ???
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yep a few months ago, it's the only one i have so that's what i'm playing xD
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F2P stands now for ==> Force 2 Play :) legacy of Sega!
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I'm not sure why so many doubt that 500k hours could be achieved. Currently we have achieved 93% of what could be expected after 9h. But the current 33k players are far more than the required 20,833 active players in average, so the gap should be closed rather soon.
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i have joined but got no email-verification - so i think i will get no games or dlc´s :(
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Hmm 500 000 hours.. I don't think that we gonna make it, we have 140 000 so far...
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What games do count?
store.steampowered.com/app/285190/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War_III/
store.steampowered.com/app/392110/Endless_Space_2/
store.steampowered.com/app/231430/Company_of_Heroes_2/
store.steampowered.com/app/364360/Total_War_WARHAMMER/
store.steampowered.com/app/594570/Total_War_WARHAMMER_II/
All 4? So if people were to idle all 4 (well I only own 3), it would go a bit quicker?
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The 5 games at the end of the page are the ones that count. I think it should go quicker if you idle all of them but I'm not sure, either way I have mine setup to afk all of the games while my PC is on.
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how do you do that? afk on all the games even though no card is remaining?
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You can just specify which games you want to farm. Depends on what you use, with ASF you can do that with the !play command or add the games in the config file for GamesPlayedWhileIdle. Idle-master according to another comment on this thread you can just add parameters with the appid. And last but not least you can use something like SAM to afk any game you want.
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Oh 500000 hours, well, something will be hard today ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I have Company of Heroes 2 and ASF. I want to help but I just can't! I'm not installing the 35 Gb of the game. Forget about it.
I added the line of code
"GamesPlayedWhileIdle": [231430],
in 2 .json files I have, but It doesn't seem to be working. I just don't understand code. What is wrong with my Archi??
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I'm using !play 231430 on mine and it works perfectly
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This instead of what he do
Add ASF after '!play' too
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Does adding ASF run it on all the bots or something? Since I own the games only on my main account I used !play Main 231430 since that's the name of the json file for my main
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That's a good idea, both of my alts have CoH2 so it has to help at least a bit.
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Where do you use !play? What is that?? What are you talking about?? i dunno man i ain't understanding no nothing
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In the steam chat window with the bot, but it won't work if you don't have a way of writing to the bot from a "main" account unless you have a second account you can mark that as main and send commands from it to your "bot" accounts.
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you can try with idle master
download it, then make a batch file in the same folder as steam-idle.exe - make an empty text file and call it anything.bat
put the line in it:
steam-idle.exe 231430
save it
open it
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can i get idlemaster to idle 2 games?
EDIT found a work around copied IdleM files to another folder with second .bat file with different app id and ran .bat file, now have 2 idling
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More thorough instructions if you don't have ASF set up to take commands:
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/0Kk0g63
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Thank you, man. I just didn'r realised there was a config folder! Silly me, but this post covers everything you need to know. 5 stars. Do recommend
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can anyone explain to me how this even works, and what do i have to do to take part in it?
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Login with steam and do allow it permissions to activate keys on your account, it will give you the free games when/if we reach the playtime goal (you still get the 2 free for registering). If you have any of the games that are at the end of the page under featured you can play/idle them with something like ASF to help with the global playtime to unlock the rest of the free stuff.
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I only have CoH 2 from the "features games", my eta is around 24hr to download 30gb just is no one use internet... :(
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I typed my email wrong.... no way to change it? FML
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Try clear your cookies, log in with the same Steam account and enter the correct email address. Hopefully they don't lock your Steam account to an email address until you confirm the email.
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slightly more than 1/3rd of the day gone, slightly less than 1/3rd of the playtime required. hopefully a lot of people will log on this evening after work?
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It only started 5 hours ago. It started at 3 PM GMT. We've still got 19 hours left and we are already almost half way there.
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It started 11 or 12 hours before that as the longest 24hr session bar is already on 11 hours
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Now that the games are revealed, there's unfortunately no chance of downloading them until it's too late. SEGA really needs to reveal the games at least a day in advance for this to work.
Hey, but I can at least rig ASF to help.
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The 'feature' games were available yesterday (and likely however long the event has been up). Granted I'm sure that's still not enough time for some peoples' connections with the size of some of these games but they weren't just sprung today.
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Really? Thanks - I must have misunderstood the website's explanation then. So the games listed as "Featured" right now are the same ones that will be time-tracked for every day of the event?
Hope we manage Day 1 - that's the only freebie game I'm missing.
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Yeah, it's definitely not super clear. The rules say to play the 'feature' games and the 'featureD' games are toward the bottom of the page. Would be nice if it explicitly said "Play these games to participate" or something. Anyway, I could still be wrong but that's how I saw it.
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to help the cause.
someone could explain how the hell idle playtime with ASF ?? Or at least put the direct url to the information, so several of those interested in helping could avoid being minutes hunting the info
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just use SAM its pretty ez and u dont even need to sign in there
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More thorough instructions if you don't have ASF set up to take commands
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/0Kk0g63
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Thanks, this help me without having to read the whole google.com
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https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki
Doesn't hurt read a little
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Does anyone know if the game we need to idle will change every day or will the same ones be used the entire time? I only have the one game and the only day I really care about winning is Friday, but I am still idling today as a help for people that want today's stuff.
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I do not understand, what are the games they are giving away?
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Okay, guys i wanna help to world friendly crowd, i have idle master and CoH2 and DoW3. Problem is both games already without cards, so Idle don't see them. How can i manage to force Idle to deal with these two games? Is it possible? P.S. Don't want to install them.
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Can Idle Master be used to pad my playtime of a particular game?
•The steam-idle.exe application that's included with Idle Master can be given a command line argument of the appid of the game you'd like to idle. For example, if you'd like to idle Team Fortress 2 for playtime, you can simply run "steam-idle.exe 440" from a command prompt. There is no user interface for this, it must be done through the command line or by creating a shortcut to steam-idle.exe with the appid added to the target line of the shortcut properties.
steam-idle.exe 231430
is for CoH2
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you can shift right click in the idlemaster Folder and open CMD here
then insert in the cmd : steam-idle.exe 231430
and press return
this dont work with Win 10 and latest update there will appear open Powershell can be changed over regedit
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It's possible and this method can be use for idling any game.
-Open notepad.
-copy start "" "steam-idle.exe" 231430 (this is appid of CoH2 and you can change it whatever you want to idle. Just paste the appid.)
-save it as a .bat file
-copy .bat file to the idle master folder.
-then open the .bat file which you created.
Idle master should start to idle the game without no install and no login. But dont forget that steam client has to be opened.
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How does sega check if you played those games or not?
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https://www.makewarnotlove.com
Reward List | ASF Commands | IDLE-Master Command
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