Good god, man. 
 
Telltale's forums are blowing up with posts about the game crashing, running poorly or not running at all. I had to chime in for the 'repeatedly opens and crashes itself in a loop' thread as I kicked $5 to apparently fund the QA process for this game.  Barely worth mentioning how many times Steam timed out when trying to purchase it in the first place (took like an hour).
 
https://www.telltalegames.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25  
 
There's also a massive thread on Steam forums for it. I mean... yeah. I don't know if they were rushing to beat a Christmas deadline like a retail copy, but failure to launch.  
 
Is everyone else meeting with success or are there problems with the gb users as well?

Even the Burger King game had QA. "Get what you paid for" doesn't really cut it here. Paying 5 dollars for a poker game is itself a bit of a rip, you'd think the thing would be polished clean to compensate for basically charging for a game widely available for free.

God damn, that sounds terrible

I've played around 15 games and the only problem I've had is some (totally expectable) animation jittery-ness. My largest complaint is lodged at overly exaggerated facial features on the Heavy. I'm running an Nvidia video card and motherboard on Win7 64 Ultimate, for those curious.

" @ryanwho: You aren't really paying for the poker though...you are paying for the writing. "

Didn't buy... I see bigger things... but buggy. Never heard that.

I've played like upwards of seven hours and the only problem I have had is the music cut out once. 
 
Yeah I played like seven hours of poker, I want to get all the decks and shit. 
 
Is there something wrong with that?

i laughed at the title, havent had a chance to pop over there and check it out yet but im assuming this laptop probably couldnt play it anyway

Odd. Neither I nor any of my friends have had any problems at all, and I've probably played a decent 4 or 5 hours - my friends more than that. If  I was better at poker it probably wouldn't take me so long to get all the unlocks...

I havint had a problem with it at all.

Well, this sucks. Hopefully this is just a "vocal minority" thing, but if it's truly this bad, I'll be extremely disappointed in Valve.

lol, sucks to be you and all those other people, I have had zero problems running it on my mac.  Best 5 bones I have spent on a game in a long time, well worth every penny.

" @nintendoeats said:

" @ryanwho: You aren't really paying for the poker though...you are paying for the writing. "

and the TF2 unlocks "

I also haven't had any major problems with downloading or playing it. I played 4 or 5 hours and only had a weird glitch once when i changed decks and tables mid tournament and for the next hand only got dealt one card...but all said that only happened once. Really liking this game.

Jesus how can you fuck up a poker game?

I'm playing at 800x600 because it runs terribly. Also, the game thinks an ace high beats a pair of 8s, but only when it's not in my favor, so thanks for that.

" Well, this sucks. Hopefully this is just a "vocal minority" thing, but if it's truly this bad, I'll be extremely disappointed in Valve. "

I've put 5 hours in and only experienced a few minor glitches that mostly didn't affect gameplay.  The worst thing I've seen was one of my cards being invisible, but I bluffed a good hand by going all in and won anyway.  Honestly, I've gotten my monies out of it thus far.

Only problem I noticed was that it was bit laggy but thought it was because of my netbook. Well it probably is. I think its worth the £4 what I paid for it

Been playing for 7 hours total, zero bugs. Also still finding new lines and conversations. I don't know, maybe I just got lucky.

Crashed on me once in 8 hours of gametime, which for me isn't too bad for me as most of the pc games i've bought recently have seemed to crash for me for some strange reason.

I only had a problem with it at launch. Same problem I believe everyone had. The fix for it was within an hour or so of that (and actually I fixed it faster than that). Had to do with some DLL not being seen by the game for some reason. 
 
Anyway, other then that I have had no problems with the game. Well worth the 5$ admission just to hang around those characters and hear the crazy stuff they talk about. I still haven't heard it repeat all that much, so it's pretty amazing how much unique dialogue there is.

Games shipping with bugs seems to be a growing trend in the industry. I don't like it one bit. Maybe I'll write a blog about it; seems like there's a lot to talk about.

" Games shipping with bugs seems to be a growing trend in the industry. I don't like it one bit. Maybe I'll write a blog about it; seems like there's a lot to talk about. "

If you didn't buy this game for the TF2 hat you bought it for the wrong reasons.

Giantbomb combined gamerscore is one of the noblest pursuits there is. 
 
And easy achievement points are why I bought it.

" @ryanwho: You aren't really paying for the poker though...you are paying for the writing. "

I've played for about an hour and I haven't gotten a single bug yet. 

It crashes right after the telltale games logo, so I haven't played it yet. Waiting for a patch. 

" @BlaineBlaine: It looks like in the two cases you gave as examples, the winner was the one with the higher suit? First example, Tycho won because he had King of Clubs and you had King of Diamonds Second example, you won because you had Ace of Spades and Max had Ace of Diamonds "

Hmm, the only thing that happened to me was that once during a final showdown I changed the table, and when I got back out of the menu Max was suddenly on my left instead of in front of me. Other than that, game works like a charm. :) Using a Mac, by the way.

" I'm playing at 800x600 because it runs terribly. Also, the game thinks an ace high beats a pair of 8s, but only when it's not in my favor, so thanks for that. "

I haven't noticed any problems.  I have all settings maxed with a smooth framerate, and it hasn't crashed once.

I've really enjoyed this game a lot and the only problem I've had is the Heavy telling me about 12 time in a row about how he is a PHD, but other than that it's been running smoothly.

" @newhaap said:

" @BlaineBlaine: It looks like in the two cases you gave as examples, the winner was the one with the higher suit? First example, Tycho won because he had King of Clubs and you had King of Diamonds Second example, you won because you had Ace of Spades and Max had Ace of Diamonds "

Suits have no value in poker. "

" @BlaineBlaine said:

" @newhaap said:

" @BlaineBlaine: It looks like in the two cases you gave as examples, the winner was the one with the higher suit? First example, Tycho won because he had King of Clubs and you had King of Diamonds Second example, you won because you had Ace of Spades and Max had Ace of Diamonds "

Suits have no value in poker. "

Except when a royal flush beats a normal flush...