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Valve: Left 4 Dead DLC Was Planned for Pre-E3 Release, 'Didn't Message Correctly'
by Nick Breckon, Aug 19, 2009 1:44pm PDT
When Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2 before mentioning that it would also be releasing Left 4 Dead 1 DLC, it caused many fans expecting an update before a full-priced sequel to cry foul.
Now Valve writer Chet Faliszek says the L4D1 DLC coming in September, dubbed Crash Course, was originally intended to be released prior to E3 and Left 4 Dead 2's announcement.
"I think in this case we just didn't message correctly," said Faliszek to Offworld. "We didn't make it clear that Left 4 Dead was still going to be updated. We just didn't think to mention it, we were focusing on other stuff."
"We, internally, always knew we were going to do cool new stuff, so we didn't say anything about the original game," he added. "Of course we also intended to get the Crash Course DLC for L4D out before E3, but some things held us up."
"I think if we had that out before the Left 4 Dead 2 announcement, then it would have been clearer for our intentions. Losing the opportunity to get that right hurt us, but I think we made the right choices otherwise."
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Did they, even for a minute, elude to there being DLC even though they were making a second one?
No. They didn't.
Is Valve stupid? or do they just think were all stupid...
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In all likely hood its been in development a few months head of the L4D announcement and it was an obvious faux-pas on Valve's part to announce the new title before the new L4D content.
Seriously, relax. It's embarrassing to be a fellow gamer when I read the comments you guys put out. Valve truly is the videogame devil for putting a sequel out 12 months later and still giving free content away for the original title.
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Crash Course smacks of "Oh crap they're pissed that we screwed them, so let's throw something together quick and say that we had been working on it all along."
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I am officially boycotting L4D2 now! What a rip off! >:[
lol
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I can afford the sequel no problem but many can't or won't in this economic climate, the playerbase will separate and the potential for the game and community to become huge I feel has been seriously diluted.
I don't angrily write messages about how ripped off I am, I write messages about how disapointed I am in Valve at making a potentially huge franchise possibly end up all washed out, as the BFxx42 series did thanks to too many sequels too quickly.
Left for Dead is the best co-op game engine ever made for an FPS, it had the potential to be massive, absolutely and utterly massive, with many many addons, either by Valve or the community. Now I think it's just going to be big and then fizzle out.
I am disapointed because it's the first single player feeling, multiplayer game I've ever played.
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I think the game was worth the money as it was on release day, and the whole L4D2 drama is way overblown, but you guys are just digging your hole deeper now with fucking idiotic statements...
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haha, yeah, you know what held you up? Making L4D2! If you can't keep the internals straight with communication and priorities, what does that mean about support for L4D2 people after they shell out the money?
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The toothpaste is out of the tube, you look like a fool trying to put it back in.
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why cant they shut up and let it blow over
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Then again, maybe its me. I honestly don't see the lasting appeal of this whole L4D thing. Its a minor co-op shooter that I got bored with the week after I bought it.
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What the fuck?
This wasn't some press release, or damage control. He just made a comment in an interview admitting that they (Valve) had made a mistake.
But it must be a "crappy and obvious lie from valve" and "someone is going to get fired over the rushed L4D2 announcement" and this is "utter and complete bullshit".
What's really sad is how they have such a good reputation for supporting their games, that because they didn't do it as much as others, they're getting lambasted by fans feeling as if they're owed something. Valve doesn't owe them a damn thing. It's hypocritical anyway since obviously nobody bitches about the lack of support for Portal. The game is even set up for it with menus for bonus maps. Yet none exist - developed by Valve anyway. I don't really care though. Between it and HL2Ep2 and TF2 as well as its continued support, they may not be the greatest games of all time, but the Orange Box was easily the greatest gaming purchase I've ever made. L4D was a good game. I would have liked to have seen additional content, but that's okay honestly. I'm not owed anything and the lack of support isn't going to stop me from buying L4D2.
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"Tell Fans What They Want To Hear So People Buy L4D2" Check!
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