Boycotters: More Left 4 Dead 1 DLC to Follow 'Crash Course'

Those boycotters should be lucky they got as far as inside valve doors. They wouldn't with the makers of The Halo series. Valve is doing the best they can and to expect them to work at the same pace as other highly staffed and more financially backed companies is crazy. They kept their word and put out another DLC while working on the sequel and peole are still complaining. The gaming community has and never wi be satisfied with anything its always gimme gimme. I give Valve credit for even taking the time out to acknowledge the boycott that seemed more like a plot to get inside info and play time then really address issues. If you don't like it then don't buy it. Either way the sequel was going to make money just based on the fact after 6+ months L4D was still selling and getting new fans...plenty to replace the boycotters. Valve should just keep working and not allow these few whiners to have access anymore because they seem to be running their mouths a lot lately. What happened to the element of surprise?

I think Valve is telling then to much... boycotting a game they are working hard on. Yet still get new information before anyone else. Pathetic.

So a guy complains to Gabe Newell that they need to fly HIM to Valve so they can check out his campaign. Gabe responds "We're boycotting it". And, it is now this guy's responsibility to fly Gabe and Erik to Australia see his mod. Hilarious stuff!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/11/the-boycott-joes-l4d-map-campaign/

I wonder... has anyone considered the possibility that valve is planning on combining the two games somehow? That way they wont split the community, and everyone will be happy. I dunno if this has already been covered, or if it's a dumb idea. Sounds like a good one to me though.

Valve has really positioned this whole affair poorly, but I understand why they are releasing a L4D2 and it is the right thing to do. Valve's challenge is that they are trying to fully service two masters -- PC and X360.

If valve were servicing just the PC, then much of the content known as L4D2 could (not necessarily would), could be released ad hoc, over time per Valve SOP. Valve would know that every PC installation is essentially the same (ie steam).

If valve were just servicing the X360, they would work within MSoft's constraints for the system, release paid DLC, and minor patches. In total, there would be limits on how far reaching the DLC could be (MSoft contraints) and valve would have a mixed bag of consumers, all with different mixes of DLC packages.

But since Valve IS fully supporting both platforms, given what they want to do with the L4D franchise, they need a way to provide both with large volumes of content and establish a homogeneous base upon which to build in the smaller changes --> ie L4D2. The real culprit here are the limitations of the X360 DLC platform and MSoft's business model. But Valve is committed to supporting the X360 audience (its a large audience) and their solution is to create a blank slate.

This only makes me ask... "Why?".

It would appear as though Valve is only doing this to satisfy the huge negative coverage of LFD2. It makes absolutely no logical sense. If LFD2 was a upgrade or a expansion pack sure... but not only supporting both versions of the game as well as splitting the community up makes me wonder why?!?

.....woot?

unusefull culture. thats cool.

we still wating =p.

The Blizzard way of marketing.

You losers boycotting valve are fools. They make games i believe are way beyond their competitors in terms of quality and polish. To boycott them for making a game sequal a year after the release of the original after their proven track record is childish. After all the great game hours I have gotten out of L4D one, I feel valve doesn't owe me a thing. The hours spent to make the sequal has to go be quite taxing, and to boycott them for trying to pay their employees and turn a profit is juvenile. Keep up the great work valve......release another sequal in six months and you got at least one customer

You know what valve should do?

Release L4D2-Lite for anyone already owning L4D1. Let them play the original campaigns with the new weapons, melee stuff etc but old characters. And let them play with people who have bought L4D2 on those maps. L4D2 would include the new maps with the environmental effects and new infected and new mini-finales/gauntlets.

That would work as both a substantial free piece of content for the original game and it dosent fracture the community like a quickly released sequel would normally.

I hope they are bringing the spitter or charger into L4D, anything to combat corner/closet camping.

Simply unacceptable. How do they expect us to keep up?

I hope they follow through with Crash Course type campaigns, re-inserting narrative between each campaign with mini campaigns. Because I think linking Death Toll and Dead Air would be awesome.

fucking boycotters getting all the scoops

More than half of those goons are going to cave when the sequel hits. And excited for more L4D DLC.

well duh.

Crash CoursH?

In before the flame war?

Some people really need to get a job.