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Valve Fans Form Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott GroupAndy Chalk posted on 3 Jun 2009 5:37 pmFiled under: andy chalk, boycott, fans, l4d2, left 4 dead, steam group, valve, zombiesA group of angry gamers has commemorated Valve's announcement of a sequel to the hit zombie-killer Left 4 Dead by forming a Steam Group dedicated to boycotting it.When I heard that Microsoft and Valve had announced Left 4 Dead 2 I said to myself, 'Hey, that's cool. A follow-up to a hit videogame is about as surprising as a sunrise but I'm always up for a little more zombie-shootin'.' Good news, right?Not necessarily. Partly because I can't afford nor will I have time to play it when it coems out, there will be the inevitable rediculously cheap sale at some point.As for the content already given to L4D, the survival maps are nice, but only 1 is actually new, the rest are somewhat-changed old maps, some rather lazily so.
I prefer the campaigns, but the current 4 are rather boring now. They have been very slow with releasing the SDK too.Hopefully they will offer a discount to current owners of L4D, even if they do put in more content than they have announced. A pinnacle of Jewish civilization in the north, people say, and who is he to argue? Meyer Landsman was fourteen that summer, and just discovering the glories of Jewish women, for whom 1977 must have been some kind of a pinnacle.
“Sitting up in a chair.” He drains the glass. “Wearing a sholem.” According to doctors, therapists, and his ex-wife, Landsman drinks to medicate himself, tuning the tubes and crystals of his moods with a crude hammer of hundred-proof plum brandy. But the truth is that Landsman has only two moods: working and dead. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. I'm confused. I though L4D2 would just be an expansion. What evidence is there that L4D2 won't just be L4D with new maps, weapons, and some minor engine tweaks?
So L4D1 is going to be obsolete already?If the gameplay improvements are just a couple of weapons upgrades and a graphic overhaul, I probably won't pick up L4D2 until it's a bargain seller anyways.If this won't affect L4D1's SDK going fully public, then I doubt it will be such a big deal. Modding communities last years after a game is out. The announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 has caused a significant amount of players unrest at how early the sequel is going to be released. Steam members had quickly created a boycott group on Steam which now has now almost reached 20,000 members at the time of writing.
Valve has been consistently claiming the sequel isn’t a quick cash scheme and that the game itself will be huge and much more than just another DLC.In a recent interview, Valve’s Chet Faliszek said that the project was originally called “this big thing,” and that the content has much more to offer. He said: “It was just like, OK, this is big enough that this isn’t DLC, we’re not going to be able to leak it out. It’s a cohesive, single thing. It’s Left 4 Dead 2.”Faliszek also promised Left 4 Dead fans that updates are still due for the original. “In fact Left 4 Dead one, we still aren’t done with it,” he said.
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“ We still have updates coming. Our focus is always on what we’re putting in the box, put as much as we can in the box. Let’s not worry about: let’s save that and not put that in the game.
Pictures of rounded drywall corners walls. No, let’s put that in. And with the five campaigns, all of them out of the box, playable Versus, co-op, Survival and the new mode, there’s just a ton of content in there.”.When asked if Left 4 Dead had now become an annually updated franchise, and whether 2010 would see the release of Left 4 Dead 3, Faliszek replied: “We do it once in a year and everyone’s like, oh my God! Let’s do this one. Let’s worry about this and then we’ll see.”Perhaps a discounted expansion would’ve been the better way to go but we’ll stay tuned for further updates on the outcome of L4D2.