I think it's worth joining in on becauuuuse, and hears me out on this one, Valve are known to be OMGAWESOMES to the community. The Orange Box came out almost 2 years ago and contained HL2, ep1, ep2, Portal and TF2 for £27. They have given us soooo much content for TF2 its untrue. I can't even remember how many class updates we've had and totally needless "meet the" videos that preach to the crowd rather than advertise a game.
I firmly believe that if there's some kind of protest against the shenanigans then the dedicated community that Valve has built up over the years will be a weapon against them, and they will do something about the situation. Maybe it'll be in the form of L4D2 costing a lot less at launch, or a price cut for people who already own L4D1. Maybe they will release the L4D2 platform for free which works with previous L4D1 campaigns (with no enhancements), but the campaigns will be paid for, so servers and new mod content will be playable to people who only bought L4D1.
I don't get what the issue is. It's a sequel a year on, from a company that is well-known for coding loads and loads of free updates to their games (eg Team Fortress 2 on PC) without financial gain. This boycott smacks of consumers insisting they have this special treatment on every occasion from a company that's taken more effort to connect with their fanbase than pretty much every other company out there. So they're doing something different with the L4D franchise? That's their right, there's been enough difference between 1 and 2 to justify a new title. I reckon Valve's good service over the years has built a certain level of expectation in their fans, which in some turns to feelings of entitlement.
I don't get what all the fuss is over, either. Valve fans getting upset that they're releasing a sequel after a year? Are we just going to forget about Half-Life 2?
I think the fuss is over poor value for money. I guess most people (myself included) expected some extra official campaigns for l4d some time in the future instead of having to pay for an entirely new game. It doesn't matter if Valve usually offer better value. Actually if anything that only highlights what poor value we've gotten for l4d in terms of game content.
I see these anti L4D2 movements around, and I think people should wait for when the game is actually released before judging it.
Doug Lombardi, RPS interview
(...) trust us a little bit. We’ve been pretty good over the years, even with L4D going back just a few months, about supporting games post-launch. Gabe’s always talking about providing entertainment as a service – it’s not about making a game any more. That’s one point of it.
Yeah that is a good point actually. I too have played this loads. Almost consistently since Christmas day actually. In fact no even before then, since I was cheeky and downloaded a cracked version before that.
Don't tell Gabe!
I think I've put in 200 hours or so play now. But what I'm worried about with L4D2 is that everyone will suddenly stop playing these classic campaigns and move onto the new ones. I just hope they bring in the original campaigns to L4D2 so the current servers won't just empty out.
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