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| [Aug 19, 2009, 7:32 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments |
Shacknews has an
explanation from Valve writer Chet Faliszek that Valve actually intended to
release the "Crash Course" DLC for the original Left 4 Dead prior to E3,
which might have tempered the unhappy reaction to the Left 4 Dead 2
announcement, "but some things held us up." The L4D2 brouhaha might have also
been lessened had they mentioned this at the time, but Chet says: "We just
didn't think to mention it, we were focusing on other stuff," which he
acknowledges was a mistake: "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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Re: L4D DLC Was Meant to be Pre-E3 |
Aug 20, 2009, 02:56 |
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Man, you whiney bitches are still going on and on about what they promised before the game came out? Plans change, shit happens, move on.
I don't care how much they've supported Team Fortress 2. TF2 is an awesome game, I love it, but it was worth the $30 they charged for it individually, outside the Orange Box, long before they ever added anything to it. Left 4 Dead is an entirely different game. Plays completely different, developing for it is completely different, and the comparison just doesn't hold up. What they've said about planning for DLC makes sense.
You can't just add a new boss infected here one at a time, or add a new weapon there. It would completely unbalance the games, the existing campaigns wouldn't properly support them without significant overhauls, and more. What they've shown for Left 4 Dead 2 so far would be IMPOSSIBLE to add as DLC for L4D in the same timeframe. Even if they took years, it would be impossible. Doing everything in one massive release is the only way to make content for this.
And at that point, they're not just going to release one massive DLC pack that's significantly larger than Left 4 Dead itself completely for free. That's just fucking absurd.
Buy games for what they're worth at the time of you buying it. If you bought a game on a promise, and were disappointed, it's your own fault. By the same token, if Left 4 Dead 2 looks interesting to you once it's out, on its own merits, fuck this historical nonsense bullshit, then buy it.
They also said new weapons and characters were due out as well. Putting out a vague statement is very different to announcing specific content. What the fuck, man? You specifically said, exactly: "So they "didn't think to mention" that they were working on the first major DLC for L4D?"
And I pointed out "yes, they did"
And then you say it doesn't matter?
This comment was edited on Aug 20, 2009, 02:57. |
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