Can this game company do anything wrong? They know how to motivate their core audience and they didn't dumb it down at all!
Their history with the Left 4 Dead series shows they CAN drop the ball... and HARD.[/QUOTE]
I'm curious what your example is.[/QUOTE]
From the start, Valve promised additional support to Left 4 Dead along the lines of TF2, with updates and free content for the game to give it longevity. About 6 months pass and we get nothing, but suddenly Valve announces Left 4 Dead 2. Everyone is pissed that Valve broke their word with the fanbase and the boycott starts... and Valve takes it serious enough that it fly's out the leaders of the boycott to see this "new" campaign they've been secretly working on for Left 4 Dead 1, in an attempt to get the boycott to end. What they didn't tell anyone (until after it was released) was that Crash Course's two maps where actually made from cut material from the game that Valve took out because they didn't want the campaigns to have a clear connection to each other, but had hastily (and anyone who's played Crash Course can tell how shabbily) thrown together to appease the fan base.
Also, considering they are STILL refusing to comment on the pricing for The Passing and the fact that L4D2 has a
DLC tab that Left 4 Dead never had, it's pretty apparent they are going to be charging us for it. This goes against Valve's long standing policy of not charging PC users for content, but that's not the real issue. Most of us can deal with having to pay $2-5 for the content... we just want to fucking be told that we are long before the DLC hits. It's supposed to come out in the next month, so lets hope Valve fucking says something before they release it.
