If you’ve seen any footage of Left 4 Dead 2, Valve’s upcoming sequel to its Game of the Year zombie-fest, then you’re probably more than a little excited to get your hands on it when it’s released in November. That is unless you’ve joined the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott, a Steam group determined to persuade Valve to make good on its promise to support L4D with free DLC (you know, beyond the free Survival Pack DLC released back in April that included 16 maps, a new Survival Mode, and two new versus campaigns) by offering L4D2 either for free, or at least at a discounted price for L4D owners.
Now before you pass any judgment on the 17,738 people who’ve signed the boycott petition so far, you should probably read the group’s full manifesto first, viewable after the break.
Here it is:
-Valve is a company with financial needs and cannot be expected to survive without the release of new games.
-Judgment cannot be passed on the quality of Left 4 Dead 2 until its release.
-Left 4 Dead was, and is, a quality game which deserves the praise of the entire gaming community.
WE ARE COMMITTED:
-To holding Valve to its promise of free, continual updates to Left 4 Dead in order to build and sustain the community.
-To keeping the Left 4 Dead community together in order to improve the quality of online gaming.
-To supporting the model of continual updates Valve has set forth with its staple products like Team Fortress 2.
WE BELIEVE:
-The release of Left 4 Dead 2 as a stand-alone sequel will split the communities and decrease the quality of multiplayer gaming.
-The announced content of Left 4 Dead 2 does not warrant a stand-alone, full-priced sequel and should instead become updates (free or otherwise) for Left 4 Dead.
-Left 4 Dead has not yet received the support and content which Valve has repeatedly stated will be delivered.
-The release of Left 4 Dead 2 will make Left 4 Dead an obsolete purchase and inferior piece of software after only one year since release.
WE REQUEST:
-That Valve honor its commitment to release ongoing periodic content for Left 4 Dead.
-That Left 4 Dead 2 not be released as a stand-alone, full-priced sequel but as either a free update to Left 4 Dead or an expansion with full compatibility with basic Left 4 Dead owners.
-That Left 4 Dead owners be given discounts for Left 4 Dead 2, should it be released as premium content.
Therefore, we - the members of this Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott - promise to abstain from the purchase of Left 4 Dead 2 until our requests are addressed.
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AgentMark
Attempts to boycott L4D2 are feeble. I've already boycotted making purchases on Steam because their service is awful. I still intend not to buy one more single game on Steam. For Left 4 Dead 2, you can find me at my local Best Buy.
kriegblitzer
Do you wanna know why L4D was so short on content? It was EXPIRIMENTAL. They we're trying to see if people would buy and play a game like that. And when they found out they were right, they started working on L4D 2. And they are still going to make some new content for L4D 1, just to get these boycott idiots to shut up. These people with they're petition and all are stupid and ungrateful because Valve gave us the Orange Box, Half-life , DOD, TF2, CS, and all that crap, and L4D of course, and kept the games mostly updated, and yet these people are whining. Hell, I'm begging Valve to not listen these nerd-rages, because whenever a company obeys just a handful of complainers, you know they are soon to fall. By the way, whiners, you guys are just hurting Vlave and damaging future games by doing this. Why not just get the sequel, do you not wanna spend the money, or do you not wanna part with Francis, huh?
And if your one of those guys who is helping Valve and excited about the sequel like me, than I thank you, because Valve needs all the support and feedback they can get. But if your one of dolts with a PS3 and you say, "I don't need L4D, I can just play zombies on COD:5", than get a life.
smighenns
wow what idiots Valve is still going to support l4d and still provide downloadable content for l4d so why the heck r u wasting ur time making a stupid petition on y u don't have a life and y u don't have enough money to buy the sequel to l4d
ABXPuPpeT
if they had financial problems why not make the game multiplatform, stupid valve
XxkakashixX53
i think this game looks good but the fire bullets kinda seem really cheap just shoot a tank once and just run and hes dead theres some stufff that need fixing but other than that this game should be really good
Sniper4duty
Rather then complain about the content, how about just not even consider buying it, like the rest of Americans who aren't whiners. Valve has come up with a quality game, with quality content, and to say otherwise is blasphamis to the Horror/Survial genre.
djmonkeyman
I kind of have to agree with this petition. As a L4D owner, I expected more from Valve with add-ons and downloadables. They are pushing this L4D2 thing way to early and should either postpone it or have it as an add-on. I still play L4D and I'm not rdy for paying $60 for that. They should focus on HL or TF.
trd_Freelancer
ohhhhh ok!! no one is asking this game for free. Now if L4D2 plays exactly like L4D and feels exactly the same then wats the difference. That can be done by modders (making new models for new boss zombies, that will be tricky).IF there is a significant change in source engine then I wont be able to tell until I play L4D2. And I agree valve is a great developer. Anyway if it still comes out as standalone, Ill still buy it :). And I have no clue if there is any advancement on AI director (the main success of L4D)
MyGameName
@ Notoriouskac
LOL!!! That was hillarious. I played the original HL, so you can't be mad at me for that. I've been playing video games since the NES, and this is usual for PC. New skins = New Game. I don't buy those. BTW, I'm anti-boycott. VALVe deserves money for their effort with this new [insert whatever it comes out as].
grek176
k u these people need to calm down, they are part of the reason some developers are ignoring the people who are playing the game and people bitching about just makesit worse, and come one valve is nto going to give you a free copy o left for dead 2 you must be out of your friggen mind to think that
tcs0
Valve is really starting to piss me of with not providing dlc when people need them the most. they denied the PS3 and Xbox360 updates for The Orange Box and now they're bringing out a new L4D without updating the first one? Bullcrap indeed. I still haven't played the first L4D yet but I'm planning to and they had to drop the second one so soon. thanks Valve.
friendo
Well, I don't think its entirely fair to claim that this is just 'crying pc gamers'. I play most of my games on PC with the exception of the exclusives for 360 and ps3 and I'm jazzed for a sequel. What does it matter that there is a '2' on the end of it? If they released it in two expansions both priced at $25, we'd all gladly pay. Somehow because they bundled a ton of content together and put a '2' on the end, its not worth the price?
Tobi_IsAGoodBoy
I don't support the boycott(although a free game made an outstanding developer does catch my interest) but i do wounder why Valve hasn't even put the first one on the ps3. I played it on my Xbox before it suffered from red ring tuberculous ,my the gods of gaming rest it soul next to the 3 other ones i had that fizzed out.
Ill3gallyInsane
I can't WAIT for L4D3 in early 2010! Seriously though, why not make L4D2 a part of the first game using DLC?
Kstev2018
I didnt sign it but i think its a bunch of bullcrap because im a big fan of L4D. But i can see that they want their DlCS because people want all the goodies they can get but DUDE WHAT THE HELL boycotting L4D2 THATS MESSD UP
dkdcdrgs91
I have to say the petition was thought out in the manner it was presented but the way people are going about all this is wrong. If they are going to boycott this than they should have boycotted, Guitar Hero: Rock The 80's, Areosmith, Metallica, and smash hits whenever it comes out, Rockband: ACDC, Beatles and the World of Warcraft expansions. Also most, if not all, sports games released in the past decade. Gaming is a business and the company can't and wont always make everyone happy, only a majority of people. So unless the petitioners become the majority, and i doubt they will, then valve isn't going to meet your absurd requests.
Adrenalyn915
@ 1mikeg
Who cares about dead servers for the original? When we are getting full servers for the sequel?!?!
Adrenalyn915
I would just like to point out the irony here...
When I was younger, and I'm not old at all (18), their was no such thing as DLC. So, everyone hoped and prayed for a sequel or expansion pack, and their was no question of whether you were going to pay for it or not. I just think it is sad that this is what the gaming community has come to, being spoiled like 12 year old rich kids, and crying when one ounce gets taken away. Valve has been doing the gaming community honorable favors since their beginning, and this is what they get for it?
P.S. - I just hope they start supporting PlayStation 3 like they do the PC, that would be awesome! And I will be purchasing Left 4 Dead 2 because it looks great, and as an anti-protest protest!
1mikeg
They have a point about the impact to the community. Development dollars always trickle to the largest audience and L4D2 will atomically have the larger audience than L4D, boycott or not. While I don't believe Valve will abandon L4D, I could see their content and development support lacking due to the sequel. It's also impacts the community because it competes directly with itself. It's very similar to when CS: Source arrived; a huge amount of the community (independent modders, huge server cluster hosts, and players) left CS 1.6 for Source and the game died, development wise, pretty much on the spot. It wasn't as big of a deal because CS had been out forever and everyone was STARVING for a "sequel". When you take the same scenario and cram it into a time period of LESS THAN A YEAR, people have a right to be pissed and worried about the community.
In short: sequel = dead servers for the original.
WLKNDED
Grow up and leave your parent's basements.
Nothing in this world is free.
And I loved L4D1 ...Can't wait for #2
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