Valve Fans Form Left 4 Dead 2 Support Group
Valve [http://www.valvesoftware.com/] fans worried that the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott group might hurt Gabe Newell's feelings have formed a Steam Community of their own, the L4D2 Enthusiasts, with the aim of letting everyone know that the upcoming zombie thriller will in fact be awesome.
Fair is fair, I suppose, and with over 32,000 members and plenty of media coverage for the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2boycott] it was only a matter of time before some enterprising soul put together a group supporting Valve's decision to not take half a decade to put out a sequel to a hit game. Thus we now have the L4D2 Enthusiasts, otherwise known as Yes-L4D2, a group of gamers who are actually looking forward to the release of the new game.
The site's founder makes a point of saying that while the group was formed in response to complaints about Left 4 Dead 2 [http://www.l4d.com/], it's not about simply trying to shout them down. "This isn't just a group created against the L4D2 Boycott group," the founder wrote on the main page, "it's also a group for Left 4 Dead 2 enthusiasts."
With membership currently around 350, the enthusiasts have a long way to go to catch up to the boycott group and it's hard to say whether "we like Valve," which doesn't have a groundswell of anger to tap into, will be enough to attract comparable numbers. Either way, I'm hopeful, probably unreasonably so, that once the initial poo-flinging is over the two sides can actually discuss the upcoming game in a rational and productive manner. Wouldn't that be nice?
Check out the Left 4 Dead 2 Enthusiasts group at steamcommunity.com [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2Enthusiasts?action=join].
via: CVG [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=217781]
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Valve [http://www.valvesoftware.com/] fans worried that the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott group might hurt Gabe Newell's feelings have formed a Steam Community of their own, the L4D2 Enthusiasts, with the aim of letting everyone know that the upcoming zombie thriller will in fact be awesome.
Fair is fair, I suppose, and with over 32,000 members and plenty of media coverage for the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2boycott] it was only a matter of time before some enterprising soul put together a group supporting Valve's decision to not take half a decade to put out a sequel to a hit game. Thus we now have the L4D2 Enthusiasts, otherwise known as Yes-L4D2, a group of gamers who are actually looking forward to the release of the new game.
The site's founder makes a point of saying that while the group was formed in response to complaints about Left 4 Dead 2 [http://www.l4d.com/], it's not about simply trying to shout them down. "This isn't just a group created against the L4D2 Boycott group," the founder wrote on the main page, "it's also a group for Left 4 Dead 2 enthusiasts."
With membership currently around 350, the enthusiasts have a long way to go to catch up to the boycott group and it's hard to say whether "we like Valve," which doesn't have a groundswell of anger to tap into, will be enough to attract comparable numbers. Either way, I'm hopeful, probably unreasonably so, that once the initial poo-flinging is over the two sides can actually discuss the upcoming game in a rational and productive manner. Wouldn't that be nice?
Check out the Left 4 Dead 2 Enthusiasts group at steamcommunity.com [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2Enthusiasts?action=join].
via: CVG [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=217781]
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