Come Together. Right Now.

Sean Sands

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Come Together. Right Now.

The L4D boycott is seemingly over, but Sean Sands wonders if it was a step in the right direction, or a step back.

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Credge

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I wish I could read this, but I get a nice 404 error.

Edit: And somehow I have the first post.
 

Swaki

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404, to bad, the tag line made me curious and the 404 made me wanna hunt down sean just so he could tell me what it says in person.
 

LTK_70

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Is the first post scrolling down? Very weird.

Yeah, 404 has got me too. I'm curious about the article, though.
 

Peace Frog

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Sean's post seems to be dated tomorrow afternoon so something odd must be going on. First time I've found a 404 on this website...
 

MarsProbe

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I guess we really aren't meant to know the future after all.

But while we're on the subject, I have no time for the L4D 2 boycotters. But seeing that the boycott is now apparently over, does that mean all the boycotters have decided that maybe they do want the game after all. Though perhaps all will become clear once we get to read this article.
 

Credge

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MarsProbe said:
I guess we really aren't meant to know the future after all.

But while we're on the subject, I have no time for the L4D 2 boycotters. But seeing that the boycott is now apparently over, does that mean all the boycotters have decided that maybe they do want the game after all. Though perhaps all will become clear once we get to read this article.
No, and it seems people really didn't understand what was going on at all.

Currently L4D is incredibly buggy. Very, very buggy. Versus, coop, survival, all buggy. There are game crushing and ending bugs that have persisted since launch that are most certainly not features. There are severe balance issues in all game modes. On top of this, there has been very little in terms of support or content for the game compared to TF2 after one years time.

Then, we find out some time later, that everything that they promised word for word (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQWylFmqnwM) that would be in L4D is not only going to be in L4D2 (a full priced game), but they promised the exact same things.

Note about the above youtube video. Both L4D and L4D2 are being talked about there, just at different times.

None of this would have been started if any of the following were true:

1. Promised content was being worked on for L4D instead of L4D2. I.E. Weapons, infected, and levels (they've given us two three levels in total).

2. L4D2 came out two years after L4D instead of one year after.

3. They fixed any of the numerous bugs that have existed in L4D since launch.

If any of these things were true, then people wouldn't have reacted in such a way about L4D2.
 

LTK_70

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Well, if I know one thing it's that this article is not about the L4D2 boycott. It's about the ability to rally the gaming community to a cause they cared about, and to achieve a goal with a developer giant like Valve. The obvious question is: If we can achieve this as a gaming community, what else can we do? And why did this ability only display itself by discontent about a game, a game no one wanted because it seemed like the other game was Left 4 Dead. (Am I the first one to make that pun?)

Sorry if I'm spoiling your article, Sean, but I wouldn't want to see this going in the direction of pro-L4D2 versus anti-L4D2.
 

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Perhaps the article will be available tomorrow at 8? Maybe we've entered a place where no light or sound can escape and the internet only barely reaches it by use of "pwnage". Perhaps it's just a mistake.
 

Swaki

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Cliff_m85 said:
I suggest we boycott Valve until they release Episode 3.
since i never really bothered to follow the l4d2 boycott i was wondering, do these boycotts include steam or is it only valve produced games?
 

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swaki said:
Cliff_m85 said:
I suggest we boycott Valve until they release Episode 3.
since i never really bothered to follow the l4d2 boycott i was wondering, do these boycotts include steam or is it only valve produced games?
Why not both? *shrugs*
 

The Great Zegrool

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Sean Sands said:
Come Together. Right Now.

The L4D boycott is seemingly over, but Sean Sands wonders if it was a step in the right direction, or a step back.

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As humorous as this fail might be, the mods still need to know about it.