Microsoft Adds a Price Tag to Left 4 Dead's DLC

[Chaossebba]

Yay for TF2 and L4D being my very first real pc games i bought.

Jezus, i cant help but think that its kind of a dick move. I feel bad for the guys who're playing it on the xbox :|

 

[Irridium]

If Valve, a smaller company, can keep steam running, support so many games from so many publishers/developers, and still release dlc for their games for free, then there is no reason why Microsoft, a larger company, with lots of money, and a subscription service for xbox live, and didn't even develope/port it, can't release it for free.

Off-topic, to the boycotters: you wanted DLC, go get it, PWNED!

So the boycotters got pwned by getting what they wanted, that being DLC?

Nice logic there.

I think he meant that they were pwned because they said Valve would abandon Left 4 Dead, but they didn't, so the boycotters were wrong, and so they got pwned.

 

[JohnSmith]

What on earth is the point of downloading this DLC L4D2 is on the way?

 

[Knight of Cydonia]

God, I've lost some faith in microsoft now.....I mean they already have so much fucking mouney.

 

[Collymilad08]

I agree this isn't right and the whole "you have to pay for content" thing doesn't really hold up when A)The devs are saying they didn't want to charge and B)Others are getting it for free.

However this is news to people? It's been known for quite a while now that MS have forced devs to charge for content they didn't want to, at least since the thing about no TF2 updates - Valve mentioned this reason back then.

 

[DeadAccountMoveAlong]

Here's the deal: if they charged any money on Steam, no one would buy it. Since the modding community is thriving, you can find other campaigns as it is. There is enough fresh content to never need justfying paying for additional content. On the Xbox, however, there isn't any ability to get such brilliant additions as the Pee-Wee Herman voice mod or new levels, so we have no other choice than to pay.
If both the XBL and Steam maps cost any money, Valve would never see a penny of it through Steam. By charging for one, not the other, it gives them the appearance of the big heroes of the gaming world that they love, while at the same time still profiting from the XBL costs and the evil Microsoft.

 

[Terramax]

news just in,Microsoft is gonna make a new attachment for the xbox that makes you pay 50 cents every time you boot your system.

Thing is, that probably wouldn't stop half of the 360 owners on these forums from still buying/ owning their system.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

HEEERE WE GO AGAAAAAAIIN!

This is the exact same thing as the Gears of war DLC!

 

[Gaderael]

Nothing surprises me anymore. The only thing I'm wondering, is if Valve could have paid a certain fee to have the updates put on the server, so that the player base could have downloaded it for free?

 

[Taerdin]

If Valve, a smaller company, can keep steam running, support so many games from so many publishers/developers, and still release dlc for their games for free, then there is no reason why Microsoft, a larger company, with lots of money, and a subscription service for xbox live, and didn't even develope/port it, can't release it for free.

Off-topic, to the boycotters: you wanted DLC, go get it, PWNED!

So the boycotters got pwned by getting what they wanted, that being DLC?

Nice logic there.

I think he meant that they were pwned because they said Valve would abandon Left 4 Dead, but they didn't, so the boycotters were wrong, and so they got pwned.

They were worried that they had abandoned it, and so were rally support in hopes that they didn't. Then they didn't. What DLC was there before the boycott, in those like 7 months? The survival pack (essentially a re-release of maps)? Do you really think they spent 8 months creating half a campaign? I'd call that a boycott win if anything, not that anyone around here would admit it (bloody knee jerk reaction, media drone, ignorant masses). PWNED!!!

 

[MR.Spartacus]

The sad thing is that people will still dl it...

Though technically, there's nothing saying they have to make DLC free. It's using their servers and costing them money. I'm not going to buy it, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to give away freebies.

So what does the fifty dollars a year for gold membership go to? I thought that was what helped with server costs.

 

[Sparrow]

Eh.

Doesn't affect me. I have MS points flowing out my ears.

 

[Zac_Dai]

If Valve, a smaller company, can keep steam running, support so many games from so many publishers/developers, and still release dlc for their games for free, then there is no reason why Microsoft, a larger company, with lots of money, and a subscription service for xbox live, and didn't even develope/port it, can't release it for free.

Off-topic, to the boycotters: you wanted DLC, go get it, PWNED!

So the boycotters got pwned by getting what they wanted, that being DLC?

Nice logic there.

I think he meant that they were pwned because they said Valve would abandon Left 4 Dead, but they didn't, so the boycotters were wrong, and so they got pwned.

Like the other poster I don't think you understand the boycott.

Their manifesto contains three requests of Valve, one of them (being the only one I supported) is:

"-That Valve honor its commitment to release ongoing periodic content for Left 4 Dead."

Which Valve have now done.

I fail to see how the boycotters got pwned on that one.

 

[Octorok]

I thought this had already been announced a while ago...?

Ages ago. I knew that Crash Course cost 560 MS Points months back, you know, when they actually announced it.

This is a bit odd. I'm not going to complain ; Sure, it pisses me off that Microsoft are forcing people to pay for something that is free on the PC, but hey, it's their distribution system. Let 'em charge for it. I won't be getting it, as I sold my L4D on 360.

 

[Disaster Button]

Big deal, we have to pay $7 for new DLC. I'm a rich SOB, I have $250 in my wallet alone so it doesn't bother me too much. Besides, Microsoft knows we're going to buy the DLC anyway regardless of the price they put on it so relax; save the price moaning for MW2's price tag.

So you basically just said FUCK THE POOR!?

Thank god I'm a PC gamer <3

 

[Irridium]

Like the other poster I don't think you understand the boycott.

Their manifesto contains three requests of Valve, one of them (being the only one I supported) is:

"-That Valve honor its commitment to release ongoing periodic content for Left 4 Dead."

Which Valve have now done.

I fail to see how the boycotters got pwned on that one.

Yeah, I guess I don't quite understand it that much.

 

[ThePirateMan]

Big deal, we have to pay $7 for new DLC. I'm a rich SOB, I have $250 in my wallet alone so it doesn't bother me too much. Besides, Microsoft knows we're going to buy the DLC anyway regardless of the price they put on it so relax; save the price moaning for MW2's price tag.

So you basically just said FUCK THE POOR!?

Thank god I'm a PC gamer <3

Come Mr. Disaster Button, let's go cuddle with our PC:es and laugh at the silly Xbox 360's

 

[oppp7]

The sad thing is that people will still dl it...

Though technically, there's nothing saying they have to make DLC free. It's using their servers and costing them money. I'm not going to buy it, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to give away freebies.

So what does the fifty dollars a year for gold membership go to? I thought that was what helped with server costs.

Ya, but you could say the same for WoW and other MMOs. All of them charge $15 a month for server stuff, so Microsoft is actually cheap.

 

[Christemo]

luckely i dont have a 360. but let my say my opinion in 3 words: FUCK YOU MICROSOFT! .

sorry, but i just hate the treatment you 360 guys get.