Update: Still No New Left 4 Dead 2 DLC for Xbox Players
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Naw, I got it. I meant I understand the underlying sentiment of the bitchy fans, not that I think Valve are being dicks. It's silly to scream at a company without having all the facts, but it also really sucks when you love a game and, for whatever reason, you're locked out of content other people have.Snotnarok said:
It's no secret that Microsoft doesn't like Valve's way of updating games.(as in giving the players stuff like this for free most of the time) Why else would the PC TF2 constantly get new updates and stuff while the Xbox version is left to rot?
Yes, you still have to buy the game and it's still in it's original form as far as I know.(I've not played it in so long because it just got boring after a while. That and a majority of the matches available last time I played were hosted by assholes trying to make sure that their team won every time)Evil Smurf said:
... The are people playing L4D on the consoles?
Well, that must be interesting.
Paying for content another format gets for free, and getting it later.
Gee, sure are living it up over there.
Well, that must be interesting.
Paying for content another format gets for free, and getting it later.
Gee, sure are living it up over there.
Not to be an ass but...why would anyone even want to play L4D 2 on the console? PC has mods, custom maps, huge community and so much more. Not to mention Valve puts the damn thing on sale all the time. It's on sale right now as a matter of fact.
I don't want be that guy, but it's hard to feel bad for those complainers since the PC version is going cheaper than the DLC alone will cost right now. Yeah, yeah, I know not everyone has a good PC, but if a few extra day wait is so much of a problem to pay through the nose for something others are getting for free, it might be time to look at upgrading. If you're an avid gamer, the money you save on DLC alone will buy back the cost of the system over the course of its life.
I'd hardly call £4 'paying through the nose', y'know.Signa said:
Although it's gotta be said that money isn't always the main reason for peoples' choice of platform. I'm typing this on a perfectly serviceable gaming rig (well, apart from my slightly outdated graphics card) and yet I do very little of my gaming on my PC. Of my real world friends only two others have gaming PCs, three have PS3s and the rest, 20+, have 360s. So when a new release comes out - like Borderlands 2 in a few months - of course I'm going to get it for the platform that will keep me in touch with more of my friends. Would I be able to download slightly better texture packs for it if I played on PC? Sure, but I'd have next to none of my friends to play the thing with.
I'll trade graphical quality and mod support for the ability to keep in touch with friends any day of the week.
Oh, I didn't mean specifically L4D2 DLC, but all DLC. What bit I did imply L4D2 in my comment was more based on the fact that the DLC is costing more than the complete game, which is ludicrous merely by comparison. I'd still consider $1 for DLC bad if you could get the game, plus the DLC for $.50.Grouchy Imp said:
And I'm not saying that console don't have their place. Gaming with your friends is important. However, that doesn't mean you get to complain about everything not being perfect to your standards if a better, cheaper options exists. You should expect that you will be making sacrifices, and the guy quoted in the OP forgot that.
Fair points. I suppose the argument for/against paid DLC is one that very much depends on the DLC in question and what it brings to the game it supports. Not to beat this particular subject to death but this DLC for L4D2 unlocks all the campaigns from L4D1, essentially providing L4D2 owners with a copy of the first game for less than a fiver when the original game is still on the XBL marketplace for £19.99. So to console gamers it's a good deal by any measure, but I recognize that there are better deals out there for PC gamers.Signa said:
As for the angry tweeter in the OP, whilst it's amusing to see how worked up some people can get over something so trivial, it is in some way understandable that some people would be less than impressed with Valve over this as they did miss a stated deadline. And although those of us who game on PCs are well aware of Valve's blind-spot when it comes to release dates, console only users are probably less aware - and therefore more easily angered by - this little delay in the release of the add-on.
Which I'm betting has something to do with Valve wanting to unlock a game for five pounds that Microsoft still wants to sell for twenty, as I mentioned above.
I dunno. As an owner of only the console version of 2, I'm inclined to the view that after four years a game should be less than half price. Still, it's pure speculation on my part. It's much more likely to be something prosaic like port issues.Bindal said:
Release-price of L4D 60$ on console, 50$ on PCGrouchy Imp said:
Current price of L4D 20$ on console and PC, each.
So, it is less than half already. But I am on Microsofts side if that means that the ports take longer to get released (if they ever get) as I feel they are nothing but betray of the L4D1-community in every way imaginable.
I don't think anybody would take the other end of that bet, given their one hundred percent track record of delaying patches.connall said:
while i understand that they want quality control, at some point you have to wonder where the convenience of having a console starts these days.
I'm interested as to why you feel that opening up pre-existing franchise content to new users is in some way a betrayal of the original community. Are the original campaigns to be considered some kind of holy grail us lesser late-comers are not worthy to experience? Of course not. Valve are simply trying to bring their back catalog to new gamers, and that is something which increases brand loyalty. Bonuses for long term fans are all well and good, and are a form of reward I wish more developers would look at, but sometimes you need to throw the newbies a bone too.Bindal said: