Why Left 4 Dead's DLC Is Free
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Booker prize winning review there chump.Benny J said:
That's what I thought.Kirra said:
This made me laugh, mainly because I'd just accepted that it's there... Heaving gas canisters and oil cans around and leaving the useful stuff in a completely awkward place. I guess that's why the other survivors left these four behind in the first place?!Captain Blackout said:
AHHAHAH WHUT?stinkychops said:
they were basically new games...
And the reason it's free:
Valve never charge their customers like that,
they said something about if you bought the game you expect to have the rest of the game free.
And I don't and won't ever care if it gets charged for the 360.
It should be clear why the DLC was free: lack of content.
I'm not a fan of the Survivor mode (face it, you die, period), and there's no way they could charge for the two Versus maps, plus fixes (the latter being a *patch*, not new content). The "16 new maps" for Survivor are just edited piecemeal areas cut out of the others.
That said, I'm still a big fan of L4D. I just didn't do backflips over the DLC.
I'm not a fan of the Survivor mode (face it, you die, period), and there's no way they could charge for the two Versus maps, plus fixes (the latter being a *patch*, not new content). The "16 new maps" for Survivor are just edited piecemeal areas cut out of the others.
That said, I'm still a big fan of L4D. I just didn't do backflips over the DLC.
I'd agree with you on that. It did make it feel a bit like half a game. I imagine it was a case of Valve realising how much playtesting is necessary to ensure the VS mode doesn't fuck up. Bad spawns for Vs, etc). I'd say it takes a long time to get a Vs mode ready as opposed to a campaign mode. Based on the fact that they can't control what a human player does.Skrapt said:
I think the reason they gave this DLC away fro free is that Valve do well out of keeping us playing their games until their next games come out. As far as I can tell, they've kept people playing their game since Half Life, thanks to their mod-friendliness. Just a shame community mods don't make it onto Xbox live, now that'd be good.
This makes sense to me. From what I heard the original 60 dollar game was very short and had little story line, but the multiplayer made up for it. Releasing the content for free shows Valve understands the kind of game this was, and that in effect the gamers already paid their due.
This makes sense to me. From what I heard the original 60 dollar game was very short and had little story line, but the multiplayer made up for it. Releasing the content for free shows Valve understands the kind of game this was, and that in effect the gamers already paid their due.
sorry if this is double post
sorry if this is double post
I know that I wouldn't pay for it. Its fun, but I'm sure glad I didn't pay for a massively difficult mode.
The reason the DLC was free is simply due to the horrid backlash that would result from trying to charge for the 2 versus campaigns that should have been in the game at release. The nicest explanation is that Dead Air and Death Toll versus campaigns were left out due to time/money. The most cynical would be that they delay-released it intentionally so their game would have this resurgence in sales mid life-span.
The Survivor mode is STRICTLY DISTRACTION. The mode is very simplistic and all the levels (save one) are cut n' paste jobs out of the existing level content. The entire point of having Survivor mode is to be able to release the 2 missing Vs campaigns as a tiny note under the 9-foot high SURVIVOR MODE text.
Make no mistake, playing Dead Air and Death Toll in the Versus setting is the cake and the survivor minigame is the icing, not the other way around. The icing is simply marketed in 200pt font because it disguises Valve's handing in their term paper way past the due date with the thin viel of new content.
The Survivor mode is STRICTLY DISTRACTION. The mode is very simplistic and all the levels (save one) are cut n' paste jobs out of the existing level content. The entire point of having Survivor mode is to be able to release the 2 missing Vs campaigns as a tiny note under the 9-foot high SURVIVOR MODE text.
Make no mistake, playing Dead Air and Death Toll in the Versus setting is the cake and the survivor minigame is the icing, not the other way around. The icing is simply marketed in 200pt font because it disguises Valve's handing in their term paper way past the due date with the thin viel of new content.