Gamers sign petition against Left 4 Dead 2
Gamers from the Steam Community have created and signed a petition that expresses their displeasure with the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2. 15,486 members have signed and agree with the following:
The Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott is a group of individuals who have pledged to boycott Valve’s upcoming release of Left 4 Dead 2 on November 17th, 2009. We have assembled a manifesto outlining the basic consensus of many members of our community.
WE RECOGNIZE:
-Valve is a company with financial needs and cannot be expected to survive without the release of new games.
-Judgment cannot be passed on the quality of Left 4 Dead 2 until its release.
-Left 4 Dead was, and is, a quality game which deserves the praise of the entire gaming community.
WE ARE COMMITTED:
-To holding Valve to its promise of free, continual updates to Left 4 Dead in order to build and sustain the community.
-To keeping the Left 4 Dead community together in order to improve the quality of online gaming.
-To supporting the model of continual updates Valve has set forth with its staple products like Team Fortress 2.
WE BELIEVE:
-The release of Left 4 Dead 2 as a stand-alone sequel will split the communities and decrease the quality of multiplayer gaming.
-The announced content of Left 4 Dead 2 does not warrant a stand-alone, full-priced sequel and should instead become updates (free or otherwise) for Left 4 Dead.
-Left 4 Dead has not yet received the support and content which Valve has repeatedly stated will be delivered.
-The release of Left 4 Dead 2 will make Left 4 Dead an obsolete purchase and inferior piece of software after only one year since release.
WE REQUEST:
-That Valve honor its commitment to release ongoing periodic content for Left 4 Dead.
-That Left 4 Dead 2 not be released as a stand-alone, full-priced sequel but as either a free update to Left 4 Dead or an expansion with full compatibility with basic Left 4 Dead owners.
-That Left 4 Dead owners be given discounts for Left 4 Dead 2, should it be released as premium content.
Therefore, we – the members of this Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott – promise to abstain from the purchase of Left 4 Dead 2 until our requests are addressed.
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I really don’t like this. Valve is VERY good to its gamers, and they have every right to do something like this. Personally, I know that I have played as much as I’d like to out of L4D (for right now), and I was pretty psyched when I heard they weren’t going to milk this one for three years before making another one.
Go Valve.
Valve ftw. So it seems like you just want Team Fortress 2 amount of free DLC from L4D when they are completely different games. LAME.
Yanno I actually have to agree with them to an extent. I think they have outlined decent reasons for objecting against L4D 2. A sequel would render the first game they purchased obsolete, and the promises of continual updates to the gameplay are void as they’ll just move onto updating the sequel.
so they believe a game company is not allowed to release sequels because they bought the first one? So what do they have to say about bioshock 2 or dead rising 2? Valve has been awesome with the game so far. The updates were HUGE projects and I enjoy a lot of there games. And I think that anyone who would be selfish enough to petition against a sequel to an awesome game like l4d doesn’t really compose valves real fans and the game will do just as well without you. Expanded melee weapons new enemies, new cities, even new characters is not DLC I say game on valve lets try and top l4d. And maybe not so many bugs in the first release please.
yeah, i think its more about the fact that LFD wasnt really finished upon release. There were only 4 campaigns, and only 2 of those were versus capable. Promised features like the negative achievement system, and variable director controlled routes through levels were notably absent. The real issue here is simply the lack of content existing for a full priced game. Yes, Valve’s been good to us with TF2. That doesnt excuse this kind of behavior. I’m not buying a new game till I finish getting the one I’ve already bought.