I would move it to 2010 for a smart business plan. Seriously how many people are going to drop L4D for L4D2? If the L4D community doesn't all upgrade they'll be splitting the population.. it doesn't make sense to do that.

lol im still waiting for L4D1 to get to $19.99 so i can buy it =)

there were free updates to paradise city that were in excess of 900 megs? how large  do they have to make one download? could they no have split it up, the 3 free updates i had to paradise city together weighed in at 2.6 gig 

though i will say i paradise cities case each update replaced the last i think the most recent one is 986 megs

Doesn't this development make you want to wait instead?

This is exactly why I said they'd be splitting the population. It doesn't make sense to support 2 games that are practically the same game. It's not even like the 1st one is done selling.

could they not make it to where l4d1 is built into l4d2.  patch the game so it searches both copies, honestly I think this might even be a case for download at launch game where they could update the past title and link the two togeather in terms of searching for a game.

or as you claim it could split the community ... but i see both vegas and vegas 2 doing well and cod4 and cod waw doing well for matches so i doubt it will be a problem 

When he says community he's talking about a lot more than matches. In PC games, the community is about playing games, organizing events, setting up servers, developing maps, mods and dev tools and probably more things.

yeah blame MS for realeasing too early or delaying a game these days :P

Was Vegas and Vegas 2 a year apart? I don't know about that one.

And CoD is CoD... its got a huge fan base... definitly big enough to populate 3 games.

why do people care? if it makes them feel better they can just call it a expansion pack