Valve has responded to the wave of negative feedback surrounding Left 4 Dead 2, asking gamers to "give us a fair shake" before writing the sequel off.

A Steam 'boycott' group has managed to amass almost 20,000 members, claiming that "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".

"We want to wait and weed through the comments, I'm already getting e-mails, and I'm responding to them," Valve's Chet Faliszek said.

"Looking back, was the Orange Box a ripoff?" He said, on initial complaints at having to "buy" Half-Life 2 again in the compilation. "Give us a fair shake on this, read more about it, find out about it, we've already let people play it [at E3]... After that, if you want to vent, post to the forums. We do read them, we read all the forums."

                                                                             

Apparently the developer was expecting backlash from the sequel before it was even announced, deciding to text prominent map makers minutes after its reveal to let them know that their work would not be affected negatively by the sequel.

But according to Faliszek, Left 4 Dead 2's five new campaigns, new weapons, special infected and zombie dismemberment are simply too huge to put in an update.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=217181

My fellow Xbox 360 owners give them a fair shake

Sony Leader out!

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^where is it ?

I don't see nothing wrong with L4D2 and its a day 1 purchase for me. But that just me and apparently there are about 20,000 people who disagree with me.

I'm sure Valve are gutted about losing 20000 out of , what, 2 to 3 million sales.

I bet that out of 20000 whiners, about 10000 still buy the game.

meh didnt like the first one games like that need a storyline