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shio on 01 December 2009

Left 4 Dead 2 Sells Over 2 Million Copies at Retail; Downloadable Content News 'Very Soon'

 

Valve's multiplayer-centric zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 has sold "over 2 million retail copies" worldwide since it released on November 17, the developer said today.

"[Left 4 Dead 2] appears to be on target to become one of the top selling Xbox [360] and PC titles for the month of November," reads an announcement sent out by Valve. As the above figure only details sales of physical retail copies, the numbers do not include copies of the game sold through Valve's PC digital distribution platform Steam.

The company added that "sales to date are more than double the original [Left 4 Dead]" and that L4D2 has "already been played by over 1 million Xbox LIVE Gold account holders," with word that "news regarding L4D2 DLC 1 is coming very soon."

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61425

 

 

 



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Strategyking92 on 01 December 2009

err, I do not want to know the terrible problems valve to going to have with free updates for the xbox version.
I am interested to see how much the steam sales were, 700k? Anybody have a rough estimate?



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TheTruthHurts! on 01 December 2009

Congrats to an amazing game. Well worth the sales and praise it is receiving.



Aion on 01 December 2009

That is insane i thought it would hit 2 million by the middle of next year.



 

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dsister44 on 01 December 2009

Why is this in the "PC discussion"? This is also for the Xbox



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Euphoria14 on 01 December 2009

Anyone know the breakdown here between PC and 360 sales?



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noname2200 on 01 December 2009
Strategyking92 said:
err, I do not want to know the terrible problems valve to going to have with free updates for the xbox version.

Assuming I take your comment correctly, I believe the problem is that Microsoft's policies won't let them (or any other company) give out free upgrades via Live. At least, that's what I remember reading.



Strategyking92 on 01 December 2009
noname2200 said:
Strategyking92 said:
err, I do not want to know the terrible problems valve to going to have with free updates for the xbox version.

Assuming I take your comment correctly, I believe the problem is that Microsoft's policies won't let them (or any other company) give out free upgrades via Live. At least, that's what I remember reading.

I know. Pathetic MS has to be that petty. Maybe they could sneak it in as a title update though?



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gergroy on 01 December 2009
Strategyking92 said:
noname2200 said:
Strategyking92 said:
err, I do not want to know the terrible problems valve to going to have with free updates for the xbox version.

Assuming I take your comment correctly, I believe the problem is that Microsoft's policies won't let them (or any other company) give out free upgrades via Live. At least, that's what I remember reading.

I know. Pathetic MS has to be that petty. Maybe they could sneak it in as a title update though?

That isn't true, there are plenty of free upgrades via live.  The problem is microsoft doesn't like to let a good money maker go to waste, so they made valve charge for the second dlc for the first l4d.  However micrsoft isn't always like that, they even gave out a map with their money printer halo 3.  

Valve could still get some free upgrades through, they did with the first l4d, so we will see.



Boutros on 01 December 2009

Wasn't this posted like 5 times?