I just want Half life 2: Episode 3. I'd rather them work on that then left 4 dead 2, it's that simple.

PREACH!

but really, he speaks the truth. How many internet signatures 20K? Yeah Left4Dead sold millions, I'm sure Valve is really worried.

WE WERE MENTIONED!!!

Did you just call him The Sess?

Is he drunk or something?

FYI, my above comment is directed at the people that kept saying at the owners of the PS3 how amazing Valve has, but has soon has this news broke they turned 180º; not at Valve or at Sessler.

Thank god someone with a gaming voice spoke up.

self entitlement seems to run rampant now adays.

I gotta agree with the valve don't own gamers anything crowd. They should be allowed to do whatever they want with their series as long as they're making quality games

and like a business, when they do something the consumers don't like, I will take my business elsewhere.

perfectly stated. L4D is awesome and L4D2 is going to be the awesomer.

I laugh at the fact that 90% of the people crying about this will, in fact, end up getting this game.

Even if it's by hook or crook, they will end up playing this game.

@AngryJoeShow

I would be fine with people complaining about it but they've gone above and beyond, they started to organize into group and start petitions to try and stop valve from making L4D2, That's not voicing your concern that's take action based on your own ideas about what should and should not happen.

Video game companies don't own you anything is completely true, If valve released DLC for free then great they took time out of their normal work and did something for their fans, something that's not even logical. Game companies are just that companies, businesses. The point of a businesses is to provide a service to the consumer for an exchange of goods (usually money). Once you buy something from them your relationship ends, buying something from them does not equal a contract of love between you and the company. You got what you paid for and they have every right to make another product.

@Miguelcar808

PS3 owners aren't people.

I appreciate Sessler's attempt to quell the bitching of a certain percentage of juvenile boycotters, but it's not all about whining to get what we want. The motives behind Left 4 Dead 2 is just a slight turn down a different road for Valve that's more likely to lead down the path of every other game out there - but it's not doom spelling yet. For a company held so highly in regard by the gaming community, this reaction should be expected.

To use an old proverb - spare the rod, spoil the child. I enjoy Valve games, and love seeing them do something different. My boycott, though understandably misunderstood by everyone, is just a "hey... watch out" for them.

/end rant.

First off let me say I still love Valve and plan on buying L4D2 day one.

It's not so much that a game company is releasing a sequel to an amazing game in one year, it's that Valve is better than that. With the exception of the new Director, everything could (very) easily be patched in. It just doesn't look (not talking about graphics) like a sequel. Look at Team Fortress 2, that's a sequel. And it only took them like 13 years! It has so many (free) updates added to it throughout the year, it's an entirely different game than when it was first released. Valve should be giving L4D the TF2 treatment is all.

I like how Adam asks where everybody got their sense of entitlement in regards to Valve games and DLC.

The answer is, they got it from playing other Valve games. Valve can do whatever they want. It's their business. But, if they think that people are going to have the same respect for them after pulling stuff like this, they're wrong. They only have so many opportunities to take advantage of peoples' (including game reviewers) loyalty. Eventually they'll just be another faceless opportunistic game company that tries to make a quick buck off of every little improvement. L4D: Smash Hits anybody?

@HertzaHaeon
It might help to know what you're talking about before you cite examples. Naughty Dog is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, so it's impossible for Among Thieves to ever be on the 360. Try harder next time.

LOL Among Thieves on 360. Sony owns their ass (metaphorically).

@JesusNinja

nice PMS Fest.

@Shawn is boring:

"I just want Half life 2: Episode 3. I'd rather them work on that then left 4 dead 2, it's that simple."

Valve isn't a tiny team of developers. They are working on Episode 3.

Et tu, Sessler?

Alright, my only problem is people who oppose the people who oppose L4D2 (take a sec to read that again if need be) are simply saying everyone who's upset about the sequel coming out so quickly is a baby, a whiner, a loser...so on and so forth. I was actually surprised by Sess' relative strength of language. "Sense of entitlement"? Really Sess? Some people just can't afford to upgrade to the sequel almost exactly a year later. Personally, I feel that L4D, as it was when it came out (hell, even now), has far less value than L4D2, and that makes me a bit annoyed. I didn't want to play this card, but hey, I'm not a video game journalist who has these games sent to me for free. It's almost like the whole ODST issue. Would people be mad if ODST was just a short side-project campaign priced at $60? Of course. Are less people mad knowing that they've now thrown in the entire Halo 3 multiplayer with Firefight and perhaps a longer ODST campaign? Yes. You're never going to please everyone; in the end it really doesn't matter which video game journalist is talking down to which group of consumers. They have a right to complain for whatever reasons they want, just as they have a right to not buy the game. Again: this isn't going to matter in four months.

As usual, Sessler is right. Valve has a long history of pleasing its customers (the reasonable ones, at least) and I doubt that that's going to change now. Even if EA pressured them into it, I'm sure Valve will put out a quality product. And hopefully they learned a few lessons from L4D1 and this release will be more robust, straight out of the gate.

There are far better things to be doing than whining. Love it.

I think it's just sad when people make such a fuss, on either corner, about anything product related.

You either buy something or you don't. People are trying to make it personal, like they are being assaulted.

If you feel like Left 4 Dead 2 will bisect the L4D community, then wouldn't you actually feel better off without the people you've pegged as tards' in the same server as you?

Either the idea of the small changes that Valve has made to the formula and new maps warrants a purchase or it f--cking doesn't! You have no obligation, and should feel no betrayal, because Valve was never your friend to begin with, whether you are a part of the target audience or not.