Both sides are a little too heated when it comes to this issue. Most people who voice their concern over L4D2 do it quite aggressively, making demands and whatnot, instead of simply stating a concise point.

Then you have the crowd that hates on the people complaining, offering up other pointless arguments such as "they owe you nothing." That's just something you picked up off some other forum and decided it was a "mature" thing to say. It doesn't add anything to the proceedings. Furthermore, I'll bet at least half of those same people will turn around, and complain about EA releasing a new sports game every year. Oh, and there's the "just decide with your dollar" crowd. Well, no shit.

We are fans, we've been supporting Valve a long time now, and if that doesn't mean they "owe" us, then maybe at the very least it's in their best interest to keep the fans happy?

The best way would be to meet somewhere in the middle. You can say what you will about the content of the game, but a while ago, when a developer released a game soon after the original, with a new campaign, a couple new modes of play and weapon/unit class, they called it an expansion. They felt it wouldn't be right to charge full price for a game that only took half, if not a third of the amount of time the original did.

So we have one crowd that wants Valve/EA to realize that they don't think what they're doing is right. The other believes that as long as the released product is of equal quality to other Valve releases, the length of the development cycle isn't a factor. I see where both sides are coming from. I just wish they'd do it more civilly.

*nods*

@ too many to mention, those of you who are anti-anti L4D2

Most of us wouldn't have purchased the game in the first place if we knew there was going to be a new and improved version one YEAR later. The lot of that purchased L4D were unsatisfied with the multiplayer (and the campaigns are not enough to justify that). The multiplayer issues are still prevalent.

In any case, we do feel entitled because anyone who followed the L4D blog, way back when to where they released the character re-design (that also pissed off most of its fanbase), we were promised more DLC. Out of all the work on L4D we got one new map. One half-assed survival map. The rest were just "unlocked".

I'm still so torn up about Valve, on one hand they have TF2 which continues to make me proud to be a gamer. Then this L4D issue comes along, then they become the Army's bitch by releasing AA3.
Needless to say, I'm glad Impulse is around now.