You've got to love how videogame consumers reward originality. Here we have a fresh, brand new IP with an awesome gimmick and excellently implemented four-player co-op ... and people are too busy playing Halo 3 to care.
Left 4 Dead is not exactly breaking records in terms of how many people are playing it, coming in at only number seven in the Xbox Live activity chart. It has been beaten by nothing but established franchises with Halo 3, World at War, Modern Warfare, GTA IV and even Fable 2 charting ahead.
Personally, I couldn't imagine passing up wave after wave of infected for a couple of crappy Spartans, but there's no accounting for taste, I suppose. Hit the jump for this week's Live activity.
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Gears of War 2
3 CoD: World at War
4 Call of Duty 4
5 GTA IV
6 Fable II
7 Left 4 Dead
8 Madden NFL 09
9 Fallout 3
10 FIFA 09
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
2 A Kingdom for Keflings
3 UNO
4 Castle Crashers
5 Worms
6 Portal: Still Alive
7 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
8 Aegis Wing
9 Bomberman Live
10 Assault Heroes
The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.
Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Fable
4 Counter-Strike
5 Call of Duty 3
6 Battlefield 2: MC
7 Conker: Live Reloaded
8 Street Fighter Anniv.
9 Star Wars: Battlefront
10 Splinter Cell Chaos
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8:01 PM on 12.02.2008
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Anyone whose anyone bought Fallout 3 for the PC for the mods and community support as they did with Left for Dead.
Actually, nabbing the seventh spot is pretty good position for L4D. It is a new IP which probably did not pop up on people's radar until the demo was released.
Also, there were a lot of Halo 3 BF sales in various stores so that likely had an impact on the activity chart.
I'm not saying PCs are "better" thank 360s but your better off buying valve content through steam than microsoft and xbox live
But people don't like challenges, and L4D is a challenging game. Its like an arcade shooter. So people need to get over it and play this awesome game.
Personally I'm more surprised that Gears2 hasn't overtaken Halo3.
Actually, it's just as boring reading posts by elitist console gamers, as well as posts complaining about either.
Look at it this way:
CoD fans are split in two now, as some have obviously moved on to WaW while others have stayed behind with Infinity Ward's offering. Before the new CoD, CoD 4 was dominating (from what I remember) this list.
A lot of GTA IV players have probably found other games, whether they be Saints Row 2 (even though it doesn't appear on this list), or whatever. Maybe even the new Madden.
You can tell that the Valve fans have mostly moved on to L4D, as the Orange Box is gone now.
Halo 3 is at the top spot simply because Halo 3 players are refusing to move on to a new game.
and no love for Nuts and Bolts?
id rather play banjoo than halos
Duh!!!
PC version 4TW (even on crap PCs)
PC TF2: Updates, maps, mods, weapons, more servers, more people, more people per server, etc.
360 TF2: NONE OF THAT
Its just the facts, man. Don't get bent out of shape with your weak-ass sarcasm is you can't accept it.
And yes, I have Left 4 Dead on 360 because I get better framerate and already have a mic for it.
L4D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Halo
Oh, lets compare an FPS that's better on PC to a console game that has sold millions.
Why did you even bother writing this?
I do not have a PC equipped for gaming, and I also prefer to game on the couch with a controller in hand, so I sadly do not have the choice. I refused to pay $60 for a game with 4 maps, but when I saw the chance to snag it for $40, off of Amazon black friday, I ordered a copy.
Anyway, I'm more interested in xbox live stats the week or two after xmas, because many gamers with limited incomes may have wishlist'd L4D if buying it outright wasn't an option.
"THAT'S why I hate PC gamers not because they get better version but because every time Valve releases a new game they get a massive erection and won't STFUAJPG." they cum all over their keyboards when something from blizzard is released then?
That is where you lost me. Valve needa to give better support both the PS3 and 360 . There is a good market there for people who would love a solid FPS experience. Valve is good company that should try to branch out to the consoles because not every one can have good gaming rigs.
I don't care if I have to pay for updates. Remember, the only reason why that type of content is free is because Valve wants to give incentive for people to use the Steam store and program. It is also their servers supporting the updates and not someone's responsibility. That and PC gamers have a strong sense of entitlement and believe that all of their extra content should be free despite the work that goes into it. See 402's post on the COD 4 Map Pack for a sample of this.
I like FPS games on the PC. I played FEAR and UT 2004 on the PC and I had a lot of fun with them. So, don't assume that I don't like the PC as a gaming platform and I like Steam as well.
Pointing out this information in a thread (read: the one you're reading now) that highlights player-count statistics on the limited platform isn't elitist, nor is it trolling.
Going to people's blogs and negatively repeating this information would be.
As for L4D's longevity, I definitely can see it have a strong online PC following in the same sense CS and TF2 do.
HALO 3 is for console boys that do not any better and that is about as good as FPS get for them.
I also find it so funny when I watch my friend play team fortress on consoles an nobody "understands" the game play,
""what i am a medic? I got to heal people not shoot? OMG! where is my big gun that goes boom? we all cant be spys? what.
Then they go back to halo and the really crappy dumbed down port of call of duty 4 since that is "Deep fps gameplay" for that market.
and the AI and controls in the xbox 360 port is really horrible to look at what the hell did they do?.
I KNOW their are "PC elitists" that exist, yet their few and far between, at least in the manner you describe them. the only super pro PC comments that were written in this thread i saw were by you and others with similar views, who wrote them sarcastically. their are also alot of fucking retarded "360 IS LEETSAUCE" dumbfucks and same shit for sony fanboyd.
people are talking about the fucking SOFTWARE not HARDWARE and how its more for less on pc in this circumstance. pull the fucking stick out of your ass and release what is obviously being stated by people, instead of saying that they really only like PC and think everyone else is dumb, but are secretly just thinking it to themselves. which must have figured out with your over the internet mindreading powers.