someones be slippin on da live doeg.

valve is retarded if this is true. this has to be fake/staged.

Oh well, I guess if anyone can make a sick sequel, it would be Valve. I am also looking forward to the official announcement.

Of all the games to make a sequel to, and not just release new map dlc they pick this. Christ, so there goes the hope of new dlc maps I suppose. I guess this shows that the original L4D was viewed as a proof of concept for this sequel by Valve. I've got my moneys worth out of L4D, but still feel a little screwed by having to get a new $60 game instead of $10-$20 for some new scenarios for the game I own. Please excuse my negative attitude, but is it just me, or is this retarded on multiple levels?

Also, I think Left 4 Dead Too is the better name choice here.

hey Valve, EAT A DICK. I'm not paying 60 bucks or 50 bucks for your lack of update and screwing us all by making us buy a new game. For what its worth, I'll just wait for it to show up for 50% off on Steam. For SHAME VALVE, FOR SHAME! What really sucks is for you console peeps. You get shafted without being able to play custom maps, which make the game 1000x better. Sorry for your luck gents.

You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.

Looked like New Orleans is a level, potentially, judging from the trailer from the conference. I'm interested.

ok its true. I'm shitting bricks... to throw at valve.

The one group of people that seems to be missing in most of the comments on the boycott group site and the articles on the web are the server owners.

As a server owner, I support L4D by paying for 4 West Coast servers out of my own pocket that have had in total roughly 17000 players since they were started 4 months ago. As well, I work for a server company that provides numerous servers for TF2, L4D, CS:S and other Valve games.

One disturbing trend I have seen is the daily cancellation of L4D servers. Since the 'Survival Pack' the company I work for has seen a 70% increase in server cancellations of servers that service Central North America and the West Coast. That number increases daily.

The biggest drop was right after the 'Survival Pack' when people began to realize how minor the changes actually were. Most people played Survival mode until they got the achievements and then moved back to Co-op or Versus. We lost 45% of the servers within days of that release.

The second spike was right after the news about L4D2. That was about 20% of the servers. The other 5% has been just due to attrition since the DLC was released.

Now, obviously there have been new servers started, but the total loss of server coverage totals about 70% in the company I work for, and I work for a little hole in the wall company no one even knows about. In actual numbers that means about 110 servers are now shut down in the past couple months with my employer alone. I wonder how this has affected Gameservers or Darkstar.

I should mention that most of the people canceling servers have been very vocal about why they're canceling them, and I agree with the majority of their reasons, especially about the release of L4D2.

So, I pose this question to you, do you think splitting the games community base will increase or decrease the number of servers for both games?

Secondly, do you think server owners that are canceling their servers because they feel that they've been burned by Valve (No significant DLC since release, SDK pushed back for months, the lackluster and pointless 'Survival Pack' and now releasing L4D2) will be rushing out to start a L4D2 server?

The answers are pretty obvious.

All you flame-baiters screaming about the boycott group being a bunch of whining idiots might want to think about that, because without the server owners, you'll have no where to play either game.

As for myself, I don't have any choice but to 'get' the game since it's purchased for me by my employer for troubleshooting and testing. However, I'll be shutting down my servers the day L4D2 is released unless both games can be serviced by a single server and other significant issues about the release of L4D2 are satisfactorily dealt with by Valve