Left 4 Dead Survival Pack DLC Coming This Spring
Left 4 Dead Survival Pack DLC Coming This Spring
Posted 02/05/2009 at 6:48pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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Killing zombies does not get boring. Ever. Complacency – allowing your well-trained, unflinching nerves to put on a nice layer of soft, easily startled flab – is exactly what the zombies are waiting for. However, one can never be too prepared for the decomposed, constantly vomiting end of civilization as we know it, so Valve’s announcement that it intends to continually expand Left 4 Dead is perfectly reasonable.
The game’s first batch of DLC, titled “The Survival Pack,” will slather a new layer of glue onto your computer screen this spring. It’ll include a new multiplayer mode – called Survival, natch – as well as two new campaigns for Versus Mode.
Also hitting shelves this spring is a Critic’s Choice Edition of L4D. Not content to merely repackage the game’s vanilla edition, L4DCCE will lure new players in with a warm mug of glowingly positive review quotes and keep them on the edge of their seats with the aforementioned Survival Pack.
Valve’s also tossing a free SDK in there around the same time, giving you the ability to kill zombies in a box, with a fox, in a house – anywhere really!
Hell, we suppose, if you’re a complete madman, you could even cook up something totally ridiculous like zombie Nazis. But that’d just be loony.
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xs0u1x
February 06, 2009 at 10:20pm
yes killing zombies does get boring. i played co-op on l4d for about 2 hours and then shut it off, because i knew what was coming, endless co op of the same levels and then retarded dlc's that i shouldnt even have to pay for.
dwr50
February 06, 2009 at 7:42am
the idea of expansion pac's if they cost any more money. It seems like a lot a companies just want to keep their hands in your pocket forever. That's why I'll never play a MMO with a monthly fee. The fee's add up to hundreds of dollars.
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Muerte
February 10, 2009 at 11:50am
You see this is the thinking I don't get. If you mowed lawn for a living you would expect to get paid everytime you mowed that lawn.
If you add content to a game why should the entity that created the game not get money for the content they added? After all you only bought that game. I swear I think companies would be better off putting out a game and then just leaving it as it is. As long as it worked properly when they sold it to you, they really have no obligation to add anything to it.
Muerte
February 06, 2009 at 7:40am
IMO, Valve kind of put themselves between a rock and a hard place. They charged full retail for a game that obviously had limited replayability. Even the AI director can do much to broaden that.
Now if they charge for new content they seem a bit greedy, people will complain, but if they offer new content for free they will set a precedent, and if they charge for subsequent content, people will complain.
I would pay for new content. But unlike the unwashed masses I believe you should pay for peoples hard work and imagination. This content does not build itself. Now lets not charge like its a new game ala BF2. After all the game engine and modeling is already there. But I'd pay 10 - 15 bucks for more content.
Havok
February 06, 2009 at 2:51pm
I thik more people would play MMOs and the like if expansions were cheap. Fallout 3 DLC is a good example. It's about 10 dollars US, twelvish if you are Canadian like me, even though you gotta butcher your money into microsoft-useless-frakin'-points.
I don't remember exactly how many, but at the store I work, when Wrath of the Lych king was released, we had a bunch of people mad because they needed the previous expansion at about 35 bucks to run a 44 dollar expansion for a 25 dollar game at 20 bucks a month. If the expansions were cheaper, no complaints, no headaches, no-one whose Corn Flakes were pissed in.
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ben628
February 06, 2009 at 3:26am
Will the survival pack be free? The information stating itll be included inthe L4DCCE leads me to think other wise. I sincerely hope Valve is releasing it for free.
jcollins
February 06, 2009 at 8:29am
I'm guessing not free. The impression I am getting for the most part on the various "DLC" articles is that it is the new catch phrase for "Corporate hand in your pocket".
Vahn16
February 06, 2009 at 8:00am
No info on price, but Valve would be idiotic to randomly start charging on this -- let's face it -- anemic piece of content. I imagine we'll see a TF2-style pricing structure here. That is, free.
MrNaPaLm32
February 05, 2009 at 10:20pm
on the contrary, killing zombies gets old. very fast. Its really not that great.
SillyElf74
February 05, 2009 at 7:35pm
I have always said the only thing that could be more fun than killing zombies would be killing nazi zombies!! Way to read my mind.
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