A Hellforge writer has written on the effectiveness of online petitions in this day and age when petitions are as ubiquitous as latchkey kids on Xbox Live. With petitions for Diablo III's art direction, the release of a Chrono Trigger user-made sequel and Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, online complaints are at an all time high. How effective are they in making game developers listen?
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L4D had potential to be so much more. The issue was that the release of the second game just one year after the first added a decent amount of content which was much needed, then there was nothing except for a few small content updates spread far between.
This is one of the only games I can think of that benefits from a yearly release, or at least a yearly DLC so it doesn't split the player base.
The games just got too samey and lack content.. it's a shame they didn't keep up the pace, I know you can download new maps but it doesn't change the overall game or add new enemies etc.
Regardless of what Valve officially said they didn’t need to do a sequel that fast, things could have easily been added to the original overtime and the sad thing is the characters and atmosphere of the original was better than the sequel. I mean we went from the dark, grim city streets to the sunny south where we are hitting massive menacing tanks with frying pans.
I honestly believe Valve killed it because it was a Turtle Rock game at its core and Valve wanted it to be known as an Valve only IP moving forward
They even brought back the original survivors just to kill one of them off (even though in the original they were heading North to Canada)
Lol L4D2 came out in 2009, and you are saying it should have been a 2020s type live service game. It's just a great game, it doesn't need battle passes and skins.
This attitude is why devs are afraid to make any multiplayer game that isn't a live service.
Also in these current economic times live services is just a no go when people are being more frugal with their purchasing power. I don't do any subscription services anymore which means I can't do multiplayer on a console even if I wanted too. Something the console manufacturers should think about if they want to get players to even try their online stuff.
Has a petition actually ever worked?
To note, I should add that the Boycott isn't an actual petition like the others, but more of a movement.
Some are very well legit and some are just fanboys seeking to unite in some fashion.
i don't care if they work, i wanted LAN n sc2 so i signed, suck my wang, it's just to bad 90% of that petition is filled by bots....the stupid d!cks who tried to "help" boost the numbers have now made that petition a joke, 50,000 legit sigs means alot more than 100,000 filled with bots, hackers suck....no LAN for me