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Valve 'Disappointed' With Left 4 Dead 2 Ban

Australian gamers clamoring to get their hands on the upcoming sequel to Valve's zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, were given the harsh news of the game's ban earlier this week. The Australian Classifications Board refused the game, denying it to be sold anywhere in the country.

As you could have probably guessed, this news doesn't sit well with Valve. VP of Marketing, Doug Lombardi, told IGN the company was surprised by the ban

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Bnet3436098d ago

I don't blame them. In AUS alone, it's a potential 100,000+ sales right there, maybe more.

evrfighter6098d ago

Aussie legislators must have joined the boycott. No other excuse.

However I believe it's possible to change your region in steam settings. Not sure if that's been fixed.

mal_tez926098d ago

It's just losing customers. It didn't bother them to lose all potential PS3 customers, so why does this disappoint them?

Even if it was available for PS3, I would get the PC version because Valve games just feel right with keyboard and mouse; I just hate double stndards.

zagibu6097d ago

They didn't lose PS3 customers. The game never ran on PS3.

Relientk776098d ago

Fans 'disappointed' with Valve

Nihilism6098d ago

how is this valve's fault you fool, they obviously care, despite the small population, there are alot of game sales in aus, bigger games sell hundreds of thousands, which is higher as a % of the population than alot of the larger countries including the U.S

(now for you retards that will say "Australia does have more have sales that the U.S...look back up, see that symbol, it means percentage)

Pandamobile6098d ago

Valve will probably release the low-violence German version for Australia on PC. 360 gamers might be out of luck.

Nihilism6098d ago

l4d without the gore :O, you sir go too far ( although your probably right)

if i do get it it will be from amazon.com......i like my zombies nice and mutilated

Pandamobile6098d ago

add "-lv" to your L4D launch options to see what you might be in for.

fafoon6098d ago

With L4D 2
And you cant blame them
It's nothing more than DLC

Pandamobile6098d ago

So every sequel should be DLC? Makes perfect sense.

shutupandplay6098d ago

No, it`s just a ps3 fanboy without a decent PC or 360.

LONEWOLF2316098d ago (Edited 6098d ago )

Far from DLC, L4D2 is gonna be SAAAWWWWEEEETTTTT!!!
It sucks that AUS wont be getting it though. Hopefully the game is Region Free so they can Import. Well anyways you all take care the Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo is calling me.......that game is INSANE!

solar6098d ago

damn you Valve!!! stop innovating the FPS genre!! its getting old already!!! if you want to put someone asleep playing your games ask GG, they did a good job doing that with KZ2.

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Peter North6098d ago

I will not buy Left 4 Dead 2.

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Top Horde Shooters Your Squad Should Play

The Guide Hall explores the top horde shooters that co-op fans should be playing this year before the upcoming launch of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2!

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15 Xbox Games That Should Make the Multiplatform Jump

While there’s likely already a list behind closed doors, one can still speculate and offer logical suggestions for titles new and old that should find their way into the PlayStation and Switch libraries.

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GamerRN805d ago

Single A games and live service games. Those make sense

S2Killinit805d ago

None of it makes sense. But its happening.

Ps5conehead805d ago

That’s up to Microsoft they want return on there investment. From buying up those publishers. That’s what there in business for. And they made a mistake putting day one exclusive on game pass. So now Microsoft wants to profit any way they can.its called buisness . Just like Sony putting games on pc a year are two after ps5 launch.
So if they can make money off PlayStation and Nintendo. They will do that. And I bet soon real soon they will release some aaa exclusives .and I bet one day it will be same day release

TheEroica804d ago

Sony gamers begging for Xbox games.... Who would've thunk it?

BISHOP-BRASIL804d ago

Yeah, because random site off the internet represents all Sony gamers, they have the letter of attorney and all...

S2Killinit804d ago

Lol what a spin. You dizzy?

AsunaYuukiTheFlash804d ago (Edited 804d ago )

We don’t care about shovelwares. Get that junk out of PS5

StormSnooper804d ago

More like MS begging to put their games on PlayStation.

TheEroica803d ago

Keep begging Sony gamers!

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Friendlygamer805d ago

Some of these seem to be exclusive for lack of enthusiasm of the publisher rather than because of deals. A lot of cool indies skip ps for some reason like katana zero, el paso, elsewhere and gunbrela

S2Killinit805d ago

Even more indies skip xbox. We know that right?

Friendlygamer805d ago

Quality over quantity, Microsoft got some really interesting and curated niche games on their machines, maybe in part because of gamepass

S2Killinit804d ago

Quality and MS are not things you bring up in same sentence.

shinoff2183804d ago (Edited 804d ago )

Alot of indies skip xbox to. It goes round and round. Personally I think your off base on that but no need to have the argument.

Friendlygamer804d ago

Between katana zero, valheim, Battletech, el passo... I don't feel off base. maybe ps got a million of light novel games that will never release on Xbox but like I've said, I'm talking about niche games highlights, the 10%.

  Heck, it's probably thanks to Microsoft that the s.t.a.l.k.e.r games came to console ps included, meanwhile Sony backwards compatibility continues to be extremely anemic.

And I'm sure most ps5 users are happy to ignore these games and just play wathever new 3rd person action game is trending but it's cool that Microsoft gives some love to smaller audiences and software preservation

shinoff2183804d ago

Again your off base just to be snide. All it's showing though is your ignorance.

One light novels wtf is that even. Ps has plenty of pretty damn good indies.

Speaking of indies and ms being responsible. You know F.I.S.T. of course you do alot of you guys just support gamepass. Well here's a history of Sony being responsible for helping indies. Look up the China project from Sony.

Lastly lol your ignorance showing again. Sony has plenty of games. Personally third person is better then first anyway but that's besides the point. Sony gets so many games that xbox doesn't get because yall don't support the games. Jrpgs being a great example. I personally am not into every Sony first party game. Alot of us aren't. On the other side you don't get to eat often so you gobble up everything. Me personally God of War not my cup, etc. For me I'm into jrpgs and ms just can't touch Sony on those. Again because the Xbox base doesn't support it. Devs dont wanna waste their time or money. Hit me up when falcom develops a game over there.

Speaking of third person narrative games. Aren't yall drooling over hellblade 2. The first one was Sony exclusive at one point. Another not my cup game. Showing we don't have to fall in line and agree we love everything Sony puts out. The facts are they sell though unlike elsewhere(not nintendo)

StormSnooper804d ago

You are same person as GamerRN, yes?

Abnor_Mal805d ago

They really think PlayStation fans would want to play Redfall? Pfft.

Personally nothing on that list would be any game I’d want to play.

TwoPicklesGood805d ago

I’d absolutely love Hellblade 2, Palworld, and Quantum Break on ps5 as I’m sure tons of others would too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting games from another console and its sad that people try to act like they aren’t interested in them.

shinoff2183804d ago

While indont agree with the games. I agree with the point. Your not wrong.

DarXyde805d ago

Sunset Overdrive makes very good sense. Palworld might.

Don't know about the others. Hellblade II does make sense given the original launched on PS4 first. Quantum Break was a massive letdown for me. I absolutely hated the whole TV show thing and I don't think anyone should have to relive that on modern hardware.

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Valve Made Left 4 Dead 2 Because The First Game Was A Broken Mess

Left 4 Dead lead Chet Faliszek describes the original Left 4 Dead game as "such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it."

ZycoFox917d ago

And then couldn't be arsed to make a third game.

If they can add a lot more stuff to a 2nd game in just 1 year why didn't they make a third game a few years later with tons of stuff extra? Because that shows they could've.

I know Source 2 was kind of broken and was a reason they cancelled L4D3 but it seems wasteful to just toss it away.

Don't know what Valve were thinking.. it's like nobody wanted to fix the issues to get going. They certainly aren't the Valve of 2004 that released fun games with pretty cutting edge graphics.

cthulhucultist915d ago

Valve is allergic to number 3 it seems. It would be easier for them to release a Left 4 Dead 2.5 enhanced version instead of releasing a game with "3" slapped on its title.

rakentaja914d ago

They stopped making games a long time ago. Steam brings in so much money that it's really not worth the effort. Nowadays, people only look for faults in games, and spend more time whining on Twitter/X than playing the game anyway. Valve says a big fat no-no.

anast915d ago

Value is the Blockbuster of video games. They have no need to invest in deving a game, when they can make handfuls of cash renting them.

-Foxtrot916d ago

What are they talking about? Seemed pretty alright to me at launch it just wasn't supported the way Valve promised us

They should have just worked on a revamp / massive update to the game but they didn't they jumped straight to a sequel with brand new characters despite having some sort, if small, story about where the original survivors were heading.

I didn't care for the direction they took the sequel, the original games tone and atmosphere was missing in the second game and is still unmatched. Daytime levels, more whackiness, melee weapons where you could attack a Tank with a frying pan...just wasn't the same to be honest and the new survivors just didn't hold up the originals.

Here's my speculation. I think they did a sequel because they didn't want to update a game co-developed by Turtle Rock, they wanted the franchise to be known as a Valve game only and knew if they updated the first one Turtle Rocks name would still linger on it.

shaenoide915d ago

I want broken games like L4D all day long...

GhostScholar915d ago

Well the first game was by far the best

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