Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | 10:58 BST
Left 4 Dead 2 boycott stands down
The Left 4 Dead 2 boycott is officially over. The internet has spoken.
“Effective Wednesday October 21st 2009 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, this group will be closed,” said revolution architect Walking_Target.
Why?
“People have lost sight of why we’re here. The comments are always full of trolls, people bashing Valve and phishers. What is more, people are unwilling or unable to wait for Valve to follow through in any cohesive way.”
Fellow man of the people Agent of Chaos added:
“We have accomplished everything we can on our manifesto. We’ve been dealing with Valve ever since our group started, then we met them in-person and now we’re at the point of concluding our discussions. Our goal wasn’t to steer people away from L4D2, it was to get Valve’s attention and have them support original L4D. We succeeded and that’s where our mission ends; nothing more or less.”
And that’s the end of that. The game’s out on November 17.
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Tags: Agent of Chaos, boycott, Left 4 Dead 2, Walking_Target
7 comments
#1
G1GAHURTZ
14/10/09, 10:59 am
Maybe next time, Tonka.
#2
Gekidami
14/10/09, 11:01 am
They succeeded? In what way? Has any more DLC been planned for L4D once the sequel is out?
#3
Yoshi
14/10/09, 11:03 am
Yes Gekidami, they even said in the annoucement, Valve has DLC planned for after L4D2 is out
#4
Gamoc
14/10/09, 11:03 am
They’re ending their boycott a month before the game releases? Wow.
Seriously, as if they were going to avoid buying the game anyway.
Valve always said they’d continue supporting L4D anyway, this boycott did nothing.
#5
Joe Anderson (wotta)
14/10/09, 11:08 am
Well actually it got the game free publicity and the leaders a trip to valve, wins all around I’d say.
#6
OrphanageExplosion
14/10/09, 2:44 pm
I like the way it sounds as though Good Friday Agreement level of discussions have been going on here.
#7
Michael O'Connor
14/10/09, 6:17 pm
It’s the internet. What the hell else did he expect for it to be other than full of ignorant, obnoxious tools? Common sense and maturity?
To the credit of the original petition creator, he was a sensible bloke. It’s the inherently lazy trolls that followed him that were a problem.
Nice to see this finally die. Maybe now we can get back to enjoying our video game…
They didn’t “win” jack though. It was always Valve’s intention to do things this way, something they’ve been saying long before this petition even existed.