They have now reached 7500 members.

How many copies did the original Left 4 Dead sell again? Wasn't it millions of copies?

2.5million across both platforms, I think. Might exclude Steam sales.

Yup, excluding steam sales.

Does valve really care about 75000 people boycotting? Yeah... not really

75000? Too many zeros. It's only a mere 7777.

It's even less of a worry. I wouldn't say that many are that annoyed, tbh. Just the voice of the few is very loud on the forums.

I bet many people change their mind, too.

Why not boycott the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott?

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2Boycottboycott

Or maybe you should start boycotting the boycott against the boycott of Left 4 Dead 2?

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2Bo ... ottBoycott

Damn, I wanted to boycott the boycott boycotting the boycott of the boycott.

Wow, that word is seriously weird.

It's a tree of trolls!

In other news, it's all silly, we don't have enough information to actually make a decent informed decision past "hmm, that's a bit early, hope it's not too expensive/they still support L4D".

Trust me, the chat is hilarious. There are people voice chatting.

They started talking about Black Mesa Source, and saying about how Valve will probably hire them. Then that they will charge $60 for what is 'only a re-skin'.

EDIT:

Very interesting article here:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009 ... to-ars.ars

Seems Gabe Newell thought this would happen and also thought it was a bit out of character for the company.

Valve will do what Valve will do in due time.
Everybody is overreacting to a future that has not yet been set into the stone-like fabric of time. When it is true, then start complaining. Until then, people really shouldn't be giving Valve a hard time over everything they do.
To be honest, whatever Valve does, there will always be some moronic simpletons that complain. This is overpowered, nerf this, buff that... it never ends.
Let Valve do what they need to do and be grateful that they actually are doing something.

HL2E3 PLS

http://kotaku.com/5286185/valve-responds-to-left-4-dead-2-boycott-reaffirms-support-for-original

Interesting read. Valves response to the boycotts.

Tbh I've heard less rage at this lately

Yeah, it's sort of died down.

Probably because no one really cares anymore lol

Duh, it was just a kiddy going BAWWWWWWWW, people having nothing else to do, so they joined the group, not any actual people having any concern.

Yeah, it was just a kneejerk reaction, then people calmed down. I'm still hoping for a discount ^^

The comments at csnation summed it up nicely I thought:

http://csnation.totalgamingnetwork.com/ ... p?t=179818

Especially this:

we really don't know enough information about the game yet to make any judgements on the matter

You seemed to.

i said it was far too early to release a new game that would have drastic new content or if it did it wouldn't be polished. To then have to pay £25 would be ridiculous

I agree partly. I want a discount for the boycott reasons, but will probably still buy it anyway.

How silly, they just look like the thumb

Though the new one does have the advantage of still having the "4" part.

Nonsense, everyone knows that two of the characters are going to get bumped off half-way through Left 4 Dead 2. Obviously.

Maybe more than 2 will get bumped off this time.