Left 4 Dead 'Crash Course' campaign DLC free on PC, $7 on 360 - this September

What's with the guns that don't exist ingame?

Awesome short-sightedness yet again, Microsoft. If you let the DLC go for free, as Valve probably wanted it, you'd sell more copies of BOTH games. Didn't you learn that lesson last time you let Valve do free DLC and you sold more copies of L4D than you did at its launch.

Ummm excuse me Joystiq but I bought the original game for the 360 it only cost $50 in November. Your reporters are a bunch of punk ass kids.

I couldn't agree more.

Yea, us conspiracy cry babies are back at the drawing board alright. Trying to figure out what the hell happened to Valve.

Ugh... Why an odd number of microsoft points?
560.. that leaves 240 unused points...

Guess it's a ploy to get people to buy avatar clothes...

I would more inclined to buy this if I could also use it in Left for Dead 2.

I meant I couldn't agree more with the dark wayne, not myself. Replied to wrong comment woopsy.

I guess it's nice that a lengthy campaign with decent co-op replayability is only $7, but I hardly think one campaign in a year is a landmark in game support after launch. Also, conspiratorial crybabies? Grow the fuck up.

Free on Steam but $7 on XBOX 360,

You must be having a laugh...

I guess i really won't be playing L4D ever again.

Mr. Wayne i am shocked, one is so quick to tug my Johnson...

Monotonous, repetitive, redundant...Any other synonyms? Call me, next time ill get ya the new release when it DROPS. Defending one mans trash...tsk tsk.

I will gladly trade you seven doll-hairs for this.

Sweet 360 gamers get screwed over again.
Now I don't mean anything bad to you good guys but just the ones who are all like this DLC sucks and its free.

I'll pay the $7 only if it goes toward developing HL2: Episode 3.

Sure, it's Valve's fault that Microsoft owns the Xbox Live Marketplace and dictates what publishers charge for content on the XBLM. You know, like they did when they told Bizarre Creations they had to pick a price point for Geometry Wars when they asked to give it away free - so they picked the lowest they could - 400pts. Or like when Cliffy B and Mark Rein have commented that they would have rather released the Gears maps free from day 1 but Microsoft told them to charge for them up front and do free updates later.

You want to blame somebody - blame Microsoft.

Valve created and owns Steam, yet they release stuff on there for free all the time. If it was Valve's fault, why release things on Steam for free? Why are the TF2 class updates free on Steam? Why do companies get to charge whatever they want for their games on Steam (ie Valve does not force pricing on them)?

Yet this is all Valve's fault...got it.

I guarantee you if Valve released the TF2 updates for the Ps3 version, they'd be free. But they're so disgusted with the poor optimization of the game, they don't want to have anything to do with it (so Ps3 owners are REALLY left out in the cold).

I bought Orange Box for the PC and I bought L4D for the PC, first and foremost because KB+M beats controller anyday in an FPS. Secondly, there's mods and user-created content. Thirdly, online play is free. Console exclusive shooters (like Gears, Killzone, or Resistance) I'll buy on the console....but any other FPS that comes out console+PC, I buy on PC.

What did they do to Zoey's face?!

Come on Microsoft this is getting ridiciulous. Most publishers, and developers don't even use the one free update they are allowed anyways. Clearly you can change your policy, to be more lenient towards the few that do want to release free updates, and it won't hit your pocketbooks. Your marketplace sales will continue to grow, regardless.

Valve put the resources into producing their content, if they don't want to be paid for that work, then who are you to stop them? Just change the policy. Throw out the ratio policy, the one free update per two premium. Give developers a maximum of three free updates, each with a 800 MB limit. Everything beyond that has to be premium. There you go. Im happy, the few independant developers that will exploit the policy change will be happy. And gamers will be happy.

Games that release free DLC, will have increased sales to one degree or another. Which will net you more money through your share of retail sales. The odd multiplayer game, with free DLC, will increase interest in gold membership to one degree or another. Those people would then be more likely to play other games on XBL. And finally, might get interested enough in other games on the service to pay for premium DLC for them. Beyond all that, theres the obvious positive reputation that would be associated with that.

Having the odd game, with free DLC isn't going to hurt you. Quite frankly having the odd game with free DLC, could help you. Its not like every developer is going to stand up and start releasing free content. I mean, the amount of developers producing DLC, is so high this generation, because they CAN charge. In the PC market, where there is only free DLC, very few developers invest the resources towards producing DLC. Even fewer of those developers have the determination, to resist charging if the infrastructure existed to charge consumers.

Inorder to produce free DLC, developers have to swallow both the certification fee, and the cost of producing the content. Not many are willing to do that. So there is NO harm, in changing your policy, to give just a little more leeway to the few that are.

valve is saving there own ass but in the recession valve proberly got it lowered from 800 points to 520 valve wont release TF2 on the xbox because microsoft refuses to give it for free. L4D2 is said to be too big for dlc and the pc version has just got SDK and a modded map server list

you complain but you dont no how much money valve has Ep3 wont pay for it's self

im glad i did not buy this on the 360, its really gay that they would do this, and whos gonna buy it with L4D2 around the not to distant corner

New achievements?

*crosses fingers for a level set in a university*

Does anyone else think Francis has the look of George W. Bush on his face?
Or is that just me?

Hopefully we'll see more of these before Left 4 Dead 2!

We'll just have to see if people have learned their lesson about purchasing Valve games on consoles. (the lesson is "Don't do it!" btw)

I have this sinking feeling that many of those complaining about this $7 will either still pay it or, even worse, still purchase Left 4 Dead 2 on the 360.

I've noticed that gamers like to complain a lot of being nickle and dime'd on DLC only to turn around and squeeze out $5 on avatar apparel or a premium theme.

I wouldn't mind the price of the DLC so much if it were just 500 ms points, but why 560? You can only buy ms points in bundles of 500, 1000, and so on. So I would have to buy 1000 points just for an extra 60 points!

LMAO, do you know how pissed 100% of PC users would be if valve charged for it? not to mention how fast it will pirated?

I've just read all of these comment, and I have to say I didn't waste my time at all.

What a good laugh!

Anyway, I think I'm not even going to waste my money on this DLC, I'll just wait for L4D2.

Seriously?
I like how everyone on here knows what Valve did or didn't plan to do. L4D came out last November, the first content pack came out 4 months later in March, and that didn't have any new campaigns - it just had the extra versus maps, and the new game type which used portions of existing maps. Now they're releasing a full campaign, playable on all three game types, six months later - a campaign that includes newly recorded audio to boot.
Is it really that hard to accept that maybe, MAYBE, they had most of the first DLC already underway when the game came out in November, and that this new campaign would take longer to create from the ground up? That the company that gave you 2008's game of the year and the free dlc in March (when every naysayer KNEW that 360 gamers would have to pay for it,) was planning on making good on their word and was working all along to put out more content, regardless of how many people complained on the internet? Regardless of the fact that pre-sales for the sequel have already eclipsed the original's?
Come on, folks. The gaming world is full of companies willing to half-ass it to get your dollar - go give them some of your web-rage, and stop hating on a company that's willing to give you the goods.

Louis looks more like he's thinking "I can take out the old man and chick.....but I better keep an eye on this one"

I seem to recall reading a while back that valve wants to give its dlc out for free on all platforms, but microsoft said they don't want games to add new achievements with free dlc content.

So not only do you poor 360 owners have yourselves to blame, but your collective hard-on for arbitrary game goals with no reward is actually the root cause of you getting perpetually screwed on your platform of choice.

congrats kiddos ;)

Gah, some xbox users are so stupid :/
Valve would probably make it free for xbox gladly.. its just Microsoft is retarded, and feels the need to make every add-on cost SOMETHING so they can whore all the money from the dlc's popularity.

Plus, anyone know the exact date of release?

Dude, when did Zoey get hot? And Louis has a ghetto face now.

zoey looks just a little bit too excited.

The original Louis left because of the constant Obama jokes and racist rants from online jerks.