Valve seeks to bring PC players' Left 4 Dead 2 mods to 360

Microsoft never allowed PC UT3 mods to go to 360 but Sony allows them to go to PS3.

Yeah they've turned down all of the old PC devs. Bethesda, Epic, Valve (with L4D1 and soon to be this), and they're almost 100% guaranteed to turn down Bioware for DA mods. For whatever reason, they're obsessed with NOT having mods on the 360 no matter what.

There are a few ways to get around Microsoft's refusal, and either one seems to fit with the story. It will either work like the Rock Band Network and require XNA Creator's Club and then be filtered through Valve for publishing on the marketplace, or it will just be Valve taking the best PC mods and doing all the work themselves in making them compatible with the 360 version and with Microsoft's system for publishing digital content.

They are talking about potential paid content, not just DIY installing PC mods on your console.

its different here because microsoft hosts every file on xbox live, so they dont want to waste all their bandwidth and storage with stuff that costs $0 and gets them nothing in return. with sony's ut3 mod situation, you had to manually get the files onto your pc from the modder's site and transfer it to your ps3 over network or something.

its a tough situation, if you were iin control of the xbox platform, would you want to allow any random developer to be able to have his content show up on any game directly on the marketplace? example: fart app mod for halo, "now master chief farts whenever he jumps - FREE!"

i dont know, maybe the solution has something to do with allowing a mod link through a protocol in games for windows that syncs content to the 360. I just dont see Microsoft allowing the content to show up on the dashboard and clutter up everything with non - official and potentially buggy software, they wouldnt have the time to check every piece of content to make sure it doesnt crash the game.

so in conclusion, the way it could work is through software on a windows pc that would manage your mod content and sync it to your 360. best of both worlds, we get some fun indy DLC, and the xbox dashboard isnt cluttered / microsoft doesnt have to host it and charge money for putting it on their servers.

We would have also accepted "Black Friday: Shop till you drop....dead!"

I tried to block out the fact that TF2 exists on the PS3 and 360.

Your post pretty much sums up how I feel about the situation. Now where's that Crash Course map for L4D already?

Next, you'll be complaining about how no MMO's ever actually make it to the 360 and how that's the developers' fault.

Wake up.

I don't care much for the hats and class changes, but I would happily pay for the maps. If valve unbundled the other junk which I don't really like they could publish the maps now, but I think they're hanging on for the rest of the class updates to be done before rolling the lot up into one big DLC.

honestly play TF2 and L4D on pc not xbxo360.
it doesn't require a supercomputer. all you need is a dual core processor, a decent gfx card, and 2 gigs of memory.
Valve games are not meant to be played on consoles.
Trust me, playing valve games on consoles is stupid, you don't get free dlc and such as often.
I'm not a pc fanboy, most of the time i'm on my xbox playing cod4( i have pc version of that too btw, it has some cool features like bigger matches but i dont have friends who play pc)

I have my computer in my bedroom. That does not make playing games on my computer, at night, very conducive as my wife doesn't take kindly.

I also don't want to put a computer set-up in my living room.

On top of that, I BOUGHT it for a 360 because that's what I have and that's what I want to have. It was purchased with a promise that there would be DLC. It has been almost 2 years and nothing, nothing at ALL.

And Shashwat, wtf? You knock playing Valve games on a console but then say you enjoy playing CoD4 on console? You make no sense.

And NT_ - That's exacly what I'm saying. Really? Are you daft? How does asking a game that was MADE for the system put out the DLC it has been PROMISING equate to not having any MMOs on the console?

How the crap did you get from DLC to that? It's like comparing apples to a Sackboy.

oh shut the hell up. You're yelling at Valve when they want to give people FREE content on the consoles. They realize that if they actually charge they could make a shit ton of money. But no, they want it so that the free content on the PC is also free on the 360. Yet you have to be a little bitch and yell at Valve for trying to give consumers free stuff. Then you turn around and bitch and moan about how much DLC there is around and how much it costs. No STFU. If you can't wait then just play it on the computer. If you can't then quit bitching to Valve and bitch to Microsoft.