Go batty with the Left 4 Dead 2 pre-order bonus

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 2nd 2009 3:40PM

Valve is offering a number of enticing pre-order offers for their upcoming zombicidal action title, Left 4 Dead 2. For the impatient among us, dropping a reservation on the game garners early access to the demo (which is set to drop October 27). For the thrifty among us, pre-ordering the game through Steam (or other participating digital distributors), knocks 10 percent off the total price of the game.

However, for the truly patriotic among us, Valve is offering a singularly thrilling bonus: An in-game "American baseball bat." We've contacted Valve to find out exactly what this means -- is pre-ordering the game really the only way to get our hands on this implement of the Great American Pastime? Or is it just a special "American" skin for the bat, which was previously confirmed to be one of the title's brand new melee weapons? We hope it's the latter, if only so we can sing "Courtesy of the Red, White And Blue" during our undead massacres.

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Tags: baseball-bat, gamestop, left-4-dead, left-4-dead-2, Microsoft, pre-order, steam, valve, Xbox-360

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take note gamestop this is how preorders should be done, discounted price plus ingame content plus early access to demo

I don't know. The 'we'll maybe put a copy in the reserved basket but sell it to someone else if you don't come quick enough' plan seems good to me.

oooh!!! let me join in on the smack talk!!! I love a good case of it!!!.... wait...
... umm... gamestop took note... and is doing it? Signs were up in the store today when I reserved it... :) man I love this
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=75064

Funny. GameStop is claiming that the baseball bat is a gamestop exclusive.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

ok... yeah... that part is funny... I'm with ya on that one Hakaisou
Maybe y'all should get your game at Game Crazy... oh wait...

um actually its or, the word you are looking for is or. Not and.

Hey JUNG GUNS... Put an one of these ----> @ and a name at who you're referring to... makes things easier... oh... and... NO ONE CARES! :) We're having fun... this isn't engrish class :-P

Oh, the things I would do for a baseball bat.

Oh, the things I would do to you with a baseball bat... ;)

i don't think he's into that kind of stuff...

My plan is to setup a .wav file that I can play of Brian singing the "peanut butter jelly time" song to Peter in Family Guy while I run around smacking zombie heads in my the bat.

Cool Story bro

cool. too bad i already pre-ordered it for xbox through gamestop.

don't worry dude... you'll get it all... I'm getting it all from GS

Ugh, why did you give them your money.

umm.... see below

LOLZ... gamestop is giving $5 off, the baseball bat, AND the early demo access... signs are up in their windows! Mine's on pre-order already!!!

Psst. Steam's deal is exactly the same. You get all three bonuses for pre-ordering.

No way! isn't that what the article said? I like discs so I can has money and trade them in when I'm done playing them :) I'm a corporate zombie tool in that aspect... but it makes games cheaper for me

I have to say I was going to get the original L4D on steam, but it was $20 cheaper on sale at the local store. So I go it there. With the extra $20, I can buy my own REAL anti-zombie bat and keep it by the desk while I play.

So it was negative 5 dollars at your store? Because it was $15 on steam with the half off sale.

But were you back for breakfast?

On release! Steam was NOT half price, it was $49.95, stop price was $29.95. You can do the math. I bought it the first day it came out, not on any DLC sale.

Cheerios, the fuel of what a guy.

Good pre-order bonus. I love how valve offers games cheaper for pre-orders. I feel like pre-orders should be cheaper anyways because you're paying for it without even playing a demo and before reviews are out. Kind of a leap of faith (Though how could you not have faith in vavle?)

I think we should all have a little more faith in Vavle

Valve*

meh, Not worth it until they throw in some sort of bonus for the folks who bought L4D1.

Bonus is having a better understand of how the game works.

They open the game up for map-makers, and give us one of their own. What more do you want?

For a second there, I had gotten my hopes up that they were including a better version of the Arkham Asylum CE Batarang.

Batman: Left 4 Dead

I can dream...

Could they have gotten the rights to the ultimate American bat: the Louisville Slugger?

A nice tid-bit of info people should know is that you can bring that $45 down to $33.75 when you buy the 4-Pack. Speaking with some friends now about putting our money together.

I freaking love you Valve. You really know how to "infect" us. HOHOOO.

I'm apparently boycotting this game (so says the Steam group I'm on) so screw them!

You wish you could. Then you could have genius game-making babies.

No seriously, this is a pretty crappy bonus. 10%, and a baseball bat? Am I suppose to run and scream wweeeee like a pre-teen girl over this? Who cares about 10% when in a few months, you'll grab the game for 50% off anyway ?

Crappy compared to what? Most other games preorder bonuses are usually either some lame code for DLC, a demo, or nothing at all. You're getting a demo, DLC and $5 off. Sounds good to me.

No seriously, this is a pretty crappy comment ^

50%? Sorry, but L4D is still 45 new at my gamestop, and 40 used.

whaaa? l4d is 30 on steam right now, and its been significantly lower in the past.

if you are talking about the 360 version, *snicker* you already decided you aren't going to save money. no, you are going to pay extra for the same game/content.

i dunno if they sell pc games at gamestop or not.

"if you are talking about the 360 version, *snicker* you already decided you aren't going to save money. no, you are going to pay extra for the same game/content."

Whaaa? This may be true for L4D, but the vast majority of games released on the 360 and steam quickly get much, much cheaper on the 360. Fallout 3, for instance, is still full price on steam and has only been less than that for one little weekend, whereas there have been about a gajillion deals on the 360 to get it to a significantly lower price.

My biggest gripe with steam is that games stay full price for way, way too long whereas 360 games constantly have absurd deals as the retailers battle with each other.

@dark Wayne

"50%? Sorry, but L4D is still 45 new at my gamestop, and 40 used. "

Steam lowered the price on L4D so many times that I lost count. I bought it for 20$ new just after christmas on Steam. I fully expect them to repeat this this year again.

@CTC XBL-supapaypamawio

Are you kidding me? you're praising what here? getting a demo 1 week early than the rest of the world? Getting 5$off when it will go on sale for 50$ after christmas again? Getting what, a baseball bat? Really, is that suppose to be ground breaking here ? i'd rather have an extra level or other form of DLC that do ADD to the game than just a baseball bat with a special skin on it.

I'm not a Valve hater. I own all of their games. But this is far from being a good pre-order bonus. Anyway L4D 2 is an expension for L4D but sold to you at a full game price. I'll wait for the 50% rebate after christmas. It's not like there won't be better games to play in the meantime.

i referred only to left for dead, not all 360 games.

You didn't answer my questions, what is this preorder bonus stuff crappy compared too? Usually a preorder gets one of those things, Valve is giving you 3 things. I don't do preorders because I've never seen something worth doing one for.

They talked about the Baseball bat earlier... it's only available in game if either you pre-ordered the game or are playing with someone who pre-ordered the game. It's semi-viral, in a way.

Pretty weak pre-order bonus there. Hopefully there's different pre-order bonuses else where.

Picture

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/images/bonus/L4D2_bonusLG.jpg

i still say getting a demo for pre-ordering something is backward....

I'm not American so i could care less.

Oh look! It's TF2 does L4D. Same cartoonish style.

Pass.

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