https://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=887255
Please sign this petition if you agree. Instead of raising negative attention, the idea is to bring the community together. If we get enough signatures, I will email this to Valve.
Also, if you know effective ways of gathering people to sign, any help would be appreciated.
Why do people still fail to realise that internet petitions do not work?
We should hold a petition to get people to stop making petitions.
Why all the hate? It’s better than nothing.
It’s not about the petition. It’s about people bringing attention to an idea.
They have they’re reasons for not showing Episode 3 yet. (and there’s still one more day)
As for L4D2(& C3PO) see my signature.
We just need to get Randall Munroe to make an XKCD about the issue and Valve will fix it up in no time…
I think we should start an awareness documentary with commentary by Morgan Freeman.
If it’s not about the petition, I don’t see the point of doing it… even if it is, valve’ll never give a damn. 
i feel more and more like joining the boycott when i go back and read the old articles where Valve gushes on about all the expanding future content for Left 4 Dead, back when the game was being previewed.
for example:
https://www.videogamer.com/news/valve_details_post_left_4_dead_launch_plans.html
https://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51574 For +15,000 emails he’d put Counter-Strike 2 in the next orange box. I don’t see why there wouldn’t be any compromise for enough complaints about L4D2.
I actually want to play L4D2, does that make me weird?
-Sigh-
Why do people piss and moan every time Valve produces a new title calling it a “money grab” or a “profit scheme”? They are a business after all and that really is their main function. Have we already forgotten that they have in fact, been really cool recently about the latest string of Team Fortress 2 updates despite a leak?
Hell, must I be sarcastic again in explaining something we should know about quality software development and the long excruciating time it takes to make it perfect of near perfect (i.e. Black Mesa: Source anyone?)?
Think about this for one sec (as opposed to having a piss fit about not being gratified at the frequency in which you most desire): Perhaps Left 4 Dead 2 is a direct response from Valve to people like the “L4D Boycott community” on Steam (now a whopping 3,820 strong) to develop something as quickly as possible to appease naysayers in an attempt to please their consumer base?
The Orange Box was an incredible deal giving us games like Portal, Team Fortress 2, and of course HL2: Episode 2. Maybe, just maybe, Valve is withholding information because they want badly to unveil a well polished product later on. Let’s assume, that’s what most developers wish to do for a moment and stop whining about absolutely nothing. Maybe, just maybe, we can find something else to do in the mean time with our lives that is more important than attempting a petty boycott based on the fact that Valve hasn’t given us any real indication about a product they are currently withholding to gain more market anticipation.
Oh… oh god.
Reverend: That. All of it.
It’s getting annoying now, we know we don’t like it but you can’t force Valve to give you information when there is non or if it’s uncomplete.
No one is attempting to force anything. It is simply a friendly request; if you actually read it, you would understand that.
Don’t see what all the hate is about. No one is forcing you to sign it. If you support it, great, if you don’t then I don’t see why you need to bring others down.
Worth reading.
That article makes me wonder if it will be in the next orange box. If it is bundled with Episode 3, and Portal 2 or some other game, I’ll buy it without a complaint.
This thread, and every thread like it:
Just popping up here to tell you that valve has different teams working on L4D2, Ep.3, Portal 3, ect.
I’m pretty sure that’s the way their system’s always worked. Even back when it was Prospero and Half-Life.
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