The slaughter starts Friday at 12:01 am GMT. Good opportunity to try before you buy.
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The slaughter starts Friday at 12:01 am GMT. Good opportunity to try before you buy.
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well i won't be playing l4d friday....
Thanks for posting Peakr, gonna definately play some for free since its holiday on Friday (time to clean the dust from XP partition)
My thoughts exactly. A game where your teams needs to be good doesn't work with nubs.Originally Posted by 570091D
Thats why I always play with friends.
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a game that requires dedicated servers that good companies wont host that and that are on already overstacked boxes is also bad
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Perhaps if it was free indefinitely, then I would give it another go. The previous demo gave me plenty of glaring reasons why this game should only be $20 at best.
i think that affter the weekend they will make it cheaperlike $20 or 25
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Awesome! Gotta try this. Thanks for the heads up.
I gave up hosting a dedicated server, valve keep making patch upon patch to try and get the mess of matchmaking working. Tip for people who don't own their own server;
Find a search key for your area.
sv_search_max_ping 100 or something along those lines usually fixes server issues. Or just host is locally. I only have a 10mbitdown/2mbit up connection and most people get sub 100 ping when I host, which isn't bad at all for l4d.
Yeah I definitely will not be playing this friday.
Hey, don't lump us all together! I only host two dedicated servers in the middle of the US (Kansas City) on a DS3 on a dual, quad-core machine with 16GB of RAM that sits at about 4% CPU usage most of the time.Should be nice and smooth for the players.
On the other hand, nobody ever plays there hardly due to:
1) Patch storm. I can't go three minutes without being out of date or rejecting clients who are out of date, and for some reason that's a manual process on the server end.
2) Who knows. I just don't get many players.
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You just can't win. If your product offers feature A instead of B, people will moan how A is stupid and it didn't offer B. If your product offers B instead of A, they'll likewise complain and rant about how anyone's retarded cousin could figure out A is what the market wants.
Well no one is forcing you to play. Do the same as the guy above
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I missed the last sale weekend. If this goes on sale again, I'm definitely picking this up. (clicking this up?)
I take it they don't learn from their mistakes. Had they continued to allow use to play the demo they wouldn't need to have to do this.
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They don't "have" to do anything. However, their sales don't lie. Half price weekends and free play weekends make their sales jump up multiple times over normal. In this case, they're probably doing it because of the new game mode they just released.
As a thread about any computer related subject has its length approach infinity, the likelihood and inevitability of a poorly constructed AMD vs. Intel fight also exponentially increases.
Likewise, the frequency of a car pseudoanalogy to explain a technical concept increases with thread length. This will make many people chuckle, as computer people are rarely knowledgeable about vehicular mechanics.
When confronted with a post that is contrary to what a poster likes, believes, or most often wants to be correct, the poster will pick out only minor details that are largely irrelevant in an attempt to shut out the conflicting idea. The core of the post will be left alone since it isn't easy to contradict what the person is actually saying.
When a poster cannot properly refute a post they do not like (as described above), the poster will most likely invent fictitious counter-points and/or begin to attack the other's credibility in feeble ways that are dramatic but irrelevant. Do not underestimate this tactic, as in the online world this will sway many observers. Do not forget: Correctness is decided only by what is said last, the most loudly, or with greatest repetition.
When it comes to computer news, 70% of Internet rumors are outright fabricated, 20% are inaccurate enough to simply be discarded, and about 10% are based in reality. Grains of salt--become familiar with them.
Remember: When debating online, everyone else is ALWAYS wrong if they do not agree with you!
Random Tip o' the Whatever
You just can't win. If your product offers feature A instead of B, people will moan how A is stupid and it didn't offer B. If your product offers B instead of A, they'll likewise complain and rant about how anyone's retarded cousin could figure out A is what the market wants.
IDK about that. I had a dedicated L4D server for the first month or so it was out and I never saw massive bandwidth usage. A versus server would use at most 1.5Mbps. Hardware requirements weren't bad either.
1. There is no valid proof that this technique is any better then those who provide demos before release. There are other factors you are forgetting here.
2. If they don't have to do anything they wouldn't need to try to convince more people to buy this game at a reduction from their initial price.
3. Although my opinion, their current asking price and release price is way to high.
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1. How about the very important factor of being in the news every two months either because of a free weekend or free DLC?
2. You always need more sales, see nr.1
3. How so? L4D is great fun even if its the same maps. You simply ignore it and focus on the play, not the environment.
Sometimes it doesn't work with four good players from different groups, but a pair of players that work well together can hold a decent team together.
I play within a few loose groups of players, it can be frustrating to play when no one you normally play with is available or you can't fill a vs match and only get useless randoms. But when you get decent randoms, add them to invite next time. I can see how this can be frustrating for the noobs too. Playing on campaigns and now survival before diving into VS play is a great way of avoiding getting kicked for being a noob.
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well, if you pick up l4d as a single player game, and you play it online without friends, its going to suck, and its not worth the money
if you have friends that play it, its a blast and worth the money.
i will say, i'm not a huge fan of survivor, but i love versus, and death toll and dead air are fun to play.
like all games, there are a lot of tricks with this game you won't ever pick up on by playing it in a demo or 24 hour period.
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uh I'll play more than I usually do; joining a random game, setting teammates on fire and leaving while they rage should be more fun than usual
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You can do that with any game offering patch/update or DLC. For example UT3 did something similar with their titan pack at a much lower price (which offers a demo). What sells a game more is it's popularity not just it's exposure.
Word of mouth and popularity alone can sell the game. So a poor excuse IMO.
This made no sense. Based on what this game offers I don't find it something worth their asking price.
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