September 30th 2009 10:20 pm PT

Left 4 Dead Crash Course Pack

Content: Crash Course
Price: 560 Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE Regions
Dash Text: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,INTENSE VIOLENCE,LANGUAGE] Left 4 Dead’s Crash Course starts with our Survivors right after their rescue helicopter from the No Mercy campaign crash lands on the outskirts of town. This two chapter campaign includes Co-op, Survival and Versus action, and ten new achievements. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

 
 

Game Add-on, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2009/09/30/left-4-dead-crash-course-pack/

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  • EtTuBruteshot

    Major should definitely weigh in on this and provide everyone with a clear and reasonable explanation as to why Microsoft forced Valve to charge for DLC. He probably won’t, but that’s to be expected since there can be no plausible explanation except that it is shameless greed!

    Just like Halo 3 ODST. Bungie said for months on end that it wasn’t a full game and would be priced accordingly, but low and behold, Microsoft decides that even though it isn’t a full game in its own right, they should charge whatever the market will bear. Since there are so many Halo 3 fans out there (in top 2 or 3 of XBOX Live games list since it came out), I guess Microsoft said ‘Hey, let’s make Bungie charge the price for a regular full game and the fans will purchase it anyway. Screw a little bad press and a few negative comments on the Internet… we want the $$$’

    So, Major, enjoy your paycheck from this greedy little company. Keep charging everyone unfair prices… Microsoft’s day will come… eventually.

  • xZepher

    $50 a year just isnt enough for M$’s greedy ass. Charging for something that is free on PC.

  • MadMonkeyKiller

    L4D Crash course price error

    Lots of people will be/have done/ going to buy it! but for some who bought it early it cost 800MSP, but it now cost’s 560msp. what im talking about is i got “tipped off”. so i want to know how to resolve what i paid. And with achievements not working as well i feel put of from buying DLC again.

  • EtTuBruteshot

    I don’t have a problem with buying DLC… but when it’s free on other platforms, and the publisher wants to give it away as part of their business strategy, then they should have the right to give it away.

    I quit playing L4D some time ago as it got too boring. Valve didn’t release the free DLC in a timely manner and most of the people I played with on a regular basis quit playing it because it had gotten stale.

    I’m definitely not going to pay for something that many people say is too short and is buggy at best. Shame on Microsoft’s greedy little butts… Oh, and I’m not buying L4D2 either… because when I bought L4D1, I was under the impression that more content (free) would follow soon. They welched on that promise and then Microsoft puts their hands in Valve’s pockets when they finally had some DLC to deliver.

  • L0ng5h0t

    There is an unholy alliance at work behind the decision to charge for this content. First there’s Microsoft’s policy that A) Free content can’t have achievements and B) The Publisher, not the developer, sets the price for the dlc. So let’s see who is the publisher of L4D and L4D: CC… Oh, lookie, it’s our favorite money-grubbing publisher EA. Creators of the infamous unlock4cash schemes of last year. Valve is not completely innocent here, since they are listed as co-publishers, but that may be only that they publish the pc version on Steam and EA published the Xbox version. Still it seems that they should’ve had enough pull in the industry to keep the price down.

  • yolarrydabomb

    meh I going to quit buying points

    This is stupid

  • DavidGX

    I’m getting ever closer to trading my 360 and all it’s games for a ps3. I’m growing REALLY tired of all this greed and bullshit.

  • StabaCadaver

    I said it before and I’ll say it again. WAH! If you don’t agree with it, don’t buy it. Your comments won’t change anything, but your actions will depending on what you decide to do.

  • Monoxide Child

    Horse Armor anyone?

  • DavidGX

    @StabaCadaver

    If you’re going to whine about peoples comments you probably should save yourself the embarrassment and just f- off.

  • My Big Boss

    All people that keep complaining about the price should f**k of since everything is charge for how would you then run a business by giving everything out for free f**k you..

  • My Big Boss

    @DavidGX

    You can f**k off..
    He is trying to stop people like you from spamming the board with you bitching.
    a**hole..

  • kristof666

    Why do i have to pay? I ve supported the xbox when I buy L4D on 360 and this is how MS reward me?
    The addon is free on pc!!!!it should be free on 360 especially when I already pay XBL every year for a supposly premium service…

    RRoD, now this shit…disapointing microsoft…

  • Dannyb0yUK

    Major Nelson will never respond to this stuff. He’s just the face of sales for Microsoft, cleverly disguised as everyone’s good friend. He’s nothing more than a glorified PR man. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a pleasant bloke but Microsoft wont allow him to answer any of these questions. They know that nothing can ever stop them from all this and that the protests against these practices will never amount to anything more than some bitching and complaining online. We get conned time and time again, and MS will only ever respond with BS PR statements that somehow end up shining a good light on them. They wont ever acknowledge the fact that they con us royally be it through DLC such as this, through the far too expensive Live fees or through the price of add on hardware (I’ve no objection to it being additional, but not at the prices they charge, like with the Network adapter. That should be no more than £19.99 for what it is.)- they know that there’s nothing the consumer can ever do about it, so they’ll just ignore it.

  • Dannyb0yUK

    @My Big Boss- you should take your own advice about keeping your mouth closed. People already pay far too much just for Live access. The fact that PC owners get all this stuff without paying anything more than their internet bill is what annoys them. There’s no justification for it that will sit well with consumers. If you don’t like it, then don’t comment- but who the hell do you think you are telling other people to shut up? You’re a nobody, just another little boy on the internet.

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