Yeah well the pre-orders alone are 4x more than the first Left 4 Dead’s preorders. Further adding to the puns surrounding Left 4 Dead.

Heh…FOUR times more than Left FOUR Dead Hah Hah

For those of you who don’t check the Left 4 Dead blog too often, and none would blame you, Erik Johnson posted on the 13th explaining that Gabe Newell and him had returned from their trip over in Australia. The visitation, for those who don’t keep up to date with the Valve news, was to test out Joe W-A’s Left 4 Dead campaign, after a few joke e-mails between the parties resulted in Joe W-A’s community forking over $3000 in under 48 hours.

The blog post explained that Valve was unable to actually make the contributors pay for their ticket, and instead donated the $3000 to Child’s Play, a video game based charity organization. However, they still counted the contributors donations in a pretty long image, showing the contributor’s name, amount and the distance that amount got them. The chart can be found by clicking the image below:

Pictures from the trip, as well as videos and information can be found on the Fly Gabe Newell blog set up by Joe W-A.

The well-known L4D2 Boycott Group a group who was against Left 4 Dead 2 since it’s announcement has decided to close it’s doors on October 21st. The owner of the group know as “Agent Of Chaos” has said the group has completed it’s mission which was to make sure the first L4D would still get updates. Agent Of Chaos and fellow leader of the group “Walking_Target” appear to believe that L4D will in fact continue to be supported by Valve and have proven this with the newly released Crash Course campaign which was released last September.

The announcement also goes on to say that it’s goal was not to turn people off to L4D despite it’s page where it says that members of the group refuse to purchase the game until their demands are addressed, which they were back in June. This news comes from a recent report on the L4D2 pre-sales alone make the game the fastest-selling product in Valve’s history. Whether these incidents are related or not is up to you.

But according to many of the comments about the announcement it’s just a sellout.

The boycott has failed, why? Because the owners are a bunch of easily pursuaded sell outs.

What. A bunch of fucking sellouts..

FUCK THIS, i am still not buying it, I am so mad at valve, it still should not be a full game.

Free trips to Valve HQ (and probable loot, t-shirts and free cola) apparently make people forget that the whole boycott started because the ‘content’ scheduled for L4D was held back and re-packaged (EA style) into L4D2.

Liars! They bribed you to give up the boycott.

You guys are sellouts…

how much valve payed you guys to write this?

Some more L4D2 footage surfaced on the web a couple of days ago. It’s just composed of a ton of small clips. If you ask me the frequent cuts get annoying, but at least it’s something.

I for one still don’t think this will be worth 50$.