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Crash Course for Left 4 Dead was supposed to be released before E3

Remember when Valve announced at E3 that they would be releasing Left 4 Dead 2 in November? And remember when some fans decided to be mean and say they were going to boycott the game because they felt that Left 4 Dead 1 wasn't being supported enough by free extra content. And then do you remember a few weeks ago when Valve announced Crash Course, a new free campaign for Left 4 Dead 1 coming in September? And then do you remember the same people slamming Valve again saying they created this "quickie" campaign because of all of their protests? Yeah . . .that was fun (Not really).

Well as it turns out, Crash Course was actually supposed to be released prior to E3, according to Valve's Chet Faliszek. In a new chat over at Offworld, he says, "Of course we also intended to get the Crash Course DLC for L4D out before E3, but some things held us up."

He admits, "We didn't make it clear that Left 4 Dead was still going to be updated. We just didn't think to mention it, we were focusing on other stuff." He added, "I think if we had that out before the Left 4 Dead 2 announcement, then it would have been clearer for our intentions. Losing the opportunity to get that right hurt us, but I think we made the right choices otherwise."

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