{"id":43669,"date":"2009-11-17T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=125180"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:00:54","slug":"and-the-left-4-dead-2-boycott-how%e2%80%99s-that-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43669","title":{"rendered":"And the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, how\u2019s that going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l4d2.jpg\" alt=\"l4d2\" title=\"l4d2\" width=\"620\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turned out that a lot of those so-called <i>Modern Warfare 2<\/i> protesters <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/13\/so-much-for-that-pc-version-modern-warfare-2-boycott\/\">were talking jive<\/A>, as they played the game late into the night, alone with their hypocrisy. (It&#8217;s overdramatic Tuesday, by the way.) How did the <i>Left 4 Dead II<\/i> protesters do?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5406736\/what-left-4-dead-2-boycotters-are-playing\">A little bit better<\/A>, yes. Less people in the Steam \u201cL4D Boycott\u201d group have turned their backs on their principles.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, now that <i>Modern Warfare 2<\/i> has dedicated servers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a shocker: I read Rock Paper Shotgun&#8217;s review of the <i>Left 4 Dead II<\/i> today, and now I&#8217;m very likely going to buy the game. My one reservation is that the Xbox 360 version ends up being ignored, like the Xbox 360 version of <i>Team Fortress 2<\/i> was. I need reassurances that Valve won&#8217;t stab me in the heart if I buy the game for the 360!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/y7rU9xfV7Gx_Gn1SrvhMZPE6o88\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/y7rU9xfV7Gx_Gn1SrvhMZPE6o88\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/y7rU9xfV7Gx_Gn1SrvhMZPE6o88\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/y7rU9xfV7Gx_Gn1SrvhMZPE6o88\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=rHH5nbb3dOM:K1IY_Qx2M9A:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=rHH5nbb3dOM:K1IY_Qx2M9A:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=rHH5nbb3dOM:K1IY_Qx2M9A:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=rHH5nbb3dOM:K1IY_Qx2M9A:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=rHH5nbb3dOM:K1IY_Qx2M9A:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out that a lot of those so-called Modern Warfare 2 protesters were talking jive, as they played the game late into the night, alone with their hypocrisy. (It&#8217;s overdramatic Tuesday, by the way.) How did the Left 4 Dead II protesters do? A little bit better, yes. Less people in the Steam \u201cL4D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}