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Left 4 Dead coming to PS3, ported by EA

The OPM, Official Playstation Magazine, has today revealed in its latest issue that Left 4 Dead will indeed be coming to Playstation3. It will be ported, once again, by EA. Quote:

"Valve's survival horror game Left 4 Dead is coming to PS3, but EA will be taking on development duties in-house."

The Orange Box PS3 has been one catastrophic port. For these past 8 months, PS3 gamers have repeatedly expressed their disgust and anger towards both EA and VALVE, asking for a fix. Even a petition started by Mike Seedon was published on this website: http://orangeboxpetition.com/

Will PS3 gamers do the same mistake twice? I do not think so.
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Published: 500 days 14 hours ago | Rumors | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Gaming | PC
 
 

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Bombibomb - 500 days 14 hours ago
1 - NICE! CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THIS PORT FROM EA HELLZ YEA!!!
EA = No thanks.

I'm more interested in that new Rockstar game. Could be the PS3 exclusive Jack Tretton mentioned last year.
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Genesis5 - 500 days 14 hours ago
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I think EA understands the PS3 hardware now. There won't be any problems with this game. I don't think they'll make the same mistake twice. They're in it for the money.
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sunnygrg - 500 days 13 hours ago
1.2 - Ugh..
Stop messing with my head, Valve and EA. If it turns out anything as the Orange Box, I will (insert bad word).
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Rock Bottom - 500 days 13 hours ago
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I don't think EA's engineers understand the PS2 hardware yet, not to mention PS3's.
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The Wood - 500 days 13 hours ago
1.4 - i dont care too much about left for dead
i feel ill take less slack because we know its coming so i cant be accused of being fanboyish or a hater. I honestly thought it looked graphically poor although the concept seemed fresh. I hope im wrong though and this game is good whether its better on the 360 or not
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gaffyh - 500 days 13 hours ago
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I knew it, I knew that Left 4 Dead would eventually be coming to PS3 as well. Although it's EA so it'll probably be a crappy port. So stay tuned to Left 4 Dead comparison video by GT.

EDIT: Actually wait a minute, is this confirmed? Cos the pic looks lik the rumour section of OPM...
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solidt12 - 500 days 13 hours ago
1.6 - Yeahh!!!!
This is a day one purchase for me. This game looks nutz.
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BobDog - 500 days 12 hours ago
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im gonna take the safe option and get it for my pc instead

dont trust ea with ps3 games
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HighDefinition - 500 days 11 hours ago
1.8 - EA
Like mostly everyone else is beginning to LOVE the PS3 so, I wouldn`t worry about this port.

BTW, this game looks amazing, and had me reconsidering getting another 360, but I don`t wanta pay for XBL again.

So I REALLY hope it comes to the PS3.
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mikeslemonade - 500 days 11 hours ago
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I played the orange box on PS3 and it wasn't that bad. The load times were longer on Portal, but i only noticed that it was because there was a comparison between the PS3 and 360 version. The Half life games ran fine and I never tried the original Half Life 2 except the beginning and that ran fine.

Left 4 Dead is still a rental. The game looks like crap cause it's running on the old and obsolete Half Life 2 ep 1 engine.
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ruibing - 500 days 11 hours ago
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Those greedy bastards, I really hope Valve gets bought by EA or Activision.
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Lifendz - 500 days 10 hours ago
1.11 - Sorry EA
fool me once...well, you know that saying. I'm not buying any ports or anything done by a group of devs that don't have the real talent. Thanks for nothing.
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CaptainHowdy - 500 days 10 hours ago
1.12 - I can't believe they didn't annouce it sooner
EA has no reason to neglect the ps3. After that report came out about it being their bread and butter, there should be no 360 exclusives from EA....now....let's talk Mass Effect....
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gameraxis - 500 days 10 hours ago
1.13 - i hear ya
this game will probably have a F*&^%ng virus in it that melts the cell, can't trust that fat bastad...
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meepmoopmeep - 500 days 10 hours ago
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mindless shooters = i'm not interested
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joe382 - 500 days 10 hours ago
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This is from the RUMOR section of the magazine I think. So this is just speculation.
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Overr8ed - 500 days 9 hours ago
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Well at Least we can say that EA knows how to use the PS3 now so their shouldnt be any errors in Ports. Well we will see.
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jwatt - 500 days 5 hours ago
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How about we just wait and see when the games come out. You can't suck at making ps3 games forever maybe this time they might get it right. I think by now they know how the ps3 community is and we don't except crap so I really don't think they will waste there time with a crappy port when we won't buy it.
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mikeslemonade - 500 days ago
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It's probably a timed exclusive for the PC and 360. I'm gonna play it once and return it. The concept of coop games is really good on paper, but when you actually play it's not really much fun because the AI shooters suck. Left 4 Dead doesn't seem to do much of anything different.
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Megatron08 - 500 days ago
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Given it a ps mag owned by sony i dont put much into it. Either way the trailer for it looked cool as hell and made it look really creepy but the gameplay showed at E3 looked dull and boring.
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Forbidden_Darkness - 500 days 14 hours ago
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Another stolen exclusive by the PS3.
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Bombibomb - 500 days 14 hours ago
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Yeah except Sony didn't steal anything. Kaz would rather take a bullet to the head.

Evil Assholes (EA) made the decision.
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Alexander Roy - 500 days 14 hours ago
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Let me guess... Sony paid 50 million Dollar (we all love that number, don't we?), so that Valve would ask EA to port the game.
After what they did with TOB.
Of course.
Now it all makes sense.

That was probably one of the least intelligent comments I read recently.
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Deviant - 500 days 14 hours ago
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wanna bet sony did have to pay 50 mil ..lol
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Idonthatejustcreate - 500 days 14 hours ago
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The truth is the PS3 is making EA a buttload of money mainly because it's growing fast and bluerays are much more expensive than a dvd-9.

So why would they not want to make this game in to a huge cash cow?

Sony have stated that they don't pay for 3rd party games so this is EA rubbing Sonys back while so EA can get it's back rubbed in return.

I bet 50 miljon that Sony dosn't even want this game on it's PS3 mainly because EA and valve suck ass on developing on the Cell processor, but who cares when they do it for free?
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Rob0g0rilla - 500 days 13 hours ago
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I don't want this on PS3. It's going to be messed up when they do PS3 users dirty again. I hope this is fake. PS3 users didn't do anything to deserve that sh!tty port. They're gamers too and they shouldn't have to deal with these guy's piss poor work and get charged 60 bucks for it. That's not fair.
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Jenzo - 500 days 13 hours ago
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I wonder what Sony paid for it.
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YogiBear - 500 days 12 hours ago
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Just like MSoft stole GTA and DMC.
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BobDog - 500 days 12 hours ago
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this was never a exclusive
was always on pc aslwell

when the game first started development ea just assumed ps3 would not be seeing such sales as is atm, so they just didnt bother to make a ps3 version because they would most likely loose money from it, now they see it in a different light though
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Diugu - 500 days 4 hours ago
2.9 - I sure hope sony isnt that idiotic...
... to pay a ton of money for one mindless shooter to be multiplatform. Money would be better spent getting a new ip or making GTAV or something like that exclusive... maybe securing FFXIII. I dont care.

I dont want this game and I hope it came for free... Sony should invest their money inteligently, get some RPGs, use it to make new IPs, give it to team ICO... SO MANY BETTER options than giving money to this more of the same game, infinite possibilities.
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Alexander Roy - 500 days 14 hours ago
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CONFIRMED: Left 4 Dead coming to PS3, will be another shoddy port by EA

Fixed.

Valve: "Yo guys, we've got another game you can screw up. Interested?"

EA: "Sure thing. Just send us uncomplete code this time, it was a hell of a lot work to cripple The Orange Box to that extent. We'll just make some code up if it doesn't run."

Valve: "Cool. Make sure you still charge the full price for a broken game. Oh and send the guys working on the patches on vacation again - I heard they secretly started to make things better."
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Bombibomb - 500 days 14 hours ago
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LMAO bubbles.
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Lord_Ash - 500 days 12 hours ago
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Dude that’s brilliant comedy, just for that take this bubble.
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mistertwoturbo - 500 days 11 hours ago
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Nah, you guys are getting it all wrong.

Valve: "EA, if you guys want to push this game beyond what we've done, go ahead and just use the SPU's in the cell"

EA: "What in the world are SPUs?"
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Skadoosh - 500 days 14 hours ago
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What was that???
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solidt12 - 500 days 13 hours ago
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Skadoosh,

You have to watch the Microsoft E3 conference to understand what he is talking about. At least I think I know where he was going with that. Idunno?
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Mr_Showtime1 - 500 days 12 hours ago
4.3 - no you dont
Hes just an illiterate idiot who should be in the open zone.

ON TOPIC: I wouldn't call this confirmation, it's in the rumor section of the magazine!
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Lord_Ash - 500 days 12 hours ago
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Dude, Open Zone please.
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darkequitus - 500 days 12 hours ago
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GO TO THE OPEN ZONE
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cp68 - 500 days 14 hours ago
5 - PS3 GAMERS, PLEASE DO NOT DO THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE
You have been treated worse than a garbage bag is, so please do not do the same mistake twice and let EA take advantage of you..or i should say your money.
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Jenzo - 500 days 11 hours ago
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Petition?
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bruiser81 - 500 days 11 hours ago
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i get where your coming from, but ps3 users not buying certain multi-plats only helps the 360. I know it sucks either way, but the only reason 360 get royal treatment is because its perceived to bring in a bigger cash flow.A lot of 360 owners buy games they dont even like to support their system, i have a lot of dumb friends who do so. "NOT" buying games only slows the ps3's potential
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00100 - 500 days 14 hours ago
6 - PS3 GAMERS, PLEASE DO NOT DO THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE
You have been treated worse than a garbage bag is, so please do not do the same mistake twice and let EA take advantage of you..or i should say your money.

(copy-paste from cp68, i thought of doing it because we need to spread the word. So please do spread it too)
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solidt12 - 500 days 13 hours ago
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I see your point but I have to have ths game on the PS3, I hope that EA has learned there lesson now and will do a proper port. IF anything we all should wait for a review and video if you are still concerned that the port might disappoint.
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Le-mo - 500 days 14 hours ago
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Add this to the rumor channel. The screen shown are from the rumour section.
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Rob0g0rilla - 500 days 14 hours ago
8 - ^^^^^Wow, you guys sure do seem eager to get your hands on this game
/sarcasm
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Alexander Roy - 500 days 14 hours ago
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Helloooo-hoooo~? What in the world is wrong with you? EA is like, the most bestestest developer in the world! Their ports, or as they are actually called, wonders, are known for their superb top-nodge quality.

Look at The Orange Box. They took games that were known for running far too good and had their best developers working on them to make them challenging again. Everybody and their kids can finish a game running at constant 60FPS. Besides, slowdowns aren't a problem, they are a feature. Just look at PoP: Sands of Time.

(If you don't recognize this as sarcasm, you are either EA or retarded. Actually, if the first is true, the second is given.)
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solidt12 - 500 days 13 hours ago
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I know I am. Im not blind. I saw how fun this game could be during the e3 demo's last year and this year. Plus I love zombies, and these zombies are coming from everywhere. The AI director that they are using is nuts. You never see the same enemies in the same location because of the AI director.
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