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Lemm said:

I’m not trying to screw them.. I plan on keeping both copies and playing both.

You are, yes. I know you wouldn’t do that. At least one other has posted here that he planned on not keeping both and I imagine there are more like him than there are like you :(

 

 

Lemm said:

I don’t understand why it’s hard to believe.. L4D2 already stores this stuff in a cloud. The PS3 is supposed to have access to most all of the steam features.. Why would the PC version not have access to this.. it just doesn’t make sense.

L4D2 stores stats in a cloud. That’s easy. You’re simply updating a database somewhere. Creating a repository for 10-20 million peoples’ save game files at 500kB-1MB per save is not. Not only that but it would mean that the PS3 savegame files have to be identical to the PC version, and vice versa. I know XBOX stores in different formats, even for poorly ported games. It’s just a leap is all I’m saying.

 

What I don’t understand is why the XBOX wasn’t given similar treatment. MS has already made it compatible with PCs before, so it should be possible. Only thing I can think of is maybe Sony threw some money Gabe’s way to make him go the extra distance. As we all know, Gabe responds positively to cash injected directly into the bank account.

 

 

Lemm said:

even though kip made me feel like I lost

#WINNING

 

You’re right. We’ll just have to wait and see. So far there’s been so little info released that it’s hard to guage whether any of this will actually be working on release day, and most of it may not. That’s been the M.O. lately, release a game barebone and push out the promised features later through automatic updates.