Why more people play Left 4 Dead 2?

[Powerinpink]

I noticed in Steam top 100 played games that more people are still playing Left 4 Dead 2 and this game is not even on top 100. What caused this game to fail?

[ED13]

Because you can pick it up for $2

[Powerinpink]

Originally posted by EDKILL13:

Because you can pick it up for $2

The price doesn't stop a game from being on top 100 list, especially considering popularity of Left 4 dead one would assume that this game would be too. So there must be some problems with the game?

[Danoobiel]

Because mods.
I think there is more then 10 times the content in good player made maps then there ever will be for b4b.
That's just one more reason people are mad at the dev for not doing workshop.
Also ditching their game after one year LOL.

[smelly]

Game is better and it's way cheaper

[Your Neighbour]

Originally posted by Powerinpink:

I noticed in Steam top 100 played games that more people are still playing Left 4 Dead 2 and this game is not even on top 100. What caused this game to fail?

Mods

[Niliu]

Logically speaking, it could simply be because L4D2 has been out for a decade and is still playable. A lot of people have picked it up over the years. If the genre defining game is still playable, seems most would prefer to play it.

[Tazor]

The gore is the main reason I strongly prefer Left 4 Dead 2. Blood actually looks like REAL BLOOD (what a shocker) and not strawberry jam. When you shoot a zombie in L4D you get small blood splatters behind him just like it works in real life. Your weapons do visible damage to the zombies. The death animations are high quality. The pipe bomb causes bits to fly everywhere as opposed to a simple red cloud.

I can't play a L4D clone that has vastly inferior gore.

[Chym]

Workshop 🙂👌 mod , mod , mod and mod 👉 lots of fun

[Rabid Urko]

I picked this up because its mega cheap and looks a far better affair for SOLO which i would play, most play this SOLO imo.

[Rabid Urko]

Originally posted by Tazor:

The gore is the main reason I strongly prefer Left 4 Dead 2. Blood actually looks like REAL BLOOD (what a shocker) and not strawberry jam. When you shoot a zombie in L4D you get small blood splatters behind him just like it works in real life. Your weapons do visible damage to the zombies. The death animations are high quality. The pipe bomb causes bits to fly everywhere as opposed to a simple red cloud.

I can't play a L4D clone that has vastly inferior gore.

If you only play a game for its gore factor, you need to get out more.

[Kennedy]

L4D2 has better design, a bigger community, is still maintained by Valve for fixes and compatibility, has mod support, runs good on any hardware while still holding up visually, contains improved L4D1 for free and is less expensive.

[Tremendous]

Workshop.

[CohB]

Originally posted by Kennedy:

L4D2 has better design, a bigger community, is still maintained by Valve for fixes and compatibility, has mod support, runs good on any hardware while still holding up visually, contains improved L4D1 for free and is less expensive.

L4D2 hasn't been maintained by Valve since a year after release, just like Back 4 Blood. Visually it isn't great by today's standards.

Most of the people I run into when playing L4D (particularly versus) are from poorer regions with dated hardware so have limited choice when it comes to what games they can or can't play. I think that if L4D2 was remastered or re-released on a newer engine (UE5 for example) it would have a much smaller playerbase. CSGO is in the same boat, high player count after all these years, its gameplay is very basic, but it's accessible to a lot of people who aren't able to run much else.

[dum_dum]

i play l4D 1 &2 because the price and because of workshop.

[Vezner]

Originally posted by Kennedy:

L4D2 has better design, a bigger community, is still maintained by Valve for fixes and compatibility, has mod support, runs good on any hardware while still holding up visually, contains improved L4D1 for free and is less expensive.

^this.