Left 4 Dead pre-orders topping Orange Box

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Left 4 Dead pre-orders topping Orange Box

Posted Oct 17th 2008 11:15AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Left 4 Dead

If you've pre-ordered Left 4 Dead -- and we wouldn't blame you -- consider yourself part of a new sales phenomenon. Valve's Doug Lombardi made it known yesterday that Left 4 Dead pre-orders at retail are already outpacing those of The Orange Box during the same time frame by 65%. Said Lombardi, "With just over four weeks until launch, Left 4 Dead is showing every sign of topping The Orange Box on both the PC and Xbox 360, at retail as well as on Steam." The upshot of all this? Evidently people like shooting zombies, and apparently they love shooting them with friends.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: left-4-dead, valve, valve-software

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

10-17-2008 @ 11:20AM

dicknjane said...

i'm going to pre-order it next week. i just paid off my pre-orders for Fallout 3 and Gears 2 last nite. thank god for gamestop's "power trades."

10-17-2008 @ 11:04PM

josh said...

Or you could go to Blockbuster and get better trade-ins
Mass Effect Gamestop: $7
Mass Effect Blockbuster: $18
and so on and so forth.

10-17-2008 @ 11:29AM

joeybeast said...

Who wouldn't want to shoot zombies with friends.

10-17-2008 @ 11:32AM

Fluffy said...

Shooting zombies and eating people i can think of a better thing :P

10-17-2008 @ 12:24PM

Neuromancer said...

Zombie outbreaks are like sex, even when they're bad they're still pretty good.

10-17-2008 @ 12:12PM

Tony said...

I'm actually kind of surprised by this. Game looks good and everything, but I didn't know it was on that many people's radars.

10-17-2008 @ 1:01PM

K Fed said...

I'm preordering fallout 3, but i never was really into this one...

but now i think i might check it out, i love online co-op

10-17-2008 @ 2:03PM

Weclock said...

You used the wrong hand for the logo. That's a right hand, it's supposed to be the left hand.
hence LEFT 4 dead (as in, left hand, four fingers).

10-17-2008 @ 2:23PM

Avan said...

blame Richard, valve fixed the hand not long ago

10-17-2008 @ 4:05PM

AnthonyGalindoX said...

Can't wait to use the game to train for the upcoming zombie apocalypse. Then I have to figure out what I'm going to do when the robots we create to deal with the zombies revolt and destroy what's left of humanity.

10-17-2008 @ 4:51PM

BobTheElephant said...

I definitely pre-ordered and am looking forward to it but I also didn't realize that so many people were keeping an eye on it...

10-17-2008 @ 4:54PM

Bluestreak2 said...

I pre-ordered on steam 20 minutes after they put it up there.
The official forums that day were CRAZY.

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