As usual with Valve, the popular publisher continued to enhance the PC version of Left 4 Dead with free updates and downloadable contents; unfortunately, this generosity didn't extend to the owners of the Xbox 360 version of the game who had to pay for the exact same content.
Left 4 Dead writer Chet Faliszek explained the reason behind this unequal treatment and attributed it to Microsoft.
" We own our platform, Steam. Microsoft owns their platform. They wanted to make sure there's an economy of value there," he said. "It's not like [Valve is] looking at this as 'we need some money, we're going to charge,' obviously, or we'd do it on the PC. So it's just kind of the way the system works right now."
Left 4 Dead's latest DLC, dubbed "Crash Course" is available for free to PC players, while it costs the Xbox 360 players 560 Microsoft points.
