​Despite the backlash from the PC community and hate from loyal Left 4 Dead fans calling Valve out for having a sequel so soon, the game's pre-orders show a success already. While speaking to CVG, Valve's Chad Faliszek claims that the numbers show Left 4 Dead 2 already has four times the amount of pre-orders that the original did.

Faliszek says the dark times are over and people are excited about the sequel:

"As we get closer to launch we see the reaction to the demo, pre-orders are four times what Left 4 Dead 1 was, people's excitement, the boycott itself and how it's changed... I think people are just excited now."

He goes on to talk about the boycott and how people reacted too quickly:

"One of the weird things at E3 was we knew we weren't showing the complete package, we knew there was a whole bunch of stuff we were holding back but we wanted to show something."

Faliszek also mentions some people are never happy:

"Honestly I made the joke and it's true: If you put $20 in a box and charge $10 for it someone would complain you didn't put $50 in a box. Not to say some of the concerns raised aren't valid, but you're always going to have some kind of upset and that's not how we work. We work at looking at the project and trying to get it out."