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Hitchhiking One More Time
Nov. 21st, 2009 01:25 amSTEAM CLOUDED OVER!
In a startling turn of events, the achievements acquired by a large proportion of Left4Dead 2 gamers mysteriously vanished following the latest Steam client update. Rumour has it that this was the work of the ninth, unreleased Special Infected, the Swallower. This disaster is in conjunction with the equally unexplained spread of the unnamed infection in L4D, which turned normal people into mindlessly violent zombies, from the game into real life, as members of the Steam boards turned into frothing-at-the-mouth, incoherently babbling, mindlessly ranting zombies. It is unknown if Steam will be able to rectify this problem, or if CEDA personnel will be sent out to round up all rabid gamers before they start kicking and biting healthy people.
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Seriously, Steam, what the hell?
I'm a little annoyed at the loss of something like 17-odd achievements, but it's more of an inconvenience than anything else - I can get those back with a couple more playthroughs. I can't help but feel sorry for those who'd gone and gotten the Expert achievements, though, only to lose it. That must hurt.
AND ANOTHER THING...
I will say this:
I cannot believe I completely forgot that Eoin Colfer was writing the sixth installment of the late Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy in five parts". I read the news sometime last year, got all excited over it - after the bleakness of Mostly Harmless, ARTHUR DENT IS ALIVE! - and then... somehow managed to forget about it entirely. Until I hit the bookstore today (how obscene, when I still have a mountain of unread books), and it screamed at me: And Another Thing: Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three. Oi.
[geeks out]
In a startling turn of events, the achievements acquired by a large proportion of Left4Dead 2 gamers mysteriously vanished following the latest Steam client update. Rumour has it that this was the work of the ninth, unreleased Special Infected, the Swallower. This disaster is in conjunction with the equally unexplained spread of the unnamed infection in L4D, which turned normal people into mindlessly violent zombies, from the game into real life, as members of the Steam boards turned into frothing-at-the-mouth, incoherently babbling, mindlessly ranting zombies. It is unknown if Steam will be able to rectify this problem, or if CEDA personnel will be sent out to round up all rabid gamers before they start kicking and biting healthy people.
------------------
Seriously, Steam, what the hell?
I'm a little annoyed at the loss of something like 17-odd achievements, but it's more of an inconvenience than anything else - I can get those back with a couple more playthroughs. I can't help but feel sorry for those who'd gone and gotten the Expert achievements, though, only to lose it. That must hurt.
AND ANOTHER THING...
I will say this:
I cannot believe I completely forgot that Eoin Colfer was writing the sixth installment of the late Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy in five parts". I read the news sometime last year, got all excited over it - after the bleakness of Mostly Harmless, ARTHUR DENT IS ALIVE! - and then... somehow managed to forget about it entirely. Until I hit the bookstore today (how obscene, when I still have a mountain of unread books), and it screamed at me: And Another Thing: Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three. Oi.
[geeks out]
