Nice article and nice retort by Snarkasm. I am on the fence. I can see that Valve is a business and needs to fund it's projects and put money in their pockets but I also see that Valve has a rather tough road to competing with itself and TF2. If TF2 hadn't had so many updates for free I'm guessing L4D2 wouldn't be as big of an issue. However, since Valve DID provide so many things for free for TF2 they put themselves into a tight spot by not giving the same to L4D.