And Quit Being a Bunch of Ungrateful People

• Left 4 Dead 2 is the result of the original L4D team wanting to create more and greater content. The fact that they turned it out so quickly is only a result of their dedication to the project, not out of half-assed money grabbing. As a side note, if you played through L4D's commentary, you would know that The Director makes it much quicker and easier to make new levels, as it takes a large portion of the placework out of the equation.
• Just because we're getting Left 4 Dead 2 doesn't mean Left 4 Dead is going to suffer the XBOX/360 conversion situation; it's not just going to come to a crashing halt for something new and shiny. There's still going to be new content added to the original Left 4 Dead. While I understand there's still a fear of "splitting the player base" (not that I've ever had a problem finding PUG's), that's like bitching that Halo 3 was going to split the Halo 2 user base. You're just being childish at that point, honestly.
• Xbox is a problem. There is no way around it. Left 4 Dead is a huge presence on the 360 and Microsoft has a bunch of weird rules set in place to keep the regular kinds of content Valve wants to push onto the platform. Just look at Team Fortress 2. It hasn't seen any of the class updates at all. Hell the Pyro still doesn't even have a compression blast to his flamethrower. There's also the problem of people not having hard drives and not being able to receive the content due to various problems, none the least of which are M'soft's restrictions and practices. Valve is trying to find solutions, but it's not always so easy.
• And on a personal note from me: has Valve ever put out a bad game? I mean really put out a bad game? I think at this point they've earned enough "brownie points" with the years of absolutely top-notch, high-quality products and services. Is the benefit of the doubt to much to ask?