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As to 'supposed social covenant', didn't Valve outright say that they would support L4D the way they did TF2? Not that the press is innocent when it comes to this; I remember from the reviews of L4D more or less went 'yeah, there are only a handful of maps, but this is Valve so you know they'll support it with updates like TF2'. I don't imagine we'll be seeing apologies or retractions in the media, will we?

And what I'm saying is that if you haven't watched the show before (which you clearly haven't, from your comment), how can you measure intent? It seems to me that the only reason you even watched this show was for fodder so you could continue hating on Dante's Inferno. I'm not saying that the Jace Hall Show is the Waiting for Guffman of Video game shows, but it generally is about game personalities saying or doing outrageous things -- very often playing to internet prejudices.

Have you folks ever watched the Jace Hall show? Did you see the one with Jack Thompson? The one at id, with the flashlight taped to a shotgun for DOOM 4? Or the Paul Steed vs. Jason Hall hot sauce macho-off? It's stupid, clearly, but it's not a 'typical' Video game show like Gametrailers. I'm not really looking to defend Dante's Inferno but the show is very much about straight-faced self-deprecation. And since you've already made up your minds on the game it's very likely that everything you see about the game will be absolutely terrible.