Yeah, there's even a new lobby system! I may not donate to SpA, but I will certainly donate money to Valve for this brilliant game.
Thx for the notice bob and thx for your wonderful support. I'm sure this will do wonders to improve your application for SpA.
OK, there's no need to be like that. You misread my message. I said I 'may' not donate to SpA as in the present tense, not the future tense. And since when did donating money increase the likelihood of joining a group?
I've had my share of spending 50 euros on a game you thought was goin to be cool to host and play it till your eyes bleed, but in fact it sucked arse big time.
I'm not gonna buy a multiplayer game more expensive then 20 euros unless I know for sure we're gonna host it and that it's cool.
The whole zombie thing is pretty hard to make a good game with. The only ones who succeeded in my eyes are resident evil and FEAR. They're both single player games (the FEAR multiplayer was an epic fail lads, don't wanna talk about that). I have strong doubts to think that l4d will be one of them.
My advise to you is donate some of your precious money to SpA. We'll have our new server earlier that way. That means that we will have room for a complete other game soon. That means we can launch a new game server as soon as we find something that we think is worth hosting. When we finally set our minds to that, and some of us have bought the game, you could buy the same game.
No offence, but you have no say, that will have an outcome, on what the people in this forum buy.