Valve Explains Priced DLC For L4D On 360 News

While Valve managed to offer its first portion of Left 4 Dead DLC for free on both Xbox 360 and PC, this will not be the case with its incoming 'Crash Course' content, which will be free of charge on the PC but is set to cost 560 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360.

This, according to Valve's Chet Faliszek, was a decision that was not left down to Valve but was made by Microsoft instead. "We own our platform, Steam. Microsoft owns their platform. They wanted to make sure there's an economy of value there," he explained.

"They helped us get the first one out for free," Faliszek said of Left 4 Dead's 'Survival' DLC. "We had the one DLC out for free. And I think... they have to look and say, wow, we're kind of being unfair to everybody else if these guys can do that."

"It's not like we're [Valve is] looking at this as, 'Oh my god, we need some money, we're going to charge,' obviously, or we'd do it on the PC," he continued. "So it's just kind of the way the system works right now."

There you have it. If you're an Xbox 360 owner who wants somebody to blame for the priced 'Crash Course' DLC on Xbox Live, then blame Microsoft.

Source: Eurogamer.