Again in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Useless 2, saying the footage “appears prefer it’s straight from a high-gloss motion film.” In the present day, we have to provide an vital replace to this significant, 17-year-old story: The trailer “leak” was orchestrated by Valve itself.
That information comes courtesy of former Valve author Chet Faliszek, who said in a newly posted video about lower traces within the recreation that “for Left 4 Useless 2 with the ESRB… we leaked our trailer forward of time as a result of they would not allow us to launch the trailer.”
Faliszek is in fact referring to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the self-regulating trade group that since 1994 has supplied sometimes questionable age-appropriateness scores for 1000’s of video games submitted to its purview. Whereas many smaller and/or online-focused recreation makers skip out on getting these scores nowadays, on the time, any writer that wished area on main retailers’ cabinets wanted to undergo the ESRB’s requirements.