Let's make TF2M some money: purchasable emoticons

[ardysqrrl]

I've had this idea for a while but it really hit home when I wanted to post

on the void's stories thread

so this is a pretty simple idea: submit a png of some maximum size along with a cash donation (10-15 dollars is probably sufficient) and then the emoticon is added to the forums!

I'm aware that the forums support inline images but using emoticon codes is far more snazzy.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I'm not down for this, basically because I barely use emoticons... also I now notice that the forums have advertisments now inbetween some posts... which bugs me a little.

 

[Bermuda Cake]

I wanted to post

on the void's stories thread

I wanted to post

uh

 

[tyler]

I'm not down for this, basically because I barely use emoticons... also I now notice that the forums have advertisments now inbetween some posts... which bugs me a little.

...does it?

edit: nvm im dumb i figured out why i dont see them

 

[ardysqrrl]

maybe if you bought more emoticons the forums wouldn't need to have ads

 

[Fruity Snacks]

maybe if you bought more emoticons the forums wouldn't need to have ads

Or I could do what people normally do, which is get veep...

I think more perks for veep besides just upload/no adverts/server/veep would be better than micro transactions. Even though this is a TF2 community, lets not become TF2.

 

[drp]

I'm not down for this, basically because I barely use emoticons... also I now notice that the forums have advertisments now inbetween some posts... which bugs me a little.

yep 2 more ad banners after 1st and last. sorry guys, but the servers need to be paid for.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

yep 2 more ad banners after 1st and last. sorry guys, but the servers need to be paid for.

I will get Veep soon... I have more money than I expected (*yay*) so another month or 2 will be in order....

I still think that more veep exclusive/alluring perks would be more benificial than micro-transactions in the TF2Maps.net Gift shop (see previous thread on avatar hats). Maybe make the expanded emoticons and avatar hats part of being a VIP... I think that with drp and the lotteries, those potentially will be good ways to get people to want to get VIP. It looks like we have a lot of newer mappers coming in now, so thats also good.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

I'm pretty sure both of these suggestions by ardy have been tongue-in-cheek and not exactly serious. In case that has gone over some heads.

 

[Vincent]

Can't really believe people don't notice him trolling.

 

[ardysqrrl]

it's not trolling

 

[Vincent]

A very bad joke sounds a bit less harsh I suppose.

 

[ardysqrrl]

okay I admit this one wasn't funny but I think people got a good laugh out of avatar hats

 

[Fruity Snacks]

okay I admit this one wasn't funny but I think people got a good laugh out of avatar hats

I did laugh at the hats...

Though, with the addition of the new adverts, it is hard to tell if this is or is not a joke.

 

[Pocket]

I think more perks for veep besides just upload/no adverts/server/veep would be better than micro transactions. Even though this is a TF2 community, lets not become TF2.

I was thinking more of Something Awful's forum, which I don't believe charges extra for emoticons but charges for damn near everything else forum users usually take for granted.

 

[Wilson]

We need hats for all these smileys, that is ALL we need, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[ardysqrrl]

I was thinking more of Something Awful's forum, which I don't believe charges extra for emoticons but charges for damn near everything else forum users usually take for granted.

SA charges 30 bucks if anybody wants to add a new emote and they're doing just fine

I think the greatest feature of SA though is the ability to purchase new avatars and title text for other people

 

[LeSwordfish]

...That sounds hilarious.

 

[tyler]

There's a reason I don't use or care about SA, though. Try to figure it out.

 

[ardysqrrl]

is it that you don't have a credit card