Important News Regarding Modding and the Community - Via the Emporium

Fruity Snacks

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I want to share this news that popped up. Apparently Emporium Member Frying Dutchman has been in contact with Valve regarding community content creators. I thought I'd share it with you.

Important Emporium news

I've recently been contacted by Valve, and they've kindly offered me two things regarding the TF2 Emporium community.
First of all due to it's ongoing contributions over the years, Valve has offered to add me as service provider!
Second of all, Valve shed some light on the changes they're planning regarding modding in TF2.

Now, I am restricted in what I'm allowed to say.

So as a solution to lessen the blow of these big changes, I went ahead and reformed the TF2 Emporium community we know and love, to the new robust "Workshop Thread"
As you can see in the original post of this thread, the whole post has been cleaned and rearranged.

Why are we changing names and focus?
Valve has come to the conclusion that modding itself needs to be discouraged and contributing to the workshop encouraged!
This has led them in the past to force sv_pure on servers, and now the next step reaching out to the community.
So from now on the Workshop Thread will no longer host or feature mods.
Instead it will provide services to contributors in how to best upload their work, what trend is coming to Team Fortress 2 and boosting votes & views.


I hope this post has informed everyone well enough, and all of us can move on to the next phase of TF2's lifecycle.

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This is something that affects all of us, and so I hope that you take this news in consideration.
 
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Did you also notice it was posted on April 1?
 

Izotope

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Valve has come to the conclusion that modding itself needs to be discouraged and contributing to the workshop encouraged!

If this is an April Fools joke, good one.
If this isn't a joke, this is sad.
 

seth

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If this is an April Fools joke, good one.
If this isn't a joke, this is sad.

I think it's sad either way. It sounds too typical of Valve to be a joke and if it's not it kinda sucks for mappers because we still don't have a fucking workshop.
 

Kraken

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"Valve? Communicating with a member of the community? This is obviously an April Fools joke."

Heh.

That is unfortunedly very true, they don't have released any community maps in over a year.
:(
 

Pocket

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What's an Emporium?
 

henke37

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While I know it's April 1st, understand that I have no sense of humor and that I would not joke about something this important.

Said the guy who runs the joke gameday.
 

Zed

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While I know it's April 1st, understand that I have no sense of humor and that I would not joke about something this important.

That doesn't mean he wouldn't.
 
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So as a solution to lessen the blow of these big changes, I went ahead and reformed the TF2 Emporium community we know and love, to the new robust "Workshop Thread"
As you can see in the original post of this thread, the whole post has been cleaned and rearranged.
I don't get it. What big changes? Did they already take place?
What did he reform and what is the new robust workshop thread?
Since when is the tf2 workshop clean and rearranged?

Valve has come to the conclusion that modding itself needs to be discouraged and contributing to the workshop encouraged!
Why would Valve discourage us modders, and how will they encourage contributing to the workshop when there ISN'T ONE?