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.
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This is something that affects all of us, and so I hope that you take this news in consideration.
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.