Community Weapons going out
- Thread starter JoshuaC
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Valve have given us physical prizes to give out for contests.. you never know what might happen in the future
Fearlezz
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Valve have given us physical prizes to give out for contests.. you never know what might happen in the future
Aha! Everyone, he just confirmed it!
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Pilk
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Personally I'd like to state I'm not at all jealous of the weapons because I think they are deserved by those who wield them. It will make those working to contribute something to the community try even harder and we can only get something good out of that.
Fearlezz
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Voogru also did something like this, he faked a valve rocket launcher. But didnt manage to change the attributes. He did get it in his backpack or something, cant remember.
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he didnt fake a valve rocket launcher. he did something more interesting.
http://forums.voogru.com/team-fortress/12972-item-experimentation.html
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Oh dear lord no. I can see it now: Servers running their own backpack-clouds. Donators get significantly buffer variations of regular weapons. Hyjinx ensue. :facepalm:
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If that's true, I am exceedingly disappointed. The people who match that criteria have already been rewarded in significant ways. This isn't to say they shouldn't get sparkly weapons, but rather...
Let me put it this way. Valve can't afford to make every map, model, or texture official. But the community weapons can be likened to a currency they can mint themselves. I can't think of one good reason NOT to also award them to people who have put a lot of hours into supporting Valve's product, but haven't actually sold anything to Valve.
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I think the problem is that "Community Contributor" implies a far more inclusive group than "People Who Sold Something To Valve".
And that brings in all sort of nasty subjective calls about what does or doesn't quality. Sourcemod plugins? Major server operators? Model-meisters? People who go out of their way to reproduce, test, and document bugs? TF2Wiki contributors?
And that brings in all sort of nasty subjective calls about what does or doesn't quality. Sourcemod plugins? Major server operators? Model-meisters? People who go out of their way to reproduce, test, and document bugs? TF2Wiki contributors?
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And then we get into Valve making determinations over whether a particular contribution is "enough"... And issues of whether a modification of an older script to do something sorely-needed-but-easy is "enough", and somebody will always be overlooked...
Almost better to keep the hard-and-fast rules for what qualifies, and just to rename the whole category to make it clear how exclusive it is.
Almost better to keep the hard-and-fast rules for what qualifies, and just to rename the whole category to make it clear how exclusive it is.
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Valve is repaying those who support the game with constant free updates and listening to their requests. Without the community there would be no content updates.
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Everyone gets this, so it's a moot point.
