Help Us Pay it Forward

[Fruity Snacks]

I want a map workshop, but I don't want a map workshop...

I'm now having mixed feelings on the subject.

 

[Leminnes]

I want a map workshop, but I don't want a map workshop...

I'm now having mixed feelings on the subject.

I want it. Whatever negatives it might have, I believe the positives outweigh it.

But I'm sure we've had this conversation before.

 

[YM]

Yes, because it is assuming that people are going to pay for maps.

My bank balance suggests that they already do.

 

[Prestige]

modellers have already given me $100,000 b/c of the flame of war.

 

[PoignardAzur]

Yes, because it is assuming that people are going to pay for maps.

Call of Duty's DLCs, anyone ?
(seriously, if they pay for hats, some of them will pay for map, won't they ? ^^)

 

[Crash]

You don't want to go with the DLC method of distributing maps with TF2 because then the player base is pretty drastically fractured.

 

[fubarFX]

not to mention that all the maps made by the community have a bsp floating around the web somewhere, you can't really lock these things down (and we thank valve for that).

the only monetizing model I can think of for maps (other than stamps and strange weapons) is to allow everyone to play the map but offer the possibility to sell map skins (yes pyrovision)

 

[Trotim]

In MvM or in the possibly upcoming ingame lobby system you could give the mappers part of the ticket revenue, e.g. playing lobbies on cp_process is fine normally but with a Process ticket it keeps track of all your stats for like x number of matches on that map. And because it's a community map the mapper gets part of the money made from this

 

[henke37]

They did that by the strange filter parts.

 

[PMAvers]

You don't want to go with the DLC method of distributing maps with TF2 because then the player base is pretty drastically fractured.

Yeah, the only reason I could ever see forcing players to pay for maps would be a "good" idea would be if your game's longevity is in doubt and you want to make a quick buck before the next annual installment that everyone drops the previous one for and buys comes out.

(Hence why I don't play the spunkgargleweewee genre.)