I think you don't understand the essence of my post. Votes are important and they are the main workshop filter. But if the people vote only for the beautiful previews, and not for what the item is actually in the game - I think it is not correct.
Personally, I think a workshop artbook would be fantastic. I love seeing all the work in progresses and bits and pieces. Concept sheets, design evolution, and high poly sculpts... and then how it finally gets realized into an actual model itself. Just throwing that out there. In case anyone else would be interested, rofl.…
This really ought to have been how the workshop operated from the start. Perhaps some integration with the Workshop Tools will allow for something like this to happen? Personally I'd like to be able to fully preview the models outside of Dota 2, and the model viewer doesn't really work for me. If Valve provides a version…
Nah. And CSGO is beginning to go down the same path, with more elaborate marketing now that some users are doing it full time. TF2 went down the same route. It's just the nature of the beast. Gotta love the wild wild west. :thumbup: Just compare for yourself the current content compared to the content we saw at launch. Not…
No problem if you don't agree, but that is how sales work in the real world.. The workshop is just like presenting (selling) your invention to a potential investor (valve), who can decide to invest or not.. and by the way I say selling because valve already takes 75% of everything which means that by posting your item in…
I do, ugly presentation => less people visiting the workshop => less people know or care about the item => less people would buy it if it were to be sold => artists and valve would make less cash => valve will not restrict people like this because they like making money (same with the artists).
Why it seems to me - wrong is how items looks now in the workshop. We spend time to making that our models looked better and the people vote for them but often they don't look the same in the game! I think it would be better if the screenshots for the page in the workshop been made inside the game client automatically or…
Advertising is the result of market groth. You know that right ? in 1900's Ford's the first cars were all black, you know why? because there was no competition, you buy it black or don't buy at all. Ford back then was like valve is now with workshop.. but ford made the error of NOT using advertising and not making their…
Creating a separate tool to view - not much change the situation. I see it - Having finished item you open Dota 2 Client Loading a model and choose the desired angle, the light and the position of the camera (it is also possible to do the other things transparent or hide them if necessary) and then click Done, a screenshot…
I fully agree with Chemical Alia. Love it or hate it, the workshop is a pretty successful tool for getting things into the game, and getting views on quality work. Very rarely do high quality sets get passed by with little to no votes. There are clearly cases of vote-botting, and parties trading a percentage of potential…