@MdK Speaking of presentation: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=235913595 You don't even need to attach any screenshots or videos (5 days on workshop but who knows maybe PC exploded just before uploading promo materials :D)
As long as tournaments function as a backdoor to the workshop system that allows shitty sets to bypass the system entirely, I'm against it. I think it's absolutely critical that tournament (and player/caster) items are held to at least the same standard if not a higher standard than regular workshop standard.
In a perfect world, this would be true. At this point I can imagine that a good P.O.A would to be to make the best damn item you can, and not market it on the Workshop side as being tied to a ticket, but then allow the ticket/tournament to show it off and have the promo information on their side. This might alleviate…
It's not ours to know or care what they do with their money. I can guarantee that the money valve makes off the workshop is honestly a drop in the bucket of their entire income. If they actually used the money for dev salaries, they would put time into it. It's honestly just a supplemental income diversifying their…
Here are a few more thoughts. Basically, I am not against the idea of bundling items with tournament tickets, or similar associations with third parties. I think in itself it's great, especially if it can benefit both parties and make everybody win and get better. I have been thinking about that a lot lately, wondering…
Dude, I feel the same way, it's incredible, not to mention how long it's been since a single ward or courier was implemented into the workshop without a ticket bundle. I can't help but think that I have to cut deals with organizations to get items implemented when in the past this wasn't the case. A few workshop artist and…
I wouldn't expect Valve to communicate this to the workshop community. From what I've noticed they don't even give tourney organizers a heads up regarding policy changes till the last minute.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1p9gle/why_dota_cimena_and_other_3rd_parties_should_stay/ I was upset about this last year. I could see the trend moving away from pure artistic merit to something more about marketing. The end game is that artists are getting less and less of the pie. It's a direction I don't like,…