You lost me at "everyone on equal footing". If one feels that attention to their submissions on the workshop was lagging as a result of poor marketing, then they should be trying to improve in that area, not dragging everyone down to their "equal" level. Certainly most people who take the whole Workshop thing seriously…
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…
You and Andrew are pretty much right - it's all pretty much self imposed, but it's also driven by the sheer amount of competition. Lots of artists fighting for very few chances to get their items into the game, so its natural to find ways to maximise our chances by doing everything we can. I'm thinking that this mentality…