KungFuPanda I since 2012 in the workshop, and from the beginning it has not been an advertising platform. For me, this is exactly Workshop. You have a different view.
Do not confuse the store and workshop. Yet they serve different purposes and the aim of the workshop to show & vote and not selling! For sale we have dota2.com/store - and for advertising Valve use your Promo art I don't propose to abandon it.
Mmmm... I don't agree with this premise at all. Unlike the majority of workshop voters Valve gets to see the exact items in-game on their end. They have access to the model and texture files that get submitted, and will ask for the items to be resubmitted if they cannot be viewed. I know this from personal experience. So…
"Yet they serve different purposes and the aim of the workshop to show and not selling!" :) really? then you are ignoring all the hundreds of thousands of people voting in workshop? you think their vote doesn't matter? Showing something is selling. In the store yes most items are equal like you say, they all have the same…
Most people play Dota2 because they want to play Dota2. They want to play. And SOME, only SOME of those 10m users expand their interest beyond playing the game. I'm talking about the people who are actually interested in the workshop. That's a really small portion from the whole player community, keep that in mind. Adding…
I seriously doubt that any of this would make a difference. Although an in-game shot should be compulsory, players want to see something 'cool'. The workshop is like the front page of ebay, you look for something you're interested in. Although votes now are better distributed, the number of visitors still depends on the…
@bounch Yeah, I was mostly talking about how to get noticed on the workshop. Let's not get started on the quality of some stuff that's been accepted... haha. @AHelenek
That couldn't be farther from the truth. It's a community driven market where the community decides what they want to see added to the games they play, and valve pulls the trigger if they agree with the community. If you don't like marketing that's fine, no one is holding a gun to your head saying you have to do it. Nor…
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…