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Dota 2 |OT2| Ellen Pudge starring in Beyond Two Throws
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BoosterDuck
Banned
come on in let's play some Doters
need dat leeg o legunds monies
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
My Pudge gems sold, so I'm up $8+ dollars. ~$6 profit on a key is not too shabby. There's so many cruddy gems that I'm not sure it's really worth investing in gem cache treasure as a normal thing though.
Also sneak preview of what I'm currently working on. May or may not work out and be completed. Very WIP ofc.
Also sneak preview of what I'm currently working on. May or may not work out and be completed. Very WIP ofc.
balladofwindfishes
Member
What's the point of even having a workshop if a set gets tons of votes, enough to be added, and then is added and the community demands it be removed.
How frustrating that must be for Valve. To have the community say they want it added and then when you add it the community says they don't want it anymore.
How frustrating that must be for Valve. To have the community say they want it added and then when you add it the community says they don't want it anymore.
Sigismundo
Member
To be fair (and you know this) you can't group the community up into one group.
What Facepunch and GAF wants is very, very different to what Reddit wants.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Ultimately, Valve offers everyone in the community the ability to vote and comment on what they want in the game.
It just seems people feel they can just skip this step, be lazy, whine enough, and get their way despite the people who actually bothered to take Valve up on their feedback system getting trampled on in the process.
If the community as a whole feels so passionately about Dota 2's style, they shouldn't be so lazy about voting on the workshop.
balladofwindfishes
Member
That lantern is cartoonishly huge lol
Why do people not like the Drow set? Its super well done.
Is it because of the cat ears? They are not sexualized or anything.
Drow doesn't have any good sets besides the Boreal set so I dig this one.
Is it because of the cat ears? They are not sexualized or anything.
Drow doesn't have any good sets besides the Boreal set so I dig this one.
Reddit's hardcore hating on this set too.
balladofwindfishes
Member
I love the people who come out of the woodwork to admit they were too lazy to check the workshop every so often but are appalled Valve listened to those uncultured swine who actually bothered to take Valve up on their offer to provide feedback.
Now now, let's not assume that workshop is even representative of the wants of the community and that it's everybody's duty to moderate the content of the game via workshop voting
The people who check workshop to vote are those who buy sets, but the people who are upset come from the larger group of people who play the game - because they will inevitably see it in their games. The workshop is a place to determine what is worthy to enter the game, not a place for the wider community to veto sets they do not like. Ultimately, the pool of sets to potentially veto are much greater than the sets that will enter the game and is an asymmetric effort for the community.
This actually just highlights valves lazy attitude to the game (or just the community), hoping that the workshop will just run and moderate itself when it ultimately can't in the cases of divisive sets. At the end of the day though, it's less effort for them to let the community whine and just fix it afterwards.
The people who check workshop to vote are those who buy sets, but the people who are upset come from the larger group of people who play the game - because they will inevitably see it in their games. The workshop is a place to determine what is worthy to enter the game, not a place for the wider community to veto sets they do not like. Ultimately, the pool of sets to potentially veto are much greater than the sets that will enter the game and is an asymmetric effort for the community.
This actually just highlights valves lazy attitude to the game (or just the community), hoping that the workshop will just run and moderate itself when it ultimately can't in the cases of divisive sets. At the end of the day though, it's less effort for them to let the community whine and just fix it afterwards.
balladofwindfishes
Member
but it's is. It's happened before with the thousands of sets and items with low votes because people don't like them.
I just don't see how the community can have the audacity to feel their opinion matters more post release of a set than before its released. Valve doesn't hide the workshop, if the style of the game matters that much to people, they should use every opportunity to express their opinion. Valve aren't mind readers, and they've provided a way for the community to say what they want or don't want in the game. If the majority of the community doesn't use this channel, oh well. Sucks for those community members.
My point was that the people who actively participate on workshop is generally limited to those who actively buy sets, which is a small subset of the group of people who would be affected by existence of said skins
What, you can't ignore cat ears N tails
SteveWinwood
Member
at least we dont have sets that change the tp animation to a strip pole dance
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
...yet
Pureauthor
Member
Well those are the people who are passionate/stupid/greedy enough to put in the effort needed to get sets they like and keep out sets they don't, so if the people complaining feel passionate about not wanting silly stuff in their games they really should invest time into keeping them out. Otherwise they obviously don't care that much.
On that note I want to see /d2g/'s reaction to this
Should pull a turn 10 and cut the price in half as an "apology", then make the cut permanent so everyone that bought it while simultaneously complaining about it gets screwed over.
Pureauthor
Member
Dota is currently buggy and delayed as fuck. Don't worry too much.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Okay maybe gemstone caches are worth investing in. Just got enemy heroes hooked which is worth $10+ dollars.
Also got debuffs purged for Slark in that chest, though I don't have anything good to put it on.
Also got debuffs purged for Slark in that chest, though I don't have anything good to put it on.
No, it doesn't because your win or loss is determined by who has the most kills at the end of the match, not who has the most candy. It does not count.
I don't think it counts Diretide matches. At least it doesn't count toward my overall wins / losses in my profile, nor do they show up on my Dotabuff, anyway.
In-game store. Set is $10, cat ears specifically are $5.
http://www.dota2.com/store/itemdetails/20316
In-game store. Set is $10, cat ears specifically are $5.
http://www.dota2.com/store/itemdetails/20316
Yeah I misread it, oops.
Booty Patrol
Banned
Ursa and Bloodseeker are OP and no one is going to tell me otherwise.
Thanks I couldn't find it in game while browsing for heroes or sets.
shira
Member
Wat?
I can't believe that shitty furry drow set is considered "Rare" where as that sweet looking second disciple Bounty Hunter set is common. It's much better designed (keeping with Valve's strict art direction rules in their PDF), and looks more up-market than this PoS drow set.
Seriously props to the Gaffer here who made that set. I'm kinda happy it is cheaper for me to buy but it deserved a higher rarity stamp. Especially if that shitty Drow set can. Volvo gon bonkers.
Seriously props to the Gaffer here who made that set. I'm kinda happy it is cheaper for me to buy but it deserved a higher rarity stamp. Especially if that shitty Drow set can. Volvo gon bonkers.
Emerson
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The reddit reaction to that Drow set is fucking embarrassing. What a bunch of whiny crybabies. I wouldn't be surprised if much of it was phony outrage aimed at hopefully getting the set pulled and making money. Tough shit though because that will never happen the same way again. You're not a genius, everyone is thinking the same thing and there's probably already many, many times more Drow sets in circulation than there were Alpine Ursa sets.
Personally, I'd be far more embarrassed if such a fuckugly set was praised by the community, but I can see the logic in rolling your eyes at all the wannabee profiteers.
Emerson
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I'm certainly not saying it's a great set. The reaction is just wildly out of proportion.
Pureauthor
Member
Unfortunately it was (is) praised by the community. That's how it got added in the first place.
shira
Member
win-win imho, valve gets the resale points too
5stars and 2000 upvotes on the workshop is a joke.
Emerson
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Wasn't suggesting that it's impossible Valve pulls the set, was saying that if they did it will never be worth the kind of money Alpine Ursa is.
shira
Member
ah agree, win for me and valve then - that shit won't increase in #'s
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