On 28/10/2013 16:21, Nick F. wrote:
Will anything be done about the servers that spam ads? Does anyone look at
in game reports anymore?
Just block pinion.gg at your router or dns or whatever providers they use if
they've expanded beyond pinion.
Valve seem to think pinion are their partners so I doubt they'll do
anything.
Makes little sense in my opinion because if ctf_turbine can generate money
with stamps then I'm sure valve could find a better way of monetising
running a server
in exchange for giving players some worthless digital tat.
MvM tickets weren't a bad idea. Sell a multiplayer ticket and
if you win a round you get a sprogget, collect 20 sproggets and you get a
wedge. 10 wedges gives you a token. Craft 5 tokens into a statue part.
With all 3 statue parts collected you get a golden ticket to enter a
master server to
play for the main prize.
Win the round on the master server and you get a special 'TF2
multiplayer" trading card which can be sold on the market
for as much as 5 pence.
Now, valve simply share a portion of the 5p generated by selling the
trading card amongst the servers you played on to collect the
3000 items needed to create the golden ticket. They can use the £3000
for the tickets
to pay the community members who create the sproggets, wedges, tokens
and statue parts as well as
the winning trading cards and unusual hats.
Hats? Yep, one in a thousand golden tickets will win an unusual hat -
unique to this game mode.
In this case, because there's no 5p generated, Valve send the server
owners a picture of the winning user wearing the hat.
--
Dan
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