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Team Fortress 2 'Contribute' Initiative Brings User Made Weapons, Items and More into Game
by Chris Faylor, Jan 14, 2010 9:25am PSTHaving already embraced community contributions by adding select user-made maps to Team Fortress 2 PC across various updates, developer Valve has taken things a step further by allowing fans to submit custom items and see them appear in-game.
"Weapons, hats, avatars -- designed by you, used by the entire TF2 community," explains Valve.
"Pending approval, your item will get added to your backpack, and cycled into the random item drops in-game. Blow up stuff using a weapon you created! Kill an enemy, then let him know he died in a hat you designed!"
Alongside a submission form and the technical requirements for said items, the official "Contribute!" site packs item creation tips plus word that "Community-created avatars and items will eventually be displayed in an online image gallery."
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They're still doing TF2 updates after all these years even though really they've probably sold as many copies as they can to people who would buy it full price.
And anyone who doesn't want to buy it at full price can buy it on one of the billion or so weekends it's on sale - including one day where it was $2.49 or so. But those can't really be pulling in that much money.
This guy's theory was - however many copies they sell these days, those are just more people who have Steam installed. And ultimately getting as many people to run Steam as humanly possible is their goal.
So the reason TF2 still gets updates is both because Valve is an awesome company, and also because they're trying to get Steam on every PC out there. Which in itself is good for PC gaming.
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My stats from last 2 weeks are 50 hours played TF2 and about 5 for l4dead2. Im sure they can see the community is very much thriving still from all these stats so they continue to pour resorces into it. There was a lean time whilst they were doing l4dead2 but now devs are free to carry on adding stuff to this fantastic game! Simpy put i always return to / carry on playing this game!
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From the actual site:
Game Balance
"Wait," you might be thinking, "won't this ruin the balance of the game with tons of overpowered weapon designs?" Nope. The contribute feature is exclusively for model design. The TF2 team will take your submitted content and incorporate it into the gameplay in a way that makes the most sense for TF2. (You can submit gameplay ideas for new items, just like you've always been able to, by emailing us or posting them on the TF2 forums.) Whatever the end use turns out to be, rest assured we'll give credit where it's due to the item's creators, and give you a unique version to show off in-game.
The engineer WILL have his moment in the sun, to be claimed "omfg overpowered!!!!!" at least for a while.
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