https://gamepolitics.com/2011/05/16/valve-considers-putting-real-world-value-players
Gabe calls the current pricing system a bug and wants a pay system based on how well you play with others. Will it work? Discuss
So basicly if this will get live, it’ll be worth it to be an active valve fanatic?
Well I guess this is just a way to prevent trolling and people who don’t play by the rules. I don’t see it as putting value on players, I just see it as punishing those who make the gaming experience bad for others. It would make players afraid of each other (as I guess players would have to rate each other, otherwise how would the system know who is “good” and who is “bad”?). It would be like eBay, where you want to be as good as you can be in hope for positive feedback, which is good I guess.
Ive been playing networked games since doom and have encountered too many people who sucked as team players, or who wanted to shitcock the whole game. I can see this being a good idea as long as it is implemented fairly.
This is a terrible idea and needs to go away.
This actually makes perfect sense & is well worth a try, but would be quite difficult to implement.
I just don’t see how this can work, aside from people who are obviously cheating. People who make others quit on them and/or get bad ratings might just be whipping the other players who give them negative feedback. People who leave partway through a match might have lost their internet connection, rather than rage quitting.
How do you also make sure you’re tying the purchase to any one person? And what if you get home from buying a game in the shops and have to pay an extra £5 (or $10 etc)? That won’t encourage piracy at all…
I can see why this idea came up, but i don’t think it will work well… I think it will create bad relations between the players, and will lead to things like cheating or blackmailing a player to raise your stats… I think that this idea will do bad to the community more then it will do good.
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Perform memetic engineering on L4D2 during production.
Fans are more than satisfied.
Make statements about how important you think your fans are.
Say that fans are so important that they can get involved into TF2.
Slowly outsource update production to the community.
Random guy from France now spends his spare time on making virtual hats.
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This could not possibly be real.
Yeah. There are times where griefers and mic spam has actually made a game BETTER and the people that tell them to shut up just ruin all the fun.
You’re oversimplifying.
I´m in same opinion…this just won´t work…not for too long
The article (including the original on The Escapist) is kind of ass-backwards and cherry picking what Newell said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMI0BxB0yA for the original interview. (42 minutes!)
Well if this isn’t a joke of some kind, it’ll never work. Sometimes players leave simply because they’re getting their asses kicked, and there’s no reason to play down your game just to be popular. Plus, some groups of gamers are going to run together no matter what, and they’ll be popular by default. If this ain’t bullshit, then it’s definitely bullshit!
gabe was giving a speech at a marketing class, obviously he was just trying to sound badass to give them ideas
I think I’m with TheRatMan here. Games where a popularity/fame-system have gone down the drain pretty quick when people would sell their “rating” to the highest bidder for ingame money, or whatever. Suddenly it isn’t about who’s nice or popular at all, but who can get and spend most money on boosting their popularity.
I can see what they’re trying to do, but I’m afraid it won’t work out the way they want to. People will use and abuse this system the best they can.
If they manage to make it feel like a normal part of the steam experience, whilist minimizing the appearence of assholes, then im all for it.
If it involves popups, or it gets its abused then it’ll prolly get flamed to death.
Sounds like Gabe is trolling.
This idea is kind of silly; annoying people keep video games interesting.
And claiming that someone is “bad” is an opinion, and it WILL get taken advantage of.
Annoying internet people also hold the fondest of memories in my video game heart.
I’ll never remember why I started playing DoD:S 3 years ago, but I will definitely remember the guy who tk’d the whole team till everyone left – it was hilarious. But I digress…