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Quoted from RaCio

Micro-transactions and hats have not much to do with a good community or a quality game.
As long as there is attention for the core quality of the game there shouldn’t be a problem. But seeing weird things like stat hats (literally haven’t found anyone who liked the idea of tying stats to hats) and disabling accounts of several players for no reason it seems that is not the case anymore.

Agreed, but I’m saying neither of those issues are really related to this. Disabling accounts is bad admining on steam’s part, and the stat hats are just a silly idea. I just mean the idea that someone made something, it got picked up by the game devs, the devs make money, the item makers get money, and the community gets a new item. Everybody wins.

But ye, just saw Rafe’s post and I tend to agree with him.

Quoted from Rafe

Feel sorry for the mapmakers that put way more effort in and made something far more substantial but only got 3.5k

I definitely agree with this sentiment.

Though I’d like to think that a full, officialized map would be more impressive for a resume than saying an item set you modeled was one of five winning entries in a contest.

Shit why did I study something as useless as electrical engineering, should have learned how to make hats instead…