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Funding competitive prizepools through items
Created 23rd January 2014 @ 16:15
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reposting from my tf.tv post
I have really never thought of this until I received a newsletter from FaceIt
I know big teams in dota already have official workshop pages with team specific items to help fund their operations, this could really work for us with the right plan.
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It’s kind of a long shot but it could be a very sustainable way of funding competitive prizepools. It would need the right kind of people, (afaik there are a lot of item makers that play competitive) and the synergy between them and the leagues.
We don’t really have official support from valve but we could make our own self support with this.
And with TF2 making http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market $140 Million last year alone you get an idea how much a single item could help.
Just throwing the idea out there, but I’m up to help if anyone wants to do a more organized plan for this.
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Team specific items being things like a rocket launcher with an Epsilon logo on it, for example?
the tf2 comp community has to be more than enough to get votes for an item =)
but ye i offered this thing like 2 years ago :/
Very, very long shot – good idea, but how many of those has Valve refused to support?
Quoted from Spike Himself
Team specific items being things like a rocket launcher with an Epsilon logo on it, for example?
Afaik items submitted to workshop can’t contain any branding so they would have to be interesting items and shouldn’t have any logo or image directly associated with the league, but they could still contain the same color scheme like the weapon above.
Ex: http://steamcommunity.com/id/natus_vincere/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=570 Na’Vi dota2 workshop (some items were already added to dota 2)
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The problem I see with TF2 is that most teams dont last long enough as if it would made sense to create items with their logo/name/whatever on. By the time the items are created, voted upon, implemented in the game … the team might have folded already.
In Dota even if a team “folds” or gets dropped by their mgo, the mgo simply proceeds to pick up another team. So the items dont lose their value really. In the most recent seasons the only teams that lasted long enough would be Epsilon, TLR, TCM and infused, if you go even further back. Now the only one left is TLR.
TF2 teams are inherently unstable though – bar Epsilon, try to find a team name in Prem that has been there for longer than 2 seasons :p
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Thus why Im not advocating for team items but instead league items. An item supported and backed by a whole league.
Just like faceit (a league) is trying to do it
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In Dota even if a team “folds” or gets dropped by their mgo, the mgo simply proceeds to pick up another team. So the items dont lose their value really. In the most recent seasons the only teams that lasted long enough would be Epsilon, TLR, TCM and infused, if you go even further back. Now the only one left is TLR.
Does that necessarily mean they won’t pick up teams during this season?
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