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Heimdall – Aquarius Algiz (also called Elhaz) is a powerful rune, because it represents the divine might of the universe. The white elk was a symbol to the Norse of divine blessing and protection to those it graced with sight of itself. Algiz is the rune of higher vibrations, the divine plan and higher spiritual awareness. The energy of Algiz is what makes something feel sacred as opposed to mundane. It represents the worlds of Asgard (gods of the Aesir), Ljusalfheim (The Light Elves) and Vanaheim (gods of the Vanir), all connecting and sharing energies with our world, Midgard.
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Valve games have become more and more dependent on the Steam Workshop for introducing new content and fuelling play. That’s never more the case than in, which is as much about unlocking, buying and trading gun skins as it is familiar CT vs. So it’s interesting to see how Valve deal with copyright infringement within that community. After receiving a DMCA takedown notice about two items, the and a community sticker named Howling Dawn, those items have been swiftly removed from the store and action taken against its creators.
In a, Valve underlined the seriousness of the infringement, before listing the steps they’d taken to resolve the issue:. Both contributors have received Steam Community bans. They receive no proceeds from either item, and both items have been removed from the game. For owners of the M4A4 Howl and Howling Dawn sticker, those items have been replaced by an alternative designed by the CS:GO team. These items will never be produced again, and have been assigned the ‘Contraband’ rarity. All other in-game items that involve at least one of the contributors in their revenue share have been discontinued. The Huntsman Case and Community Sticker Capsule have been revised to replace the copied and discontinued items.
Moving forward, we will no longer work with the contributors and we will not ship any existing Workshop submission that credits their involvement. One of the perhaps less obvious difficulties in situations like this is that the infringing skin wasn’t exactly cheap: Howl cost $240 if bought ‘Factory New’.
That means that while Valve couldn’t continue selling the item, they couldn’t exactly just remove it from the marketplace either. Replacing that item with something wholly new, designed by the CS:GO team themselves and never released in any other form, is a smart solution. The rarity of that new skin will cause its price on the Steam marketplace to skyrocket, likely netting a profit for anyone who previously bought Howl and now wants to part with its replacement.
Aside from the punishments for the creators of the infringing work, the post stresses the community’s reliance on honestly and fairness from everyone involved. “To ensure that we don’t have issues in the future, we need your help. Please only contribute original work.
If you see any items that appear to violate the Workshop copyright policy, please direct the copyright owner to tell us via Valve’s DMCA takedown page. Together we can keep the Workshop a safe place for artists and their hard work.” I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, gambling. But hey, at least they were original works. Says: Just asking for alterations from the guys who made the skin would do nothing to discourage others from doing the same and lifting work for a “quick” profit. This response makes it pretty clear to all content producers that lifting others work and claiming it as their own will put any income they make from valve titles at risk.
It’s a pretty effective method of putting an end to it by all but the most idiotic and saves them the hassle of going back and forth requesting tweaks and changes to the artwork in question. Nu1mlock says: And don’t forget: The skin deteriorates if you use it, it gets scratches and whatnot and won’t be worth as much second-hand.
The “factory new” skins are worth the most while the different deteriorated skins will be worth less (more than one level of deterioration). This has always been the case with Valve-titles with cosmetics in them though. The same goes for hats in Team Fortress 2 and items in Dota 2. If you’re “good enough” you can make a nice profit out of buying/selling/trading those items but many people are just stupidly rich and purchase items that are extremely over priced only to stand out from the crowd. After all, you do get to see which weapon your killer used and who wouldn’t want to show off with their riches? Edit: I was apparently wrong in that the skins do not actually deteriorate over time but does instead sometimes come out scratched from crates.
Baines says: It’s kind of like the US comic book speculation market, back before that bubble burst (which in the long run did damage to the entire US comic book market). People are trying to make a profit buying and selling virtual objects that largely get their value from people buying and selling them in an attempt to make a profit. The big difference is that Valve has yet to really flood the skin/hat/etc market with product. Though Valve effectively tested gradual product flooding with Steam Trading Cards, so maybe they know to remain careful with their real money maker virtual items.
P.Funk says: When I was spending a serious amount of time about a year ago trading hats and items in the TF2 marketplace it was generally considered that only chumps spent serious bucks on the items and that most people obtained their items by trading up. It was trading items within the marketplace that netted you profits.
You had internal currency like Keys for the crates that acted like universal currency to be exchanged, with metal being the coins that broke the bill. With the marketplace of course you can spend money or sell them for money but if you do the deal right you can end up with hundreds of bucks in your steam wallet that got there purely by trading items in TF2.
I never spent a penny on any of my TF2 items but I have hundreds of them and turned a bunch of them into money I used to buy steam games. So, is CS:GO any different? Toxic avenger says: Valve, harmful to games? I hate to double post, but there’s no reasoning with you. A certain level of monetezation needs to be permitted, especially when its done in the most gamer friendly way possible. And for the whole “Steam is DRM” bullshit, you probably don’t think that publishers should have a right to defend their product against piracy whatsoever, which (if I guessed correctly) means you need to grow up if you think a reasonable amount of security of a publisher’s investment is abhorrent and a “bad thing” for all gamers.
The benefits far outweigh the negatives, here. P.Funk says: The hats themselves didn’t ruin TF2. The free to play model did because it ruined the community.
Even without hats being added it was the F2P access that gutted the average quality of play with random strangers. The hats themselves are the most benign form of F2P and most of the people who fawn over them My problem with the knee jerk peanut gallery is that they want to just call all microtransactions the same which means they’re not actually considering the finer nuances of any given system meaning they’re not thinking they’re just reacting.
Paying for map packs that divide the player base is a far more insidious model than playing a game for free and having 95% of all items in the marketplace available to any player as a random drop. P.Funk says: The benefit is the company that develops the game makes money and as a result continues ongoing development of the game in a manner that doesn’t require you to buy map packs and annual iterations to the tune of $50-60 in order to continue to play with the same playerbase.
Seriously, have you considered whats bad about this system? They found a way to give those morons who can’t hold onto their money a way to pay for everyone else’s fun without making those of us who never pay for $50 weapon skins any issues at all. Its not even like paying for the skin is totally exclusive. You can pick them up randomly too, and if its like TF2, trade for them. Whats the horrible crime against gameplay?
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The crime is against your sensibilities which are apparently angry at nothing of any material concern. P.Funk says: TF2 gameplay went to shit because of F2P, yea thats true. Nevertheless TF2 would be a dying game had they not done the F2P hat revolution and in the end I can live with the change in gameplay because the only crime is now I have to actually find a good server to play on instead of just playing on any random one.
There are a lot of great games I loved playing that I can’t play anymore because the playerbase moved on. TF2 won’t be one of them. I wish it was the fall of 2008 still but thats naive thinking. Its 2014 and TF2 is healthier than most games that are 8 years old. Take the good with the bad. TF2 might be a game that had a different development model before F2P but any games that come after you can’t claim would even exist if not for the monetary model they use on it.
CS:GO might never have existed and those who play the game are thankful for its existence I imagine. I will never hate on Valve for managing to do what Valve does best: take an evil in the world of gaming and make it into the lesser of most evils.
Without that Valve wouldn’t be doing as near as possible to AAA without being a monster like one of the big boys we all love to hate. Stellar Duck says: Yes, nickle and diming players is a tremendous benefit, as is completely fucking over any semblance of balance in TF2. Look, there may well be a good model for this stuff, but Valve has the borderline worst model, gambling crates and mandatory key purchases (no key drops for the patient) that I can imagine. At least fucking EA are honest about it when they do this stuff. But I guess they don’t have the Hammer Legion to trumpet a corporate agenda that is actively harmful against themselves. But I guess, in the end, it was alright.
Everything was alright. We love Valve.
Stellar Duck says: Well, I don’t agree, obviously.:) There sure is a lot of of stuff (an entire wiki worth of it) and it’s that fact that causes a lot of the problems. TF2, back in the day, was a great game. Every class was easily spotted and you knew the base line performance of each model on the field. What mattered was how people used them. These days you spot a demo and you have no fucking clue what he does.
Is he a night? Does he have the cannon? It changes the game to a guessing game where you’d better hope you’re not equipping the wrong counter to any of the seven bazillion nonsensical weapons. TinKelp says: Duck, do you have some kind of bug that prevents weapon models from showing up? Because you’re supposed to be able to see the weapon your opponents are currently wielding and items that provide passive buffs just by being in your loadout (The Targe, Gunslinger, Razorback, ect.) always show up regardless of the active weapon. And while some weapons do help against specific threats it is not a game of rock paper scissors.
A spy using the Spycicle can still die to a flamethrower. It just takes an extra two seconds. Puzzlepiece87 says: That’s not even how the marketplace works. You set the amount of money you want to receive and are told the amount of store fee that will be added on. If I understand correctly it is a% with a minimum of 2c US per transaction. You receive the entire amount of money you set if your item is bought at the money + fee total price level.
If someone has something they don’t want and someone is willing to pay 3c for it (1c + 2c store fee, as in the 3c example you cited), how are any worse off than before? It’s not even like Valve has the market cornered, you can go to tfbackpack or any of the other sites if you want. Frightlever says: Well yeah, you can. That’s how capitalism works. If your weapon skins are great, people will buy them and you’ll make a lot of money. I think some TF2 creators were making six figures. Second Life had a similarly robust economy for virtual dicks (despite stiff competition, even though the market’s gone soft after an initial sales spurt.
I’ll stop now). Now, personally, I think there are better ways to spend your game allowance, but I’m not going to say people shouldn’t spend that money however they please.