Thursday, September 29, 2016

The steam community market: is it broken, is this economy screwed?

The steam community market has a problem: worth is measured in supply and demand. and rices skyrocket or plummet because of competition. 
Nobody actually gets what the item is worth unless they go to a trading site where nobody will buy it anyways (spoken from experiences). And i'm not even referring just to knives and unusuals. In trade servers, barely anyone trades anymore on TRADE servers due to the steam guard authenticator rise. and it's becoming harder and harder to get what an item is worth outside of the economy.

So, is the steam community TF and Csgo market and economy Screwed?
In my opinion (what you spent your time to look at) YES.

Why?
My first point: Mann Versus Machine is not in any way worth the money plus time you spend unless you get a good Aussie. Botkillers take time to get, more than a set of "Two Cities" loot. Operation Gear Grinder is expert difficulty, which means it takes LOTS of skill to finish. Yet, a Carbonado Botkiller weapon can go for as little as 30 cents. Ten percent of what it cost to get (3 tour of duty tickets).  Austrailiums require less skill, but more percerverence, about as much as it takes to unbox 300 crates hoping for an unusual/knife. Yet they are worth a lot more (except for the Smg and the Axestinguisher).

Second point: Skins, ranked cosmetics, and craft hats low pricing.
Skins are worth very little based on quality, wear, special terms (festivised, statclocks, killstreaks.) The Higher ranked skins look better, so to make them hard to get they are even rarer. Then they make unusual effects even rarer.  Craft hats, no matter how good looking, aren't worth much in trading and can't be sold on the market.

Skins worth is much similar in Csgo, except instead of unusual effects, there's knives.
Knives are really rare, but much like Aussies, it has to do with what knife, what wear and what skin. These factors can severely bring down the value of a knife.  
Purple skins are barely worth more than blue skins outside of knives. On the market, stickers aren't worth anything on a weapon, same with $2 name tags. Which means your skin could be really unique with it's stickers, but only worth $0.22.



Monday, September 26, 2016

Why do I dislike Flair, Nislt, and Delfy?
Yes, now comes my whole confession.

These youtubers are rather annoying in my opinion.
Delfy and flair are exploit uploaders who (at least with flair) rely on voice synthesizers instead of editing over it with a microphone because they barely speak English. They show you how to ruin the gameplay experience of other players.

Nislt also will not show his voice.
Nislt Takes other people's files because they're too lazy to try to post those themselves, adds voicelines, a cramped/clickbait title (I.E. "how to travelthroughtimeusingtheshortcircuit#95{EPICFAILINGWIN/GIBUS}FUN)
And slaps an even more cramped thumbnail on it.
Nislt's thought process for the thumbnail
"Let's put a cringy sfm face in front of a bunch of colored boxes. Then, let's add the title in a big font. Afterwards, put something random like an explosion with lightning and a stop sign"
I really like more simple thumbnails, Take Vanossgaming's or Muselk's. A simple sfm will get my attention.
Although i like M3rkmus1k, I don't like his thumbnails. His thumbnails usually consist of his face, a word like WHY?!, and an action scene. That is still in my opinion (what you know you're reading) clickbait-y.

And the expoits, OH THE EXPLOITS!
Unless the exploit HELPS in Mann Vs Machine, I just avoid the exploits in general. These people are like
"This is fun! make everyone else have a horrible time!" The exploits, which mostly have been fixed NOT THANKS TO DELFY, should only be used on friendly servers or private servers NOT PUBS.

The exloits are supposedly "fixed" after delfy uploads a video which promotes every 8 yr old to use the glitch (and they do). When in reality that's just not the case. Valve's TF team is so out of touch with the community that they're not competent to notice the bug because of delfy. What delfy does is make everyone hate the game until an accomplished bug finder with the Finder's Fee or someone who notices the bug and fixes it because delfy's video made it worse reports to Valve.

That's all i can think of right now.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

SIGSEGV AND VALVE HAVE DONE IT AGAIN! :D

So recently Valve became VERY active and updated their major games
CSGO finally got a new Beta section so that valve doesn't break the game without anyone knowing prior (like the wild west R8)

And TF2 got a much needed breath of air.
Valve fixed a basic exploit about MvM which we wish was the start of something great.
But this next bit is where Sigsegv comes in. First off he fixed a glitch which Valve predicted that, unless they had a full source engine overhaul they would not be able to fix it. BUT THE QUANTUM CROUCH EXPLOIT IS FIXED! THANKS TO SIGSEGV! This of course will deal damage to the exploit video uploaders (Nislt, Delfy, Flair, etc.) and fix up this game.

One more thing that will help to make an exploit-free game is the fact that Valve also fixed the "building out of bounds" exploit. However this has made some trouble (as Uncle Dane has shown on his 2nd channel). Players now cannot build in some favored LEGAL spots like the outside of RED spawn platform on PL_Upward. This hopefully will get fixed and we will be closer to a near-perfect TF2

Before you go however i need to address something. I've seen my writings and it kinda looks like i'm hating on Delfy, Nislt, and now Flair. I don't plan to bash these guys in MOST of my posts but I do not like these Youtubers. I will explain my lack of respect for them soon enough but remember.
This is America, where people can speak freely, the internet even more so. You can hate on me (and be a fanboy like with matpat's fanboys roasting raja) and right now i don't care if you do so but you do not need to defend someone you don't know at all aside from his voice and maybe his face.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Something needs to be brought to the TF2 community's attention.
A user by the name of SigSegv brought to VALVe's attention a possibly GAME-BREAKING glitch/exploit utilizing the Short Circuit a couple weeks ago. This exploit caused the players and server to lag for a millisecond. However, this would cause players to rubber band horribly allowing players to, what's the word, clip inside enemy players. This would actually allow the player who lagged into the enemy to bypass the enemy spawn protection, and get inside the spawn. Sigsegv provided all the information worthy of a Finders Fee and gave it to VALVe. But VALVe, being incompetent let two updates go by w/o fixing it.

Then the Bad stuff happened. Famous Youtuber Delfy uploaded a video openly promoting this exploit. Which in turn caused the community of Gibus-wearing fanboys to exploit this over and over in Casual mode which was making the game NOT FUN TO PLAY. Sigsegv wrote to VALVe again saying "Hey, you need to fix this!" VALVe finally fixed it after Insomnia 58 or I58, the previous community competetive streamed event. Once this was fixed, Delfy took all the credit, having done nothing to let VALVe know or trying to fix it (much like how he never contacted mapmaker UEAKCrash about the exploits in his maps like PL_Borneo). And Delfy's fanboys defended him even when several people spoke the truth.

My favorite comment on someone who Spoke the truth about Sigsgev
Was by a user with a "Meet the amazing sniper" profile pic (i will leave the name anonymous)
Who said "You should really kill yourself cause your lying" (yes he spelled you're wrong)

Please give Sigsegv and the other bug fixers some respect and don't believe every FAMOUS youtuber.