So basically, you either get skins from the game's system, or you can suck a dick.....nice...
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;49630922]So basically, you either get skins from the game's system, or you can suck a dick.....nice...[/QUOTE]
Yup, if you want skins they want your money first.
Isn't this pretty much like banning sprays? What the hell?
Changing the clientside skin is just for personal preference, if you want the egoic satisfaction of other people seeing too, you buy the skin as intended. Why, or more importantly [I]how[/I] would you ban this???
[QUOTE=saintsim;49631208]Isn't this pretty much like banning sprays? What the hell?
Changing the clientside skin is just for personal preference, if you want the egoic satisfaction of other people seeing too, you buy the skin as intended. Why, or more importantly [I]how[/I] would you ban this???[/QUOTE]
checking skin hash's and comparing it to a serverside whitelist
I really can't understand why this is necessary on community servers, but my guess is it's "copyright" for the skin creators (and Valve).
Well, there goes my plans of making custom CS:GO skins for [B]client-side[/B] use.
[QUOTE=CryoDragon;49631609]Well, there goes my plans of making custom CS:GO skins for [B]client-side[/B] use.[/QUOTE]
They can't ban a model swap or a texture swap client side. They can only ban servers that swap around your models/textures while on this specific server.
Even though the decision seems like it's mostly greed oriented and honestly the least of Valve's worries, there is some logic to it. Some servers are making these skins donation only (usually expensive knife skins and such), meaning they're technically "pirating" a product they didn't pay for, and then reselling it to their own customer-base while bypassing the legitimate creator (both valve and whoever made the skin if it's community-made). It makes sense that a company would want to crack down on what's essentially smuggling of their product on their own platform, and there's such a large amount of servers out there that hitting only the servers that monetize these cosmetics would take forever.
Then again, I still think this is a fucking stupid thing to take care of and the fact Valve is prioritizing fixing some minor issue with microtransactions instead of literally anything else (like, say, the fucking horrendous customer support we've had to deal with for ten years) shows well enough that they don't care about the consumer base anymore and I hate them for that.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49631638]They can't ban a model swap or a texture swap client side. They can only ban servers that swap around your models/textures while on this specific server.
Even though the decision seems like it's mostly greed oriented and honestly the least of Valve's worries, there is some logic to it. Some servers are making these skins donation only (usually expensive knife skins and such), meaning they're technically "pirating" a product they didn't pay for, and then reselling it to their own customer-base while bypassing the legitimate creator (both valve and whoever made the skin if it's community-made). It makes sense that a company would want to crack down on what's essentially smuggling of their product on their own platform, and there's such a large amount of servers out there that hitting only the servers that monetize these cosmetics would take forever.
Then again, I still think this is a fucking stupid thing to take care of and the fact Valve is prioritizing fixing some minor issue with microtransactions instead of literally anything else (like, say, the fucking horrendous customer support we've had to deal with for ten years) shows well enough that they don't care about the consumer base anymore and I hate them for that.[/QUOTE]
Huh, can't they just use the ancient server command sv_pure 1?
Isn't that what this is?
[QUOTE=Karmah;49631671]Huh, can't they just use the ancient server command sv_pure 1?
Isn't that what this is?[/QUOTE]
My guess is that sv_pure 1 can be bypassed through some fuckery and valve wants to send a message.
Also, by doing it that way, they allow anyone who gets their account banned to buy the game on a new account, bringing more money home for valve.
Yeah but it is just banned from servers, the players themselves aren't banned.
Looks like they reversed the decision on purely custom models/skins that don't come from the base game.
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