I feel unique. My account was disabled over a trading debacle. - Games

Where in Texas are you going?

El Paso

El Paso is boring unless you like casinos... Although, last time I was there, there was a family owned breakfast restaurant that was amazingly good.

I'm not going there for leisure.

[QUOTE=Xolo;25499964]I hope so. Minecraft doesn't have as much replayability as I thought ;([/QUOTE] Heresy.

[QUOTE=Nzdjh;25500497]Heresy.[/QUOTE] Well, it's not bad, it's just not good. At the moment, it's not really "survival" as it is marketed, but rather "creative where being creative is more difficult because skelatons will shoot you". You can't have a fun time surviving against the monsters since it's so easy to do that (build a small house with a door), so you have only exploring and building big stuff to slake your desire for fun. As for the former of the two, it gets old. I didn't pay fifteen dollars to look at prettily placed blocks - and as for the latter, it's not particularly [i]good[/i] at building things. Buildings are only impressive because it took a lot of effort to build them, and not really a tremendous amount of skill. Sort of like how a painting of a bowl of fruit would be way more impressive if it was painted with a strand of hair and nailpolish. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

Thinking on it now, anyone remember the bullshit statistic they made up to try and save face on the halocaust, like, "Only 4%!!"

Well, I can see how it'd get boring in singleplayer, yeah. But Minecraft is pretty much meant to be played with a couple bros online so you can make some crazy shit. Ninja'd.

[QUOTE=Sift;25500833]Thinking on it now, anyone remember the bullshit statistic they made up to try and save face on the halocaust, like, "Only 4%!!"[/QUOTE] Also "VAC is failsafe and you will never be banned if you don't cheat" etc I know that was an issue with steam, apparently, but if VAC banned an innocent person at all regardless of the reason it isn't fail safe.

[QUOTE=Nzdjh;25500855]Well, I can see how it'd get boring in singleplayer, yeah. But Minecraft is pretty much meant to be played with a couple bros online so you can make some crazy shit.[/QUOTE] Which falls to his point: [QUOTE=Xolo;25500623]Buildings are only impressive because it took a lot of effort to build them, and not really a tremendous amount of skill.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=superdinoman;25498679]Not when you own the whole "market" and have all the tools in place to execute your authority over users.[/QUOTE]Oh man, I [i]totally[/i] imagined your rainbow-stache-Stalin saying that.

Nothing on the ticket this morning. Going to depart from this place in about 40 minutes to hopefully finish the drive to El Paso. 800 miles to go, 600 down.

We need a Steamgroup or something. [editline]19th October 2010[/editline] Wait, I'm late

[QUOTE=OatmealMan;25463305]It's shit like this that makes me want vanilla/pre MANN-Co. TF2 back. After the update, everythings about shit trades, Parasite here, Nappers there, "LOL BAD TRADE" is the most common pgrase in trade windows, and chats in all servers are spammed with trade requests. If all that wasn't bad enough, [b]shit like this[/b] hapens.[/QUOTE] TF2 has been getting worse over the years for me. I remember back to the days of 2008 where I was a dirty, console playing peasant, ignorant of Steam, lurking in the foul waters of Halo and Gears of War. Because of my aforementioned upbringing, I never really got into FPS games. Then one day a faithful friend told me of a magical gift from the gods known as Portal. Since I did not have a Steam account at that time, I looked up Portal and found it to be part of "The Orange Box", released for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I then saved up all my pennies and purchased myself the game for my 360, I was astounded to see that not only did The Orange Box contain Portal, but 4 other games as well. I ignored the others for the time being and started up Portal. It was truly a work of art, but after I had finished it and treated myself to "Still Alive", my curiosity led me to try out the other games. I started Half Life next, but after abut 3 hours, I lost interest. Then my eyes wandered over to the last game on the list. I loaded it up, and was greeted by what looked like an obese cartoon man with a minigun mowing down a league of equally stylized rocket-launcher wielding Soldiers. I joined a quick game when I came to the menu, as the strange loading screen had piqued my curiosity. I remember finding a game of Dustbowl and choosing the Spy class, as I've always had a fondness for stealth games, and his class name as well as his playstyle description intrigued me. I remember first gazing in wonder at the outlandish and strange environment, completely different to any other shooter I had seen before. I had only ever been exposed to Halo and Call of Duty games, so I assumed that FPS games were all serious, gritty and brown, opposed to silly and exaggerated visual style, but here was Team Fortress 2, defiant to the seriousness of all the other shooter games. The fast-paced, enjoyable gameplay and quirky in-game humor was enough to keep me enjoying TF2 more than any other game of the genre, and since then, it has always been one of, if not the best FPS in the history of gaming. Between then and now, I was introduced to the Steam version of the game, and that was my very first exposure to Steam. My computer, at the time, to put it charitably, was a piece of shit, and because of that, even though I had it installed, I didn't properly start playing TF2 PC until the Sniper VS Spy update launched, because it was then I afforded another, more competent computer. Again, it seemed like a new world, all these custom maps and new weapons, my usual Spy playstyle had to be completely changed in order to adapt to this new, unfamiliar gameplay. But after I became used to gaming on a computer, all was well and TF2 was greater than ever. I think it was when the Golden Wrenches were announced that my TF2 experience started to die. At first I was excited, but as more and more wrenches were found and when it was revealed that there was a drop timer that some people were exploiting, my enthusiasm died. My Orange Box disc for Xbox had became so worn with time and age that it was unreadable, and unplayable, so I was stuck with TF2 PC. I don't know, ever since the Golden Wrenches, TF2 hasn't been the amazing experience it used to be for me. With 24/7 2fort and "Orange" map games going on all the time, I couldn't help but miss when all I had to do was pick "Join a Server" and be treated a small amount of quality maps rather than have to wade through idle and achievement servers just to find the good ones. But I was still having a lot more fun than any other game provided me with. Until the Mann-conomy update. Since then, every time I join a server, it's more about trading offers than actually gameplay, always about who had the best hats rather than the highest skill. I mean, on TF2 Xbox, there were no hats, and there were no server plugins or admin abuse or shit like that. Now, it's rare that I see a server without at least 5 people with hats, or without at least 3 people spamming the chat with trading offers. The point I'm trying laboriously to get to is that Trading and Hats made TF2 STOP BEING FUN. And when I hear shit like "I got banned because some guy decided to be a dick and report me.", I just think back to my first time playing TF2 Xbox and how simple it used to be. P.S. Hope you get your account back. tl;dr Hats and shit made TF2 not fun.

That was a good read.

The inclusion of a tl;dr made me willing to read the unparagraphed wall of text, and you have a good writing style. However I doubt xolo will ever get his account back sadly enough, nor get a decent reply telling him why from steam/valve. Has anything changed in valve management the past year? Seems like some new asshole must be in a high up position or something as of late. A guy similar to kotick or however you spell that with kinect nonsense. ("pc gaming is dead lol" guy) .

I remember 2 days after trading was implemented, everyone was trading and not playing. That would lead to some strange scenarios where there only be 10/24 players were actually doing anything which lead to some short games. Now most of the people that spent their time trading ingame are now in trading post servers and people like me can now enjoy the game with everyone else playing too. TF2 is always full of bad players every time a major update is released. Its just a matter of time before those players get bored and go back to whatever they played beforehand. Its not that TF2 is getting worse, its the community it self. Trading and idling has given people who would otherwise not be playing, reason to play. Once they get bored, the community will get better and the game will get better. The game is only as good as its community.

[QUOTE=HyperTH;25506864]TF2 has been getting worse over the years for me. I remember back to the days of 2008 where I was a dirty, console playing peasant, ignorant of Steam, lurking in the foul waters of Halo and Gears of War. Because of my aforementioned upbringing, I never really got into FPS games. Then one day a faithful friend told me of a magical gift from the gods known as Portal. Since I did not have a Steam account at that time, I looked up Portal and found it to be part of "The Orange Box", released for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I then saved up all my pennies and purchased myself the game for my 360, I was astounded to see that not only did The Orange Box contain Portal, but 4 other games as well. I ignored the others for the time being and started up Portal. It was truly a work of art, but after I had finished it and treated myself to "Still Alive", my curiosity led me to try out the other games. I started Half Life next, but after abut 3 hours, I lost interest. Then my eyes wandered over to the last game on the list. I loaded it up, and was greeted by what looked like an obese cartoon man with a minigun mowing down a league of equally stylized rocket-launcher wielding Soldiers. I joined a quick game when I came to the menu, as the strange loading screen had piqued my curiosity. I remember finding a game of Dustbowl and choosing the Spy class, as I've always had a fondness for stealth games, and his class name as well as his playstyle description intrigued me. I remember first gazing in wonder at the outlandish and strange environment, completely different to any other shooter I had seen before. I had only ever been exposed to Halo and Call of Duty games, so I assumed that FPS games were all serious, gritty and brown, opposed to silly and exaggerated visual style, but here was Team Fortress 2, defiant to the seriousness of all the other shooter games. The fast-paced, enjoyable gameplay and quirky in-game humor was enough to keep me enjoying TF2 more than any other game of the genre, and since then, it has always been one of, if not the best FPS in the history of gaming. Between then and now, I was introduced to the Steam version of the game, and that was my very first exposure to Steam. My computer, at the time, to put it charitably, was a piece of shit, and because of that, even though I had it installed, I didn't properly start playing TF2 PC until the Sniper VS Spy update launched, because it was then I afforded another, more competent computer. Again, it seemed like a new world, all these custom maps and new weapons, my usual Spy playstyle had to be completely changed in order to adapt to this new, unfamiliar gameplay. But after I became used to gaming on a computer, all was well and TF2 was greater than ever. I think it was when the Golden Wrenches were announced that my TF2 experience started to die. At first I was excited, but as more and more wrenches were found and when it was revealed that there was a drop timer that some people were exploiting, my enthusiasm died. My Orange Box disc for Xbox had became so worn with time and age that it was unreadable, and unplayable, so I was stuck with TF2 PC. I don't know, ever since the Golden Wrenches, TF2 hasn't been the amazing experience it used to be for me. With 24/7 2fort and "Orange" map games going on all the time, I couldn't help but miss when all I had to do was pick "Join a Server" and be treated a small amount of quality maps rather than have to wade through idle and achievement servers just to find the good ones. But I was still having a lot more fun than any other game provided me with. Until the Mann-conomy update. Since then, every time I join a server, it's more about trading offers than actually gameplay, always about who had the best hats rather than the highest skill. I mean, on TF2 Xbox, there were no hats, and there were no server plugins or admin abuse or shit like that. Now, it's rare that I see a server without at least 5 people with hats, or without at least 3 people spamming the chat with trading offers. The point I'm trying laboriously to get to is that Trading and Hats made TF2 STOP BEING FUN. And when I hear shit like "I got banned because some guy decided to be a dick and report me.", I just think back to my first time playing TF2 Xbox and how simple it used to be. P.S. Hope you get your account back. tl;dr Hats and shit made TF2 not fun.[/QUOTE] Couldn't have said it better myself, I really feel that my experience with the game has been degrading over the last couple of months. Hell, I wish I could go back to the glorious Goldrush update days, where people actually PLAYED the game.

HyperTH, you summed it up all perfectly. I really lost all my trust in VALVe...

[QUOTE=supertoaster;25461192]So being reported for scamming gets you a worse punishment than hacking and getting VACd? This is like the salem witch trials[/QUOTE] [img]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/292/4/d/ten_points_if_you_understand_t_by_muffinbuster-d313wcy.png[/img] Now I feel pretty stupid. I don't blame you if you don't get what I hamfistedly tried to quip.

I disagree with everyone who said hats ruined tf2. For the most part, it was trading.

[QUOTE=Heroes;25520687]I disagree with everyone who said hats ruined tf2. For the most part, it was trading.[/QUOTE] No, hats and random drops ruined it as well, because then people started caring more about getting items or standing around in a server hoping to get a hat instead of PLAYING THE FUCKING GAME. A hat that does absolutely nothing and you can't see at all. Then trading came and now people have moved on from idling, so they join servers spamming chat about how their trading some stupid item. Then the next week they go back to idling because their item cap reset only to repeat the trade spam again. As for actual trading, it's goes something like this: "Give me your useless hat for my useless hat" or "trading my useless hat for a non-crap useless hat". What defines an "non-crap" hat? Oh, right, personal opinion. Then Valve decided they wanted to punish scammers by disabling their Steam account and not allow them access to the games they've purchased, which leads to abuse by massive faggots like the one on the previous page. I don't see why people take hats and/or vintage items so seriously... Hats are fucking useless and do nothing for you and vintage items are just blue in the backpack and function the same as their non-vintage counterparts.

Having something someone else doesn't have that's "rare" (even if everyone has them now) makes you feel good, and valve knows it. It's whatever, some of them are cute or funny, and I don't mind that they exist. People taking them so seriously are stupid though.

Over a FUCKING IN GAME ITEM? What the fucking christ valve. It's not like he murdered the guys dog!.. You didn't kill his dog... Did you?

No he killed his pixels in a game.

I am in El Paso. There are many windmills and oil refineries in Texas. The internet here is shitty. My ticket is unanswered, and Robin never answered my Email. [editline]20th October 2010[/editline] god damn it

[QUOTE=Xolo;25523220]I am in El Paso. There are many windmills and oil refineries in Texas. The internet here is shitty. My ticket is unanswered, and Robin never answered my Email. [editline]20th October 2010[/editline] god damn it[/QUOTE] Shits gonna go down if this isn't sorted soon.

It would suck if they simply ignored my ticket

If they do, I'll be sending my own two letters, one to Robin, and one to Support, telling them to remove the game from my list. I already uninstalled over this crap out of bad feelings, and it looks like I was right.

[QUOTE=Jakerino;25466700]the kid with the fez is a fag[/QUOTE] Rated disagree because a cigarette wouldn't be able to use a computer. :colbert: