'TF2: Invasion Update! (Livestream)'

01:33:17 Dec 18, 2023 
'Invasion Thoughts  The short and simple version: It\'s the best community update we\'ve had. Why? Well look at what we got with the past two, End of the Line and Boogaloo.  Boogaloo being the first completely community created update was all hat reskins. Now, this again, was Valve\'s first shot at doing so, so they needed somewhere to start. Needless to say while we got a few cool robotized hats out of it, there wasn\'t much substance at all and was definitely the most lack luster.  End of the Line ties in heavily with my opinion on Invasion due to the almost EXACT SAME reaction the community and players have given it. Let me just state this, Invasion is NOT an EXACT EOTL 2.0.  \"But Skymin, we didn\'t get new weapons, just reskins!\" So back in the hype of End of the Line, we were told/heard rumors that we\'d be getting 3 new weapons and a map in this update. Naturally, this hyped people up for what was suppose to be. However, and this is the thing that pissed me off the most, Valve at the last minute decided to pull the map (Snowplow) from the update and save the weapons for their own update (Love & War). Valve screwed over the EotL team and it seems they mostly learned about not doing that anymore, or at least keeping things under closer wraps.  \"But Skymin, we have to pay to participate!\"  No, you don\'t. The ticket is only so you can get a chance for the update crates to drop, something that is OPTIONAL and NOT mandatory. You can still play on the maps without having to spend money! The thing is, the ticket goes to support the team who went into creating this update. Do I agree with putting the crates behind a paywall even further? No, in fact I think it screws both players and creators over, because players won\'t necessarily want to pay for both a ticket or a chance to drop and a key. The creators get screwed over, because that means people won\'t be paying as much as they may normally and won\'t get a decent revenue back, from what little they already are getting.  \"But Skymin, there\'s so little cosmetics and they suck!\" Wow...this is the dirst time I\'ve heard this one...the thing is, due to the drama around the cut everyone would be getting, some people pulled out and took the cosmetics with them. That and Valve just wasn\'t accepting as many as the 128 items submitted for this update. Seriously though, I can\'t believe people are complaining about so few cosmetics. Yeah they aren\'t the best, but usually people complain that there\'s TOO MANY. There\'s no pleasing people...  \"But Skymin, this update has so little content to it!\" This. Is. A. Community. Update. Everything you see in this package was all created by people who took times out of their lives to create something for a game they loved. They were not employed by Valve, although they do get a cut for what they\'ve done. Invasion was NOT these people\'s jobs, so of course community updates will NOT be as big and fleshed out as ones created by Valve. And little content? I think people are seriously forgetting that it\'s a community update by comparing it to something like Love & War. Compare this to the other community updates we\'ve gotten. Boogaloo was strickly cosmetic reskins, EotL had a Bonus Duck gimmick, some awesome cosmetics, a fantastic SFM, which a lot of people forgot that\'s what even sparked this update, and a melee reskin. What does Invasion have? 4 \"NEW\" maps, including one with a different skin on robot destruction, effectively making it a new gamemode, a damn good SFM short, some new cosmetics and 4 weapon reskins that in all honesty look pretty damn good. Invasion is the BEST community update we\'ve gotten content wise.  Now there\'s two things both these updates suffer from, which was caused by the community: hype. Both updates we\'re hyped to hell, which is a huge reason as to why people are saying Invasion is EotL all over again. THIS IS THE COMMUNITIES FAULT! Look, I love the TF2 community, but we do NOT know to slow the hype train down. You think we would have learned from the unfortunate disaster EotL turned out to be, but most people didn\'t learn.  There\'s something I\'ve been seeing people say that is incredibly disrespectful to the team that created this update and they all fall under the same boat, but are presented in different ways, \"screw the creators of this update, this is a failure.\"  Again, I\'m going to restate that THIS ISN\'T THESE PEOPLE\'S JOBS. Yes they do get some money out of it, but considering the amount of percent Valve takes, it\'s kind of pitiful. Besides, the creators have to go through Valve approval for what they want put in.  I\'m running out of room to type, so my opinion, this was better than Eotl.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  When I don\'t feel like recording, I come here! I\'ll be playing a variety of games, not just ones I\'m known for like TF2.  If you have a question, just ask away! I\'ll be looking at the chat while playing.'
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