Don't be too hard on yourself. I'd like to point that if you aim to
please Valve, you aren't on the right track. What you should do is try
to please the players and server admins that might play or run your map.
Doing the best you can, spreading information about it and responding to
feedback is the best thing you can do. Then if users and admins like
your map, they will run it, play it and Valve might pick it up for
operation.
However, what comes to workshop submissions, it's mere luck if your map
get s a lot of views or not as in users attention. First week is
critical. If your map hits spot 1 on most popular this week, the folks
will see it on Steam on the CSGO page when they go and start the game,
if they use the game details view. That brings a lot of views and
subscriptions and ratings.
For example, the first map i submitted to CSGO workshop got over 14000
views, 550 ratings in the first week and it got to that spot. The second
map that i submitted about 2 weeks ago (which i think is even better
than the one before), never got that attention and views got left under
1800 views and 128 ratings right now. This is actually a bad flaw in
workshop, as it favors mostly luck and what gets released at the same
time as your map does.
But seriously speaking, don't aim to please Valve. That will never work.
Just do the best you can and you might get lucky.
Valve could arrange a map contest, for new maps only. Give time like 6
months to produce work. It would bring up attention nicely and equally
to everyone.
-ics
Michael Mayea kirjoitti:
It's not bad at all, but the lack of information is inconvenient. What
is the deadline? Will new maps be in the next Operation? Will they
look for demolition maps or defuse maps or hostage maps? How do you
even know if your map is good enough, some people have over 50k
subscribers and don't hear a peep from Valve.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andy Posey
<witsalldonebe...@gmail.com <mailto:witsalldonebe...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Well that sounds like they are going to be doing OP's for
different things. Which isn't bad.
On Feb 21, 2014 1:29 AM, "Michael Mayea" <mikema...@gmail.com
<mailto:mikema...@gmail.com>> wrote:
No new maps were added to the Operation, nobody had a chance.
Valve can sort the workshop items according to popularity,
they don't have to search through every item.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Andy Posey
<witsalldonebe...@gmail.com
<mailto:witsalldonebe...@gmail.com>> wrote:
What? You need to gather community interest. You can't
expect Valve to search through each and every workshop
item. Also, what do you mean you didn't have a chance?
On Feb 21, 2014 12:58 AM, "Michael Mayea"
<mikema...@gmail.com <mailto:mikema...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Valve I believe you should have communicated your
intent to redistribute the maps for the next Operation
more clearly. I was under the impression opportunity
was present when it wasn't, and I worked tremendously
hard at a chance to get my map into the next Operation
when there was never really a chance to begin with.
Do you know what it is like to try and serve Valve? It
feels like a pipe dream, like I'm shooting for
something that is so improbable I contemplate
sometimes if I truly am a rational being. I spent
weeks cramming for something that had no clear
deadline and wasn't even a real opportunity, at the
end of it all I just feel duped. Not only did my map
not make it into the Operation, there was never a
chance it was going to happen, and Valve didn't even
leave a comment on the workshop page. Over 8 months of
hard work that did nothing but fall on deaf ears.
I've spent thousands of hours the past 11 years
teaching people how to use your software, how to make
maps, how to solve problems. I do it for free, I do it
because I believe map making is an art form of its own
and I want to help it grow, and I do it because I love
it.
It would have made my day even if you told me my map
wasn't any good.
Sincerely,
Michael "zastels" Mayea.
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