{"id":11756,"date":"2011-05-15T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"troll-gamers-should-pay-more-for-steam-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/11756-troll-gamers-should-pay-more-for-steam-games","title":{"rendered":"Troll gamers should pay more for Steam games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.develop-online.net\/features\/1192\/Gabe-Newell-on-Valve\" target=\"_blank\">Develop <\/a>recently, Valve&#8217;s Gabe Newell said &nbsp;&#8220;The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That&#8217;s actually a bug, and it&#8217;s something that we want to solve through our philosophy of how we create entertainment products.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where different individuals paid a different price for the same game. Of course this just screams &#8220;prejudice&#8221;, but what if the qualifying terms where something that most right minded gamers could get behind?<\/p>\n<p>Newell postulates a system whereby positive and friendly members of the global gaming community pay less for a game, while those with a history of troll-like tendencies would pay more. &#8220;So, in practice, a really likable person in our community should get DotA 2 for free, because of past behavior in Team Fortress 2,&#8221; said Newell. &#8220;Now, a real jerk that annoys everyone, they can still play, but a game is full price and they have to pay an extra hundred dollars if they want voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the cost of a particular game displayed to you in your Steam profile was somehow dependent on a reputation system. It might make abusive players think twice before sounding off on a hostile tirade, however, there are additional implications concerned. Would you like to game in a world where everything you did affected your score in some sort of overarching popularity contest?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13418-Gabe-Newell-Trolls-should-pay-more-for-games?p=419362#post419362\" target=\"_self\">Share your thoughts<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#039;s what Gabe Newell believes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}