It's $5 man not $50.

and thank you to Sal, eXtine, Lucky Luke and whoever else was involved for even making this happen its appreciated.

I love all of you guys so much lol

http://i.imgur.com/m6sujsV.png

yes, he has stated that he eats a bowl of -frags every day for breakfast.

The Hype

Man, ya'll mofos never gonna be happy :-)

I'm pretty stoked it's finally here. Definitely going to buy it, just to have a copy around. It'd be a cool thing to show your friends if they want to get into TF2 or eSports. Also a good way to support everyone who put a shit ton of effort into it.

How long will it be?
What types of payment?
What type of distribution? (download via vhx?)

Not that I have any issue with Luke charging a small cost for the full quality download, but June is correct that this was initially proposed as a "community contribution" and that Luke was volunteering his time to edit it. I'd rather you just straight up say Luke needs/wants some financial benefit for all his time instead of suggesting that you had implied there would be a cost at the start of the project. I will be buying a copy of this to support Luke however I do think June is entitled to complain about the cost which was not forewarned.

the greatest game on earth

The trailer looks fantastic. How could anybody watch that and think the download isn't worth $5? I'm honestly amazed that such a high quality version (1080p) is going to be offered for free, considering all the work that went into it.

Thanks to everybody involved with the project, don't let the self-entitled dorks stain your outstanding work.

IM CLICKING ON BUY NOW BUT NOTHINGS HAPPENING

I will pay 5 of your constantly aggressive money

so whos uploading a torrent

Why is 1080p for free not good enough though? Everyone is getting a high quality piece of art and history for absolutely nothing. Payment for a download is optional, and the kind of support that Luke deserves for a whole year of work for zero pay.

*throws credit card at screen*

Looking forward to it :)

Do contributors get a free copy of HD? :D

P.S. Maybe you could tell we had a heavy night before ;)

About 35 minutes. I believe VHX supports Paypal, Amazon and Credit card. Straight download yes, multiple qualities / filesizes. and YouTube. ;)

The VHX version isn't much different from YouTube. YouTube will also be 1080p, but then 25fps. We didn't shoot it on a RED camera or something. The main reason to buy it would be to support us! If you don't want to buy it but just watch on YouTube, that's cool too. I never considered it a paid job, I've pretty much done everything in my free time. Didn't even know we'd be able to sell it until a couple days ago.

38:38 was the runtime of one of the near-final versions I have.

dellort agreeing with me holy shit it's one of the four horsemen

keeps me balanced

Because this was never supposed to take a year, the fact that it did was a result of malaise and mismanagement, and that now the final product that apparently delayed the project an additional two months (which one would have assumed to have been the intended quality from the beginning because of how big i46 and the community push was for it) is now behind a paywall after all of this.

As for me being entitled, I have never really cared much about the documentary but find the farce of its production funny and the fact that there is now a price tag on the final product is really kind of a slap in the face to the community. Acting like it isn't is just being prissy.

holy shit 2sy_morphiend shut the fuck up no one gives a shit about your opinion any more

its gonna be free on youtube and you didn't have to do anything so stop your whining

Again, I have no issue with the payment option personally, I just think June is entitled to complain about it if he so chooses. It seems that it is easier to mark his posts as "flamebait" than it is to accept he has a valid point.

#168

Nobody funneled money into the project to get it done, nobody preordered a copy for a set release date. Luke just said it was done entirely in his free time. I don't know what's with the draconian judgement based around the delayed release, but it's probably not encouraging people to volunteer their time and skill.

And it's five fucking optional dollars. The Youtube version is still high quality. Like, honestly. Come on.

I'm not suggesting that I implied a cost at the outset. All I'm suggesting is that I never explicitly said anything one way or the other - mainly because we hadn't really decided anything of the sort at the outset. We're splitting hairs about this, though. I'm glad you'll be supporting Luke and eXtv!

#170 His posts aren't valid at all. He's putting words in eXtv members' mouths, and acting like he knows anything about how this production process was managed, especially in #168. Read that particular post and tell me with a straight face that's not flamebait.

We're glad for any support we get for the 50fps version. There aren't any bonus features, extra content, or anything else. It's just a higher framerate and the satisfaction of compensating the work that went into the project.

Nothing wrong with wanting to monetize it, but it probably would have been better to let everyone know that was the plan from the beginning or at least something that was being considered.

I'll probably just watch it on youtube myself.

How much of the source material is actually 50 fps?

If we'd known it was an option, we probably would have. Like Luke said, he didn't know we'd be able to charge for a 50fps version on VHX until like 2 days ago.

are people really complaining about 5 dollars

We all spent at least that much every day during the Steam sale.

Alright let me clarify because I forgot I'm dealing with people that are genuinely excitable about this game.

The massive delay on the release was constantly defended by people as "he's not getting paid for this"/"it's volunteer work" and honestly, I don't particularly give a shit about him charging money for the ultimate product here.

But in case you need a fucking dictionary ground up and snorted into your skull, "volunteer" is pretty much a position that is mutually exclusive with "getting paid for the fucking job." If eXtv had said, hey guys give us some cash so luke can focus on this project, I probably would have actually applauded them for admitting that they needed assistance on this and that one guy working in his free time on a project (that evidently had loftier and loftier aspirations set for it internally while the rest of the community basically just wanted anything) of this magnitude was laughable from minute one. The joke here is that it is now a purchasable product and apparently the defense for it from Sal (who I've personally come to find adorable how jumpy and defensive he gets when anyone questions this project) is that "we never confirmed/denied that it was actually volunteer work."

and apparently dellort's words even regardless of his defense of the validity of my claim confirm that I was not the only person that was under the impression that this was a volunteer job.

95% or so. Some stuff (interviews) don't have much motion though, meaning you won't notice everywhere.