You're preaching to the choir on that. But remember, it took them literal years, as a billion dollar company, to roll out a sub-par anticheat update that finally made their casual gamemode playable again after the bots. If it took them years to fix that - which certainly has a bigger impact on newer players than 3rd party leagues - I have little hope that they will put in the work to keep up with all the medals we hand out.

Honestly, it was a ton of work for Eric, since he was doing the validation manually. I am not sure how the other leagues do it, but he could easily front-load the work onto the league when they submit their requests in a way that he wants (current item ID, new name, etc) and just have a script to validate the data he gets from the leagues. That would be pretty trivial, honestly. I know that it is a lot of work for him right now, and considering they can barely log in a few times a year to add cosmetics and maps (not made by valve employees), I am not surprised they are doing this. They still rake in millions a year off of the store and cosmetics - they make 0 money off of the community medals. I truly hope they change their mind on this, because it fucks over the small tournaments and cups entirely, and certainly makes it harder for the leagues to attract new players.

be a pedophile

https://www.ugcleague.com/team_page.cfm?clan_id=27953

Just throwing in my 2 cents - UGC only lasted that long because RGL presented a viable alternative at the time (among other factors). If there is no viable alternative to RGL, it doesn't matter how well or how poorly the league is run. Yes admin detachment did cause players to leave UGC, but they left UGC to RGL. RGL has a monopoly on NA TF2, so people can bitch and moan all they want, but unless there is an alternative, you end up back at square one.

dawg this is a for-fun video game league, not a court. The RGL ban committee aren't sitting there on the phone with saul goodman to make sure the ban is airtight. Ain't nobody give a fuck, you're almost 30, time to move on.

I'm listening....

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I honestly have not even bothered to comment on anything you have said regarding UGC medals before, because I know nobody on this forum really cares about UGC anymore. But untamed is right - medals are important. They are a physical (well virtual) representation of skill and achievement, they are cool, and something that players have come to accept for almost a decade for any league worth their salt.

Could I come up with any number of excuses? Yes, I could. I could blame it on the fact that Valve takes half a year sometimes to respond to my emails. I could blame it on the fact that the system that UGC has was built from scratch in the early 2000s and is held together with hope and prayers. I could blame it on the fact that the only person who knows how they interact with that system has been fighting for their life over the past few years. I could blame it on my incompetence for not knowing enough about web development and coding/API programs more broadly. I could blame it on the fact that we are all volunteer staff for a league that's on life support and that these tools and programs were created years before any of us started volunteering.

I'm just as disappointed as everyone else that medals are not out yet and that the public perception of UGC is worse than when I started in 2018. I want my medals too. But please, stop wasting Valve's time by emailing them - and confusing them further about our league. The final thing I will say on this matter is that we are working on getting medals out. All of the staff we have currently are dedicated to this. We inherited a fucked system that was developed when I was still in high school and that none of us had direct access to until extremely recently. I'm sorry it has taken this long, but airing out dirty laundry on the forums will not speed the process up.

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See y'all in 3 months when he gets banned for failure to submit demos (4th offense)

As someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife, death does scare me. I hope that the older I get the more I can reconcile with that, but I suppose once you die it's all irrelevant since you can't feel scared or sad - it's the fear leading up to death that causes our anxiety. Am I sad that I probably won't see my grandchildren marry or have their own kids? Yeah, I am, but not everyone has the luck to live a long and healthy life. Every now and then I will reorient my life and think about if I died tomorrow, would I be happy with who I am and what I've done? Living this way has made me happier and reconcile with death in a much less fearful way.

https://www.teamfortress.tv/63984/yes-im-safe#

honestly surprised the thread has not been deleted

shit posting aside this is just a stupid premise. Are there like 3 different circle jerks that are all permabanned that make it their life goal to ruin the experience for everyone else? Yes. But there are maybe 35 people total that fall into that category. The literal hundreds, if not thousands, of other players, are normal people looking to have some fun and are usually pretty chill. Whether it's a new player asking how to set up a team or someone who's been around forever, almost all of my interactions with other players are overwhelmingly positive.

Perhaps you see the community more negatively because you compulsively hyperfocus on cheeto and his crew to the point where you thought they hired a hitman to go kill you. I promise you if you can accept that there will always be a certain tiny portion of the community who are only in it to ruin the experience for others, I assure you that you will see how good the community is considering this is a 17-year-old game. Hell, you think this is bad? Trying playing overwatch, valorant, csgo.

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