Suggestion Forum would be Grrrrreeat!

[Jaden]

I would like there to be a "Suggestion" specific forum. A lot of the discussion here is about suggestions already, and it would filter a lot of the posts.

I'm not talking about changes or tweaks to existing in-game items, features, maps, etc. I would like a tab at the top, like "Discussions" and "Screenshots" that says "Suggestions" and is for actual NEW ideas.

For example: I want to buy my name. Not for other steam games, but for CS2. I want to pay a dollar amount, just like buying a skin, or renaming a skin, but I want it to lock in a unique name to my account. Steam support already said this wasn't possible, but it absolutely exists in other games, and it would be rad here, but for hella $$$$$$.

I'm not saying whether this is good, bad, possible or not. Imagine the "Discussion" forum as a place to put your wishlist items. However, not "The M4A1 should do,..." no.

NEW ideas.

Who knows, maybe it'll do some good someday. *wink* DLC ideas.

Since I got ganged on by a few in the recent past for making a pretty simple post about the 20 year coin, now I know the proper procedure. So, here goes.

Here's the BIO I actually used to use for CSGO for a while, unedited. If you want to dig, go for it. It doesn't change the content above. But, some of the haters, oooh do I wish I could rub your rotten faces in it. Buying my own frakking account, indeed. Anyway.

TLDR;

Lets have an actual "Suggestion" forum here.

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Profile here. Ok, fine.

Started playing CS in early 1999 before the betas were public. It quickly took over my own time playing Team Fortress Classic, and basically everybody else that was into TFC as well. CPL and OGL league ladders were fun, except the west coast was dominated absolutely by one clan, but I forget the name. They were the only ones that really won consistently.

Doing some research still to find out who that clan was. They were SoCal so I didn't run across them in normal play, just in ranked stuff, and on message boards that are long gone. They always had relatively low ping, much lower than the early DSL should have had, so I suspect it was a Frat with a T1 or something.

www.counter-strike.net Oh the glory days.

I co-led [$iK] for a couple years and we had a blast. When we played locally, the cheating accusations were out all the time. Of course, some of us were - everybody was, just like everybody is now.

Red/Green model hacks I helped create - I skinned the red and green models, but not the "spiked" ones. I never liked that approach. I didn't want to really cheat, just have a much higher contrast model, because at the time, the CTs were all suuuuuper dark.

Beta 4.0 - Burst fire. All of the sudden, we had to burst fire, especially with the 552 and M4 (might have been 4.1 or 4.2, forget)

Beta 5.2 - The pinnacle of competitive CS. P90 was insane rushing, AWP was perfect while moving, M4 and AK you could get 3 or 4 kills with one mag. My fav though, P228. It's kind of like what the five seven is now, except zero recoil. Same 1 shot HS close/medium range.

Beta 6 - suck. When the new netcode started getting introduced, and everybody that had payed out for DSL and cable at the time, started getting owned by 300+ ping players. Also, the maps got HUGE. I did kinda like VIP maps, except for how huge they were.

Then Counter-Strike 1.0. Yeah, full blown netcode, drove away so many regulars. Shooting somebody and watching the bullet holes show up directly behind them without any damage, that will kill the game. Also around the same time other FPS games were taking off - Quake, Descent, Unreal Tournament, as well as EQ and WoW were very well established.

I played it early, a LOT, near pro level at the time, if such a thing existed. I won real world money in a local tournament once (200 bucks or so from Frys). 40-50 hours a week at least, sometimes 15-20 straight. I very mildly dabbled in the other CS versions, but nothing to solidly speak of, except I played each one a bit. Even bought the boxed retail versions. I was loyal, if never really got back into it. I was partly annoyed that CS basically became Valve. Goose and Cliffe stopped developing it, and the little CS.net forums were consumed by Valve.

2018, I decide to give myself a gaming rig as a Christmas Present, mostly because I'd been equipping my son with new stuff for a few years to play Fortnite and was kinda jelly. :) For the record, he was ranking high and won a few of the discord invite games, just before turning 13, which is when he could have officially entered to win some money. Then they made another stupid patch change and basically he lost all interest - Epic was very good at that around the time, turning off all of the streamers and pro's because "reasons".

Assembled the computer and jumped right into CSGO early 2019. The kid did, too. I still have an old clip of a pistol round where he gets 5 headshots, a couple were jumping. Insane what kids can do.

Sometime in late 2019 I think, I opened a crate. And got a red. A red m4. Sold it for $140. That was such a terrible moment, because it basically kicked off CSGO skins for me. All of the sudden my Steam wallet was fat, and what to do with it?

Anyway - I started collecting skins, and had spreadsheets about them. I knew exactly which I had, at what quality, when purchased, for how much, etc. When COVID hit, skins turned into a new hobby. I wanted to collect them all, but used them all. I didn't really want to collect the $1000+ stuff, but I had a few in the multiple hundreds. I focused on the ones I thought looked good, to me, not what the market said was valuable.

At my peak I had almost 8k in skins, which was making me nervous. I started to worry about getting hacked, even with a unique email and password, and authenticator. It kept me up at night.

So, sold it - I think I got about 5k back out. Yes, I basically dumped them, but when I decided to do it, I didn't want to draw down slowly, I wanted out. I kept a few that I still use.

I don't comp, spent a lot of time in it, never liked it. So many reasons why the comp system is aweful, but mainly: if you solo queue, you get kicked. I'd get kicked at the end of the match when top scoring. It didn't matter. ♥♥♥♥ comp. Also, doing casual, it's hilarious to interact with the comp regulars who wander in and are so dense as to be confused about team speaking, and buying kits, and friendly fire. Right. Like you didn't know how casual works, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Sure. They're also frequently idiots that can't actually aim, but love "it's just cas" or "cas sucks" - must be one or the other. I have no love for comp players who try and either bring it to cas, or then complain about casual. Eat. A. ♥♥♥♥, and go away.

So, I've now been profiled. BEHOLD, for it is good, and so are dumplings, especially korean bulgogi's from costco…


REMOVED

Doing some research still to find out who that clan was. They were SoCal so I didn't run across them in normal play, just in ranked stuff, and on message boards that are long gone. They always had relatively low ping, much lower than the early DSL should have had, so I suspect it was a Frat with a T1 or something.

When we played locally, the cheating accusations were out all the time. Of course, some of us were - everybody was, just like everybody is now.

Red/Green model hacks I helped create - I skinned the red and green models, but not the "spiked" ones. I never liked that approach. I didn't want to really cheat, just have a much higher contrast model, because at the time, the CTs were all suuuuuper dark.

I don't comp, spent a lot of time in it, never liked it. So many reasons why the comp system is aweful, but mainly: if you solo queue, you get kicked. I'd get kicked at the end of the match when top scoring. It didn't matter. ♥♥♥♥ comp. Also, doing casual, it's hilarious to interact with the comp regulars who wander in and are so dense as to be confused about team speaking, and buying kits, and friendly fire. Right. Like you didn't know how casual works, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Sure. They're also frequently idiots that can't actually aim, but love "it's just cas" or "cas sucks" - must be one or the other. I have no love for comp players who try and either bring it to cas, or then complain about casual. Eat. A. ♥♥♥♥, and go away.

[Jaden]

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[󠁳Chiyoko]

Originally posted by Jaden:

TLDR;

Lets have an actual "Suggestion" forum here.

There is no point to do that.
Most of interesting ideas were suggested many times during years, and other 99% ideas are a BS. Also Valve barely read these forums, if you want a chance developers actually see your suggestion you better to use reddit.

[Jaden]

Originally posted by Wine Vampire:

Originally posted by Jaden:

TLDR;

Lets have an actual "Suggestion" forum here.

There is no point to do that.
Most of interesting ideas were suggested many times during years, and other 99% ideas are a BS. Also Valve barely read these forums, if you want a chance developers actually see your suggestion you better to use reddit.

Well, they still don't have the suggestion forum, so I believe it would be a step in the right direction.

Thanks for the Reddit recommendation, didn't know they bothered. I'll pester them there, too. :)

Valve should have one employee, lets call him Batman. Batman's one job is monitoring suggestions, filtering, and taking good ideas to management. A big stretch would be to even reply to users about their ideas.

Other games welcome input and suggestions.

We don't have a Batman, but should.

[vee]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

[Kilt]

Better moderation would be nice.

[Jaden]

Originally posted by vee:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

Thank you vee, but that looks like just generic "Steam" suggestions?

It's difficult to tell they're website is left in the 90s, I swear. Ugh.

[way]

nice

[UNKNOWN]

Originally posted by Kilt:

Better moderation would be nice.

Why? Moderation is perfect

[SilentStorm]

Originally posted by Jaden:

I would like there to be a "Suggestion" specific forum. A lot of the discussion here is about suggestions already, and it would filter a lot of the posts.

I'm not talking about changes or tweaks to existing in-game items, features, maps, etc. I would like a tab at the top, like "Discussions" and "Screenshots" that says "Suggestions" and is for actual NEW ideas.

For example: I want to buy my name. Not for other steam games, but for CS2. I want to pay a dollar amount, just like buying a skin, or renaming a skin, but I want it to lock in a unique name to my account. Steam support already said this wasn't possible, but it absolutely exists in other games, and it would be rad here, but for hella $$$$$$.

I'm not saying whether this is good, bad, possible or not. Imagine the "Discussion" forum as a place to put your wishlist items. However, not "The M4A1 should do,..." no.

NEW ideas.

Who knows, maybe it'll do some good someday. *wink* DLC ideas.

Since I got ganged on by a few in the recent past for making a pretty simple post about the 20 year coin, now I know the proper procedure. So, here goes.

Here's the BIO I actually used to use for CSGO for a while, unedited. If you want to dig, go for it. It doesn't change the content above. But, some of the haters, oooh do I wish I could rub your rotten faces in it. Buying my own frakking account, indeed. Anyway.

TLDR;

Lets have an actual "Suggestion" forum here.

***********************************

Profile here. Ok, fine.

Started playing CS in early 1999 before the betas were public. It quickly took over my own time playing Team Fortress Classic, and basically everybody else that was into TFC as well. CPL and OGL league ladders were fun, except the west coast was dominated absolutely by one clan, but I forget the name. They were the only ones that really won consistently.

Doing some research still to find out who that clan was. They were SoCal so I didn't run across them in normal play, just in ranked stuff, and on message boards that are long gone. They always had relatively low ping, much lower than the early DSL should have had, so I suspect it was a Frat with a T1 or something.

www.counter-strike.net Oh the glory days.

I co-led [$iK] for a couple years and we had a blast. When we played locally, the cheating accusations were out all the time. Of course, some of us were - everybody was, just like everybody is now.

Red/Green model hacks I helped create - I skinned the red and green models, but not the "spiked" ones. I never liked that approach. I didn't want to really cheat, just have a much higher contrast model, because at the time, the CTs were all suuuuuper dark.

Beta 4.0 - Burst fire. All of the sudden, we had to burst fire, especially with the 552 and M4 (might have been 4.1 or 4.2, forget)

Beta 5.2 - The pinnacle of competitive CS. P90 was insane rushing, AWP was perfect while moving, M4 and AK you could get 3 or 4 kills with one mag. My fav though, P228. It's kind of like what the five seven is now, except zero recoil. Same 1 shot HS close/medium range.

Beta 6 - suck. When the new netcode started getting introduced, and everybody that had payed out for DSL and cable at the time, started getting owned by 300+ ping players. Also, the maps got HUGE. I did kinda like VIP maps, except for how huge they were.

Then Counter-Strike 1.0. Yeah, full blown netcode, drove away so many regulars. Shooting somebody and watching the bullet holes show up directly behind them without any damage, that will kill the game. Also around the same time other FPS games were taking off - Quake, Descent, Unreal Tournament, as well as EQ and WoW were very well established.

I played it early, a LOT, near pro level at the time, if such a thing existed. I won real world money in a local tournament once (200 bucks or so from Frys). 40-50 hours a week at least, sometimes 15-20 straight. I very mildly dabbled in the other CS versions, but nothing to solidly speak of, except I played each one a bit. Even bought the boxed retail versions. I was loyal, if never really got back into it. I was partly annoyed that CS basically became Valve. Goose and Cliffe stopped developing it, and the little CS.net forums were consumed by Valve.

2018, I decide to give myself a gaming rig as a Christmas Present, mostly because I'd been equipping my son with new stuff for a few years to play Fortnite and was kinda jelly. :) For the record, he was ranking high and won a few of the discord invite games, just before turning 13, which is when he could have officially entered to win some money. Then they made another stupid patch change and basically he lost all interest - Epic was very good at that around the time, turning off all of the streamers and pro's because "reasons".

Assembled the computer and jumped right into CSGO early 2019. The kid did, too. I still have an old clip of a pistol round where he gets 5 headshots, a couple were jumping. Insane what kids can do.

Sometime in late 2019 I think, I opened a crate. And got a red. A red m4. Sold it for $140. That was such a terrible moment, because it basically kicked off CSGO skins for me. All of the sudden my Steam wallet was fat, and what to do with it?

Anyway - I started collecting skins, and had spreadsheets about them. I knew exactly which I had, at what quality, when purchased, for how much, etc. When COVID hit, skins turned into a new hobby. I wanted to collect them all, but used them all. I didn't really want to collect the $1000+ stuff, but I had a few in the multiple hundreds. I focused on the ones I thought looked good, to me, not what the market said was valuable.

At my peak I had almost 8k in skins, which was making me nervous. I started to worry about getting hacked, even with a unique email and password, and authenticator. It kept me up at night.

So, sold it - I think I got about 5k back out. Yes, I basically dumped them, but when I decided to do it, I didn't want to draw down slowly, I wanted out. I kept a few that I still use.

I don't comp, spent a lot of time in it, never liked it. So many reasons why the comp system is aweful, but mainly: if you solo queue, you get kicked. I'd get kicked at the end of the match when top scoring. It didn't matter. ♥♥♥♥ comp. Also, doing casual, it's hilarious to interact with the comp regulars who wander in and are so dense as to be confused about team speaking, and buying kits, and friendly fire. Right. Like you didn't know how casual works, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Sure. They're also frequently idiots that can't actually aim, but love "it's just cas" or "cas sucks" - must be one or the other. I have no love for comp players who try and either bring it to cas, or then complain about casual. Eat. A. ♥♥♥♥, and go away.

So, I've now been profiled. BEHOLD, for it is good, and so are dumplings, especially korean bulgogi's from costco…


REMOVED

Doing some research still to find out who that clan was. They were SoCal so I didn't run across them in normal play, just in ranked stuff, and on message boards that are long gone. They always had relatively low ping, much lower than the early DSL should have had, so I suspect it was a Frat with a T1 or something.

When we played locally, the cheating accusations were out all the time. Of course, some of us were - everybody was, just like everybody is now.

Red/Green model hacks I helped create - I skinned the red and green models, but not the "spiked" ones. I never liked that approach. I didn't want to really cheat, just have a much higher contrast model, because at the time, the CTs were all suuuuuper dark.

I don't comp, spent a lot of time in it, never liked it. So many reasons why the comp system is aweful, but mainly: if you solo queue, you get kicked. I'd get kicked at the end of the match when top scoring. It didn't matter. ♥♥♥♥ comp. Also, doing casual, it's hilarious to interact with the comp regulars who wander in and are so dense as to be confused about team speaking, and buying kits, and friendly fire. Right. Like you didn't know how casual works, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Sure. They're also frequently idiots that can't actually aim, but love "it's just cas" or "cas sucks" - must be one or the other. I have no love for comp players who try and either bring it to cas, or then complain about casual. Eat. A. ♥♥♥♥, and go away.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I remember $iK. Core memory unlocked. I used to play with you guys on your pub servers I think. I really enjoyed it because it was a lot of fun and challenging to play with that crew. Those were good times man.

[Jaden]

Hi Silent :) gonna have to lead the question a little, but do you remember f8 or Ganja (I know, hardy har on the name, but back then...)