Esty as Dota 2 Courier

[Blutsense]

Hello guys,

it's me again with another idea for making our work remarkable.
(Well it's not my sole idea)

What is going on?

With Esty being back in action and even before that, some of us (including me) may had the idea of seeing Esty as a Courier in Dota 2.

Why do we need another reward, when we just talked about Emoticons/Backgrounds

I do thought about the same, but I just said to myself: "F**k it, why not?!"

I am more into Team Fortress 2 or CS:GO. Why not do something for those games?

I can't really answer that question without showing my fanboyism towards Dota 2 (I have TF2 and CSGO).

What does Torsten say?

When I asked him he told me that he is okay with the idea and interested to see what we come up with.

How are "we" gonna do this?

The first thing that came to my mind after Esty's return was: "Let's get a professional on this" So I contacted Thiago Vidotto (some of you may know him for making Couriers for Beyond the Summit or Cyborgmatt[www.cyborgmatt.com])

So today, he answered me with more or less good news.
But one thing is for sure: He is not doing it for free.

Thiago's ideas

• Make it purchaseable on the Store
  
• Special version for STS-Members (non-tradeable and all that stuff)

Other Options

• Someone in the STS community creates a worthy Esty courier
  
• Get Valve's designer onto this
  
• Pay Thiago in a way he could accept so no one else except the STS members get it
  
• Leave it

Requirements to earn one, if Esty gets in

I would say, we do it the same way the backgrounds and emoticons should be earned (when they are ready for release).
Through the core system. At a specific level (example: level 12) you get the special version of Esty.



That is all I wanted to/was able to tell you for now.
Now it is up to you. Tell me/us your opinion about this.

with friendly regards,
Blutsense

(Gr4mm4r nd Spll1ng Nazis can keep the mistakes )

[Dororo]

As a fan of Thiago's work this is amazing, he's truly one of the most talented people on the workshop!

[Sparrow]

Ask Thiago about the price.

[Caja]

Hi, a little update on this.

I have contacted Mr. Scrake, a spanish steam translator AND Dota 2 artist, and he is interested on this. He would create the courier along with another guy (they are concept artist & model artist, respectively). Still, they would not do it for free as "it is far too much job to do it for free".

So there's that.

[Sparrow]

Originally posted by Jack the Timetraveller:

Hi, a little update on this.

I have contacted Mr. Scrake, a spanish steam translator AND Dota 2 artist, and he is interested on this. He would create the courier along with another guy (they are concept artist & model artist, respectively). Still, they would not do it for free as "it is far too much job to do it for free".

So there's that.

Still we have 2 options: ask Valve employee to make it or find an independent artist who will do it for free. Collection of money is a very complicated thing, especially on the global scale.

[Dororo]

I could definitely back the idea with a couple of bucks or more, but it's a bit risky since we don't even know if it will make it into the game. If it was guaranteed to get shipped I would gladly help fund it. :/

[dogs]

Well, I've been gathering some reference images to try and make a model myself (to be honest, it would be really good if I could get some closer pictures of Esty itself from whoever has it at the moment). I can't really promise anything as I've never managed to complete a model (the closet I've come to was a Slark dagger and an Earth Spirit staff -- here are images of them in case you want to see how they look: http://puu.sh/7uekM.png -- never finished the dagger because I disliked how it didn't seem to feel like a real effective weapon if you imagine one like that in your hand and the staff I just couldn't get the textures right so I took a break from it, but after seeing an actually very similar staff on the workshop I just decided to stop making it. Also as you can see some models are not the exact same as the concept. I just try to adapt them for the best and remove unnecessary stuff.)

Anyway, I also don't have any experience with animations which is mandatory, but like I said, I will try doing it.

I'll try to keep posting here in case I make any significant progress on it.

[Berna]

One thing I thought about, but it's JUST A THOUGHT: I remember lately people throwing ideas about having a "Translation Case" for CS:GO, where a share of key sales would go to STS. So, since there's there's the option of having Esty as a purchasable courier, wouldn't this idea be of use? (Also, if Esty is to be exclusive, Cyborgmatt will post about it on his Content Analysis and we'll have an applicantcalypse in our hands...)

[Blutsense]

Originally posted by Berna:

(Also, if Esty is to be exclusive, Cyborgmatt will post about it on his Content Analysis and we'll have an applicantcalypse in our hands...)

Well this one was going to be prevented by the core group system, means no one under a certain level (example: lvl 12 were everyone gets his own translator badge) can get Esty.

[Berna]

Originally posted by Blutsense:

Originally posted by Berna:

(Also, if Esty is to be exclusive, Cyborgmatt will post about it on his Content Analysis and we'll have an applicantcalypse in our hands...)

Well this one was going to be prevented by the core group system, means no one under a certain level (example: lvl 12 were everyone gets his own translator badge) can get Esty.

It's not like applicants will care... (Sure, the pending applicants limit will prevent a true applicantcalypse like Kotaku 2011, but still, we'll probably get a high number of bogus texts)

[Doc]

Actually what I suggested was to add a sticker or a skin to the next Valve series crate, and then a share of the key sales would go to the STS... but it would work on a community crate, as well.

But a whole 'Translation Case' would be overkill, specially if it included, as someone else suggested, country flags. Not saying it would be bad, it would be too good.

[Berna]

Hmm... I remember some ideas about flag stickers as well, so I probably gobbled it all up into a "Translation Case" when thinking back :P Anyway, it was just a thought and probably it's better to put us back on track and see who will make the courier and how for now - sorry for the diversion.

[sappy]

Originally posted by Dr. Costa:

Actually what I suggested was to add a sticker or a skin to the next Valve series crate, and then a share of the key sales would go to the STS... but it would work on a community crate, as well.

But a whole 'Translation Case' would be overkill, specially if it included, as someone else suggested, country flags. Not saying it would be bad, it would be too good.

It's neat idea to have something like that.. Something minor that could be done, unlike the Etsy idea, sorry I don't really support that.