Hello Unity,


In preparation for the tournament, the CS:GO Staff Team has planned scrimmages for teams to test their skills against one another on Unity's very own CS:GO server:

• Wednesday, May 13th: Team Zeus vs Orion Alpha (7pm CST)
  
• Thursday, May 14th: RIPajamas vs Dink Squad (7pm CST)
  
• Friday, May 15th: Teams Mixed (7pm CST)

The tournament will begin this Sunday, May 17th, with the two semifinal matches determining which teams will move on to the Finals, followed by the "Loser's Bracket" to determine 3rd and 4th place respectfully. These matches will be starting at 2:00 PM Central Time, and should be continuing until around 5:00 PM Central Time.

Sunday, May 17th: (Order as follows, best of 1 match)

• Dink Squad vs Orion Alpha (~2pm CST)
  
• RIPajamas vs Team Zeus (~3pm CST)
  
• Loser's Bracket (~4pm CST)

Then, on Sunday, May 24th, the two winners from the semifinals will play best 2 out of 3 in order to determine the Champion of Unity's First Spring CS:GO Tournament!

To mark this momentous occasion, the final match will be livestreamed by Captain Cats, who will no doubt provide us with spectacular shoutcasting!

May the best team win!


Grizz
Director of Games and Servers Department

We've done a small update to the Trouble in Terrorist Town server prepping for the big update that will be coming.

The next big update will include the new PointShop, additions to the Anti-Cheat, and some more cool stuff.

Check out this update's changelog to see all changes made to the server.

Changelog

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If you play on the Trouble in Terrorist Town server you need to follow the hyper-link below and post a screen-capture of your current pointshop's skins and gold! Otherwise you lose your stuff when we make the change.

New PS Screen-shots

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So I know that we've been talking about this for awhile now. And by this I mean bringing back the website. Well now is the time. I've purchased a year for our website, and I'm currently working on making us a brand new home.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas for the website? Please go ahead and post in our forums here on Steam!

The url for our website will be www.unitygaming.net

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Friends.Fun.Games.

Good Morning Unity!

I'm here to provide you with a little bit of an update on the state of things here at Unity Gaming. We've got some new announcements, and the community is doing better than it ever has. We want to thank you for the help and support you've been providing!

Now on to the update...

• We've hired four new moderators for our server. As listed below.
  • CreativeCartoonist
    
  • PhoenixQueen
    
  • Draymen
    
  • McGee
• We've hit 10 Unity Founders! The VIP rank of founder will now be removed. And you can no longer donate to founder. But don't worry! We're replacing VIP Founder with VIP Diamond. Diamond will be the same but you will not get the T-shirt nor the custom skin on the server.
  
• The map rotation has been changed. (Long overdue!)
  
• We are adding the new rank to the server of Unity Trusted. Have you applied for moderator but not made the requirements? Have you wanted to help out but don't exactly want the responsibilities of mod? Than this is for you! Check it out!
  • Info on Trusted
    
  • Details on how to apply will be on the next announcement.

Very soon we will be doing a major update to the pointshop on the Trouble in Terrorist Town server. When we do this update you will lose all of your skins and points. Please take a screenshot of your skins and points so we can refund you! Directions are posted below.

Pointshop Update

So it looks like because of all the crazy lashing back and that petition Steam has announced that they are removing the paid mods from the workshop. Thank god... We did it. Anyone who has purchased a mod will be refunded all of their money.

PC Gamer's Story

So what do you guys think? Do you think it was a good idea? Or do you think it was a terrible idea? Comment below.


"We've done this because it's clear we didn't understand exactly what we were doing," Kroll wrote. "We've been shipping many features over the years aimed at allowing community creators to receive a share of the rewards, and in the past, they've been received well. It's obvious now that this case is different.
"To help you understand why we thought this was a good idea, our main goals were to allow mod makers the opportunity to work on their mods full time if they wanted to, and to encourage developers to provide better support to their mod communities. We thought this would result in better mods for everyone, both free and paid. We wanted more great mods becoming great products, like Dota, Counter-strike, DayZ, and Killing Floor, and we wanted that to happen organically for any mod maker who wanted to take a shot at it."
Kroll said that while the feature has its merits, it was not wise introducing it into a community which had prospered without the model.
"We underestimated the differences between our previously successful revenue sharing models, and the addition of paid mods to Skyrim's workshop. We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here.
"Now that you've backed a dump truck of feedback onto our inboxes, we'll be chewing through that, but if you have any further thoughts let us know."

If you guys haven't heard yet. Valve has released a new service for their Steam Platform. That service provides a platform for people who create mods to sell them for money.

This is extremely disturbing to me as a person who loves games, and as an owner of servers that use Steam as a lifeline. Now let's take a look at this for a second.

In one respect this could be a good thing. Some mods are just as expansive as Add-Ons by Bethesda and Zeni-Max (Skyrim).

But on the other side of the coin... Mods have never had a platform to be sold on. And modders have rarely ever tried to sell their mods. These people create mods not for money but because of their love for games. It's the same reason I created these servers. Because I love video games.

So what is going to be the result of this? Old mods gaining a price? I wouldn't think so. People who don't really love video games moving in to make a buck? Yep...


So I am announcing that Unity Gaming will not support this platform by Steam. We will not purchase any mods on the workshop and we will not sell any mods on the workshop.

As always the only way that money comes in to play with Unity is by donations. Not by charging people for our content.

Also I personally have signed this petition to get rid of this platform and you guys should too.


The Petition[www.change.org]