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Well, Valve has gone and done it: they’ve taken away all the beautiful hats<\/a> picked up while using an “external idling application.” Not only that, any other items obtained in the idle program have been removed and a warning issued to any future “cheaters” regarding their backpack stuff, while the good guys received a halo. Yes, \u00e0 la Haibane Renmei<\/a>.<\/p>\n But what else has come from all this? For one, a new hat drop rate, much improved over the previous time:<\/p>\n Let’s start with 2000 drops:<\/p>\n 2000 drops x 0.035714\u00a0hat chance = 71.428 hats<\/p>\n Breaking that down to one hat:<\/p>\n 2000 drops \/ 71.428 hats = 28 drops per hat<\/p>\n 28 drops per hat x (1 drop per 100 min) = 2,800 min<\/p>\n = 1 day 22 hours 40 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n For another, forums and forums of NERD RAGE!!! It’s thick, like that savory cap that forms on old pudding, feeding me and making me stronger. Think\u00a0Tetsuo<\/a>. Nom.<\/p>\n And lastly, an IDEA. This one comes from Domino, our newest (and third wow!) member. It’s rather simple but games, albeit MMOs, have been doing it forever. Players really, really want hats so… make them purchasable. At two bucks a pop, people are bound to buy them – hell, some would buy them all. And if, on average, one hat is bought per character, that would be eighteen bucks. That’s $18 for Valve towards the next game, or for their employees, or to change Left 4 Dead 2 into an expansion pack, which of course\u00a0would then be bought in droves. If people don’t want to spend the money, they don’t have to, there will still be the random drop factor. QQ problems solved, yay.<\/p>\n\n
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