Hey All, this is tomnovint, Novint's CEO.
With the official release of Falcon support in Left 4 Dead (Novint put a lot of effort integrating Falcon support into L4D specifically), we wanted to have another community event - another contest - this time with both the Left 4 Dead community and the Team Fortress 2 community. Left 4 Dead has been one of our most anticipated games to support the Falcon, and has easily been one of our beta testers favorites. Team Fortress 2 is a blast with the Falcon. I've been playing a lot recently myself.
We had quickly thrown together a contest a month ago for Team Fortress 2, in which we gave away a bunch of Falcons, and there was a lot of interest. It was a lot of fun. I've gotten many emails and PM's since then asking about when we would do another contest, but we were waiting for the L4D release.
This time, we're going to take a little more time, and make it a little more formal. We're also going to be giving away a lot more free Falcons for this contest, so it's going to be a bigger event this time around!!
The point of this post is to get feedback on the contest, and listen to what people think about how we should do it.
You can find more information about the Falcon here (including a video):
https://home.novint.com/store/promote2.php
There's a two week special going on given the Left 4 Dead release, which you might check out in the link. You can get a Falcon bundle (including pistol grip and software) for as low as $139 ($174 plus a 20% discount if you use a referral code, which you can find if you search - if you find one, ask the person about the Falcon. It's a great way to get info). This is definitely one of the best Falcon deals we've done yet this year for the Steam community, so it's worth checking out.
Here is some of what we were initially thinking on the contest...
-- We'll be giving away thousands of dollars worth of Falcons. We'll decide on the exact amount depending on interest in the competition (i.e. how many people sign up). People entering the contest will play with a mouse versus a Falcon based team, in order to win a Falcon. The Falcon based team will just be players from our community - they are not pros, so it will be possible to beat them.
-- If you buy a Novint Falcon now and you also win one in the contest, we'll refund your money and you can keep your Falcon, or you can have a second one
-- We'll have two pools of Falcons to give away, one for L4D and one for TF2
-- We'll post an official rule set this time
-- We'll have another thread that we'll draw participants from (we'll have parallel threads in Hl2.net, edgegamers.org, Steam's forums, and Novint's message boards). There will be set match times this time. You can only post in each thread once.
-- Before the matches start, we'll describe how many Falcons we're giving away. Only winning teams can win a Falcon. If we have fewer or equal winners than Falcons we're giving away, then every winner will get a Falcon. If we have more winners than Falcons, we'll have a drawing to see who ultimately gets one.
-- Teams will be randomly drawn from the entry threads (there's no preference to posting in the thread early this time, so you don't have to spend hours hitting F5). We're thinking 6v6 for TF2 and 4v4 for L4D. Everyone on the team, if they win, will be in the running for a Falcon.
-- Every entry needs a steam account with at least 5 hours of play on it.
-- We'll do some of the coordination of the contest by email (i.e. when your match will be)
-- We'll have a few other fun giveaways while we get the contest up and running, and we'll have some other fun things to get people into the contest itself too.
-- We'll decide and announce the maps at gametime.
-- no special unlocked weapons - just vanilla gameplay.
-- We'll be hosting the TF2 portion of the contest on Edge Gamer servers (http://www.edgegamers.org) - they're a very cool group with lots of members playing online games. They will host the servers and help moderate the contest. You probably will recognize them from their servers which have the "=(eGO)=" name.
-- winners will need to cover shipping charges (paypal or credit card will work).
-- we'll of course reserve the right to modify how we run the contest.
-- we'll expect to hold the contest later in September
-- International players are allowed. The ping will just be what it is. We are looking at doing some contests hosted in Europe as well, for the future.
-- we'll post results on the forums
I'll update this first post with answers to questions/comments as they come in.
Let us know thoughts and details about how you'd like to see the contest run.
thanks all, tomnovint.
With the official release of Falcon support in Left 4 Dead (Novint put a lot of effort integrating Falcon support into L4D specifically), we wanted to have another community event - another contest - this time with both the Left 4 Dead community and the Team Fortress 2 community. Left 4 Dead has been one of our most anticipated games to support the Falcon, and has easily been one of our beta testers favorites. Team Fortress 2 is a blast with the Falcon. I've been playing a lot recently myself.
We had quickly thrown together a contest a month ago for Team Fortress 2, in which we gave away a bunch of Falcons, and there was a lot of interest. It was a lot of fun. I've gotten many emails and PM's since then asking about when we would do another contest, but we were waiting for the L4D release.
This time, we're going to take a little more time, and make it a little more formal. We're also going to be giving away a lot more free Falcons for this contest, so it's going to be a bigger event this time around!!
The point of this post is to get feedback on the contest, and listen to what people think about how we should do it.
You can find more information about the Falcon here (including a video):
https://home.novint.com/store/promote2.php
There's a two week special going on given the Left 4 Dead release, which you might check out in the link. You can get a Falcon bundle (including pistol grip and software) for as low as $139 ($174 plus a 20% discount if you use a referral code, which you can find if you search - if you find one, ask the person about the Falcon. It's a great way to get info). This is definitely one of the best Falcon deals we've done yet this year for the Steam community, so it's worth checking out.
Here is some of what we were initially thinking on the contest...
-- We'll be giving away thousands of dollars worth of Falcons. We'll decide on the exact amount depending on interest in the competition (i.e. how many people sign up). People entering the contest will play with a mouse versus a Falcon based team, in order to win a Falcon. The Falcon based team will just be players from our community - they are not pros, so it will be possible to beat them.
-- If you buy a Novint Falcon now and you also win one in the contest, we'll refund your money and you can keep your Falcon, or you can have a second one
-- We'll have two pools of Falcons to give away, one for L4D and one for TF2
-- We'll post an official rule set this time
-- We'll have another thread that we'll draw participants from (we'll have parallel threads in Hl2.net, edgegamers.org, Steam's forums, and Novint's message boards). There will be set match times this time. You can only post in each thread once.
-- Before the matches start, we'll describe how many Falcons we're giving away. Only winning teams can win a Falcon. If we have fewer or equal winners than Falcons we're giving away, then every winner will get a Falcon. If we have more winners than Falcons, we'll have a drawing to see who ultimately gets one.
-- Teams will be randomly drawn from the entry threads (there's no preference to posting in the thread early this time, so you don't have to spend hours hitting F5). We're thinking 6v6 for TF2 and 4v4 for L4D. Everyone on the team, if they win, will be in the running for a Falcon.
-- Every entry needs a steam account with at least 5 hours of play on it.
-- We'll do some of the coordination of the contest by email (i.e. when your match will be)
-- We'll have a few other fun giveaways while we get the contest up and running, and we'll have some other fun things to get people into the contest itself too.
-- We'll decide and announce the maps at gametime.
-- no special unlocked weapons - just vanilla gameplay.
-- We'll be hosting the TF2 portion of the contest on Edge Gamer servers (http://www.edgegamers.org) - they're a very cool group with lots of members playing online games. They will host the servers and help moderate the contest. You probably will recognize them from their servers which have the "=(eGO)=" name.
-- winners will need to cover shipping charges (paypal or credit card will work).
-- we'll of course reserve the right to modify how we run the contest.
-- we'll expect to hold the contest later in September
-- International players are allowed. The ping will just be what it is. We are looking at doing some contests hosted in Europe as well, for the future.
-- we'll post results on the forums
I'll update this first post with answers to questions/comments as they come in.
Let us know thoughts and details about how you'd like to see the contest run.
thanks all, tomnovint.
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