They are constantly talking with the community."Earlier this year, Valve began doing what seemed to be promotion for an update to Cheap NBA 2K18 MT Team Fortress 2's Sniper class. The company had teased upcoming Sniper equipment in a similar way to how it had introduced new equipment for other classes like the Heavy and the Medic.
But as the release date approached, the company started "leaking" brief, quickly-removed clues on the TF2 blog and even through direct Steam messages to the community, pointing instead to the Spy class. The fleeting changes quickly fostered an atmosphere of intrigue and mistrust among those tracking the updates."The blog update would flash out with a spy shadow, and then gaming site and community Shacknews would light up, with everyone going
'It's going to be the Spy! Oh my God!' And then it would go away five seconds later, and other people on Shacknews would say, 'It's not the Spy, you're lying!' Then people would take screenshots of another flash, and other people would miss it, and say, 'No, that's Photoshopped. This is the real one.'"The event created a huge amount of buzz for the nearly two-year-old game, and after the free
Spy update was finally released, sales of the full game skyrocketed and raised the game's total online userbase considerably. As Holtman explained, Valve's ability to connect directly to its players, and the open nature of the PC -- without a platform holder that has the final say on release NBA Live Mobile Coins dates and price points -- has allowed it to conceive and
