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Team Fortress 2 Mouse Giveaway?

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handtalk5

So I spent the day playing TF2 and after dying quite often an animation was brought to the screen asking me to click on a golden pot. When I did there came a ticket out of it, saying I was qualified to enter a giveaway for a gaming mouse.

What's up with that? I can't find anything about it by using google.
Is clicking on that pot enough to enter this mysterious giveaway? I don't see the collected tickets anywhere.

[edit] Thank ya'll for you're comments. So it's just an add after all. I guess I should have suspected that, but what confused me is, that after it's viewed about 10 times it asks you to enter a captcha code. What kind of ad asks you to enter a captcha code?!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92975156

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Brotbaum

Maybe you just clicked accidentally an ad in the web browser

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hymie8

That would be weird

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szymi

just check your last server if it's got ads of some sort

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beebs

sounds like someone smoked some golden pot

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undeadcrash

server adds i guess

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wojtek858

^ yes, i saw the same thing, it's just ad.

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Kunibert

Was it inside TF2 itself or was it some server message or something in steam's browser in the overlay?

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metoxys

CritMagnet idle server?

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BernardoOne

this.

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Lezz

simple... HALF-LIFE 3

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Aneszej

I had the same... Steelseries mouse.. idk it asks you to enter your email to enter giveaway, i'm not sure what it is about..
Edit : It pops up in-game a window before you can choose classes.

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szymi

so it's just some server ads

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Aneszej

Possible, but i think i got it. All those servers that have some weird "premium" in-game shi* that make you purchase it, and you get infinite ammo and stuff like that have those adds..

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ACorpse

Disable HTML MOTDs (Multiplayer -> Advanced -> check "Disable HTML MOTD's). I wouldn't trust the built-in browser to not get wtfpwned by malware, and it's REALLY LAME having an animated flash ad screaming out that you need to buy some BS product while you're trying to play.

If, like some servers, it puts a message overlay on your screen telling you to turn HTML MOTDs back on, then find another server.

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Aneszej

Wow thank you for this I hate those stupid adds everywhere.

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ACorpse

No worries.

Turning HTML off does break the !BP (backpack) command to view other people's inventory. If you don't use it, it makes no difference. If you do use it, you can turn HTML back on, use the backpack viewer, then turn it off again. :)

edit: I know HTML ads make money for the people who run the server, but if they can't compromise and host ads that aren't f'ing obnoxious, then I don't want to support them.

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Aneszej

Okay got it! Thanks.

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BananaNation

Came here to say this.

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datenshi

But I have a pretty html MOTD that's not an advertisment ;'< And it's pretty. But now you'll never see it.

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ACorpse

Bet you're a bronie aye. :p

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handtalk5

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92975156
Thank ya'll for you're comments. So it's just an add after all. I guess I should have suspected that, but what confused me is, that after it's viewed about 10 times it asks you to enter a captcha code. What kind of ad asks you to enter a captcha code?!

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ACorpse

Ads where the advertiser wants to be sure that "real customers" are viewing the ad instead of some automated clickbot.

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Hng

Just a server ad that pops up when you join a certain server etc.

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Mohs

I fucking hate that golden pot, its everywhere

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deathbunny32

Odd

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Closed 12 years ago by handtalk5.