'n yer mother told ye video games be a waste a time! Valve has announced that user-created bottles a rum in the new Team Fortress 2 Mann Co. Store have brought in positively massive royalties for five contest-winning Steam community crew. The five community crew included in the initial run a the Mann Co. Store -- Rob Laro, Shawn Spetch, Steven Skidmore, Spencer Kern, 'n Shaylyn Hamm -- all received royalties ranging from $39,000 t' $47,000 after the first two weeks a sales.

Payments be arranged t' be deposited directly into each crew PayPal account, but their account limits be exceeded "within days." Though Valve worked out other payment methods for three a the creators, two a them personally flew t' Seattle t' pick up their checks directly from Valve.

The company points t' the success a Mann Co. Store as an example a what can be achieved with it be new peer-t'-peer marketplace, which can be implemented in any Steam game. Said company head Gabe Newell, "Platforms that enable this kind a peer-t'-peer exchange a virtual goods 'n services be going t' be enthusiastically received." ye can say that again.

In other news, we be -- all a us -- in the wrong line a work.