Why does dota cost money

Valve confirms online battle game will be free; introduces Dota Store and Steam Workshop Integration. The publisher also announced the inclusion of an in-game store, where players will be able to buy gear and customise heroes--however, all items in the store will be cosmetic and will not affect gameplay.

Dota 2 will be free to play. All heroes will be available free of charge, with Valve writing on the Dota 2 blog : "We believe restricting player access to heroes could be destructive to game design, so it's something we plan to avoid. This presents a mystery to the uninitiated: Exactly where is all this money coming from? How does one single game accumulate so much money for its biggest tournament? With every International since , Valve has released a companion guide alongside it, an in-game app called the Compendium.

This got me thinking how Dota 2 really is the only game that does Free to Play right, that is, in a way that benefits the player as much or more than the company. Dota 2 is free to play with no exceptions. The only items you can purchase are purely cosmetic. This makes it so everyone can have an equal experience with the entire game without paying one dime.

If you want, however, you can purchase things such as outfits, environmental effects, announcer packs, HUD skins, loadings screens and couriers an animal in Dota 2 that will bring you your items after purchasing them. You can purchase a battlepoint booster, which will increase the rate at which you level up for a certain amount of time. However, your level has no effect on the game.

This benefits the player and Valve equally, because Valve offers players items they genuinely want to buy, not have to buy or be left behind. Valve makes money, Dota 2 players look pretty. It does nothing, it's just shiny.

Yet people spend thousands of paper currency on it, to either have in in a vault in the form of bars, or wear it around their necks or fingers. Even worse when you wear it, you keep losing some of it from contact. I sure hope you are trolling or 12 years old if you don't get why people like to have, collect or trade things that look good. People like shiny stuff , that is all. OR you can drop in some money , and be different.

That said , i dont buy equips , got a ward and a anouncer cause they change the game more , 1 hero looks is not worth that much money. Ursprungligen skrivet av L3ros :.