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Dota 2 is moving away from the battle pass model as Valve says there are better uses of dev time and most players 'never buy' one anyway (www.pcgamer.com)
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The studio is shifting away from battle passes to release more varied content at a more regular pace.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny thing is, valve invented the battlepass, and now that almost everyone else is using it, they're getting rid of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Valve also "invented" the Free to Play model with loot boxes and showed on large scale how much money one can make with it, if I'm not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

with the difference being that they didn't lock any gameplay content behind payments. only cosmetics