Friday, June 1st 2012
DOTA 2: Free to Play Confirmed
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today confirmed that Dota 2 will be free to play and announced the Dota Store in preparation for the game's release.
Upon its opening, the Dota Store will offer items created by Valve and members of the community that may be used immediately and carried over after the public launch of the game. Early Access to the game is not required to purchase items before launch. However, gamers may get into the game now by purchasing the Dota 2 Early Access Bundle of items.
"The opening of the Dota Store is a big part of our final push to launch," said IceFrog, design lead on Dota 2. "With support for the Steam Workshop, the majority of the items made available on day one were created and being sold by members of the community. By making the game Free to Play, we hope to give gamers the ability to decide how - and how much - they want to invest in the game."
Targeted for full release on the PC later this year, Dota 2 promises to take the unique blend of online RTS and RPG action that has made Dota popular with tens of millions of gamers around the world.
Later this summer Valve will host the International Dota 2 Championships 2012 in Seattle, WA. For more information on Valve and its games, please visit www.dota2.com
Upon its opening, the Dota Store will offer items created by Valve and members of the community that may be used immediately and carried over after the public launch of the game. Early Access to the game is not required to purchase items before launch. However, gamers may get into the game now by purchasing the Dota 2 Early Access Bundle of items.
Targeted for full release on the PC later this year, Dota 2 promises to take the unique blend of online RTS and RPG action that has made Dota popular with tens of millions of gamers around the world.
Later this summer Valve will host the International Dota 2 Championships 2012 in Seattle, WA. For more information on Valve and its games, please visit www.dota2.com
56 Comments on DOTA 2: Free to Play Confirmed
Granted Left 4 Dead is amazing, Team Fortress 2 is amazing, Counter Strike: Global Offensive is shaping up to be amazing, and Dota 2 F2P is great too
But they are stalling the conclusion of Half Life series for far too long. There has to be some explanation.
I would rather they release the concluding part before people lose interest completely and just forget the game. There are better and more engaging games out there anyways.
Half Life 3 might not come out unless a team of Valve employees feel like working on it.
At least when money was involved the consequences was losing the money, now WTH will happen ? a new steam ID on a new email ?
But who cares, if money flows better (from items,hats and all that bullshit you see in tf2) than when it was a paid game then valve won't care about cheaters or no cheaters, show me the money :) .
and purchased its invites 20$/each
Can't wait for this game to be released, definitely an incentive to get a new rig :toast:
Now stop living in a cave :slap:
The combat controls is more or less Diablo like, but with decent strategies involved in a strictly 5v5 team game.
Edit: Oh, and because in DotA(2) the actions of one player in a 5 second time window can completely change the outcome of a game, 4 people gets frustrated for every mistake you make. This trait makes DotA(2) players one of the most short tempered and foul mouthed of all gaming communities. LoL more forgiving for mistakes made by one player, but because there are so many more noobs playing LoL the same outcome is achieved.