What do you think about Dota plus?

[Sneed]

How do you guys feel about the way dota is monetized? i really enjoy the new crownfall event but was wondering if you guys liked a battle pass or something similar more. Im currently writing my bachlor thesis about payment models in gaming and if you ahve a few minutes to fill out this survey it would really help me:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mvm2uUOiLUKrNvcmV0yYGseZW9g3yMhLnXRnkFfHfxFUREI3VEtZMkJGREtNRENNRkdMRFlLT09KRi4u

simply any thoughts are appreciated aswell

[Juice]

I think needing to pay to access the match evaluation for ranked dota is ridiculous...why would I want to play against/with bad/toxic players at all? It just makes no sense, not only this but today I boot dota and see the champion stickers for teamliquid for purchase. The Ti was barebones and I'm already seeing reddit posts on peoples experiences being nothing compared to prior Ti's.

The only people who like crownfall are broke people that don't want to spend ANY money so crownfall rerolls for an old arcana is enough for them to glorify the patch. I would rather a battlepass with 2 arcanas and the cavern crawl it always came with and even a aghanims-like event. They have clearly shown disinterest in pleasing us the players and are focusing on being a company earning profits. GL to valve on this path I love dota but holy moly are they failing at making the game great.

[Juice]

Also right after I posted this my games crashing after i press accept match. 15 min ban after it happening twice. Must be today's patch everybody's so creative.

[Dinsdale]

Meh, dota+ is a cheap way for me to get some more stats like how well im doing farming wise vs others my skill range. I also like I can dodge potential toxic games during the queue, alteast I have some say in it.

I do like voicelines etc.

It does feel like shards are super grindy to get, unless you win battlecups every week.

Just like TI, I feel like dota+ isnt getting enough love from the devs and valve. They need a spring cleaning.

As for battle passes I prefer the old ones more, the ones that could hype you for a major/supermajor and the TI. As for crownfall its like every other companies battle pass now. Get some free stuff, the most good looking stuff is behind a paywall, as it should be.

[Himmel]

shards too hard to get is like a farming in a korean mmo

[vongogh]

Dota+ is a feature set, Crownfall and Battlepass are their own standalone feature sets.

Someone might like the features of Dota+, so they pay for that, another might prefer to spend only seasonally (once a while), and if they love something in Crownfall such as an item set, or event related loot box, they'd buy that instead.

These are all god tier player friendly monetization ideas while keeping the game free, of course the core product itself have to be good enough that people want to play it. On the surface it might seem like people who pay keep the game free for everyone, but even people who never pay for anything are contributing to the game by playing, without this critical mass, everything is meaningless.

[Zubawanga]

i got 4 dota+ subscription from crownfall events.. haven't use any yet.

[Guardian_A]

I bought it the first year. It was the worst purchase I had made. They literally took a free feature of being able to see stats and put it behind a paywall. Not to mention, the lack of updates after patches making several of the features useless. When dota+ ran out, I was not able to use the sound effects I had made prior and the the runes I had bought for my more played heroes backtracked to level 5 and no longer would level or keep track. It should have been what most people thought it was going to be: A substitution for battle passes, so you no longer had to purchase them every year.

[Sleepless]

Originally posted by Zubawanga:

i got 4 dota+ subscription from crownfall events.. haven't use any yet.

said by a private profile. much better if we can see your 4x dota plus

[Dinsdale]

Originally posted by Sleepless:

Originally posted by Zubawanga:

i got 4 dota+ subscription from crownfall events.. haven't use any yet.

said by a private profile. much better if we can see your 4x dota plus

What is this guy even talking about?

[Yurii]

i had dota+ for 2+ years, then after they introduced sh1t UI based on panorama or something like that.. written in javascript by braindead developers, no more money from me.

i do not pay for lagging piece of sh1t.

[Yurii]

also, it is plagued by russians on all servers, so let them pay for their game, haha
i prefer to mute people for free.

[Venom Raven]

I think the stacking of camps should just be in the base game. It is too much for casuals to remember and it seems unfair that it is gated. That said even if its really pointless I like the stat tracks so I would still pay the price of a coffee to see numbers go up.

[Komodo Bebop]

Its alright. I mainly use it to help me figure out which hero is good for each role and lane. Other than that i dont really use any of the other features

[清冲游戏]

Originally posted by Sneed:

How do you guys feel about the way dota is monetized? i really enjoy the new crownfall event but was wondering if you guys liked a battle pass or something similar more. Im currently writing my bachlor thesis about payment models in gaming and if you ahve a few minutes to fill out this survey it would really help me:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mvm2uUOiLUKrNvcmV0yYGseZW9g3yMhLnXRnkFfHfxFUREI3VEtZMkJGREtNRENNRkdMRFlLT09KRi4u

simply any thoughts are appreciated aswell

Gives you an access to players behavior before accepting the match.

[Artek [General]]

Conflicted?
For once - its fairly cheap. Its only like... $5 a month, something like that?
The only thing i care about, really, is ability to level up my favorite heroes and unlock funny voicelines for them.
But all the other bonuses are nice to have too: you get extra shards to unlock DOTAPLUS exclusive sets and the proceduraly generated Assistant guides on how people play heroes these days help me with getting into a hero i never played before (the default guides almost always suck and horribly outdated).

These days i basically play DOTA in bursts: i don't touch it for months, then something reels me in (usually an event, like Crownfall) and i spend extra $ on the subscription just to get extra value out of my playtime.