dota 2 for 0.02 cents on the market?

[MARTYR]

i went onto the market and saw that there are over 600,000 thousand copies of dota 2 for sale. the game is 30$ but tons of these copies are less than 50 cents, the first 100 or so are only 2 cents. why is this? did someone pirate the game and give 20 free copies to everyone or something like that? or are all of these just scams?

[The Happy Sailor]

Because valve throw beta keys at people, also the $30 version gives you some cosmetic items with it.

[MARTYR]

Originally posted by The Happy Sailor:

Because valve throw beta keys at people, also the $30 version gives you some cosmetic items with it.

lol sounds like they just destroyed any chance of makeing money off it.

[The Happy Sailor]

Originally posted by thecoolestloseryouknow:

Originally posted by The Happy Sailor:

Because valve throw beta keys at people, also the $30 version gives you some cosmetic items with it.

lol sounds like they just destroyed any chance of makeing money off it.

Hardly, they sell cosmetic items and make a ton of cash from it.

[liong]

Originally posted by The Happy Sailor:

Originally posted by thecoolestloseryouknow:

lol sounds like they just destroyed any chance of makeing money off it.

Hardly, they sell cosmetic items and make a ton of cash from it.

Yep. More people into the game will make higher chance more people buying the not-so-important cosmetics items

[*oblon]

that work well for valve....take a look on team fortress 2... nearly same. and people buy keys for chests like crazy to get some shiny items that dont make them stronger but better looking xD

[僕の名前 (仮)]

Dota 2 is declared as free2play long time ago. Dota 2 in store used more as advertisement ("what if someone buy it?") it's very overpriced for what it comes with (2 bad common sets + decent courier) It's easy to get courier for 1 key ($2.5) and sets worth nothing if you ever need them you can find someone who sell for 10 cents.

Valve should just remove that invite2play nonsense. There are already 300K+ unused invites wandering in world.

And reduce price in store, or give better bonuses)

[pringles]

Originally posted by thecoolestloseryouknow:

over 600,000 thousand

over six hundred thousand thousand? i could not resist

[Zovi Mentov]

Originally posted by DC standby:

Originally posted by thecoolestloseryouknow:

over 600,000 thousand

over six hundred thousand thousand? i could not resist

1. Buy invites
2. Invite half of India
3. *cheerful dance and song about the gal I love, with elefants and silly hats*
4. Profit

[pōpŭľâR]

Originally posted by The Happy Sailor:

Because valve throw beta keys at people, also the $30 version gives you some cosmetic items with it.

[Hempest]

Originally posted by <font face="Segoe Script">Sonic:

Originally posted by The Happy Sailor:

Because valve throw beta keys at people, also the $30 version gives you some cosmetic items with it.

Any reason you decided to necro a thread from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2013?

[LSD]

Does anyone ever take the time to wonder if anyone in these old threads is still alive? There's probably a few cases where they've died.
And that's depressing.