To those whom have bought dota 2 beta for $50, $25 or whatever prize valve charged, "THEY DESERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE"

[Dwight Schrute]

it is just nonsense when valve charged dota 2 invite for $50 like 1 year ago...now it's free ?? then those people who bought the invite are like what?? They really know how to play dota and would loved to play dota2 that's why they bought it, now valve is making it free for those new people who might be even heard or played DotA before...making them FREE to play dota2 ??? what a irony.....

[ESC]

they got some items for the cash so its not all wasted.

[Microbe Jules]

*sigh* You could get Dota free easy enough by using the hardware survey or even by asking someone for an invite. The Early Access pack, which people paid for got them in game items in addition to the game. So yeah, Dota 2 is now free to play. Kinda like it was before. It's just out of beta, and available to the general public now. And just like always, if you want in game items, (which you don't have to have to play the game) you pay for those.

[Butt_Platypus]

Valve has always been upgront with the fact that, when the game would come out of beta, it would become free to play. I knew this the day I took their survey on the Dota blog and, after a week, I got invited in the beta for free.

Basically the early paid access invites had a bunch of cosmetic items with them, so those who bought them got the stuff or simply didn't read the store page or everywhere around the web, since everyone knew getting an invite for cheap was incredibly easy.

edit: for the ammount of fun and the time spent playing, I would gladly pay 60 euros to keep playing Dota even now.

[Ritchey#228471]

There is nothing wrong with paying for a game. I have played thousands of DotA 1 games and I love the game, so I was very willing to pay for DotA 2. People pay 40 Euros for each WoW addon and 13 euros every month!

[kamui]

Originally posted by EmirSc:

they got some items for the cash so its not all wasted.

This. Recall that the beta invites themselves were always given out for free - you could say that the package offered was really for the in-game items/bonuses, with the actual Dota 2 invite being a complementary inclusion.

[僕の名前 (仮)]

I bought for $4 and I never regret, I got Crystal Maiden set in pack.

[MILNOR]

I bought GTA2 for $40 bucks when it came out and now its free. Can I get something?

[Dwight Schrute]

I'm not really sad they made it free for all that's great more people will play dota2 more friends will be able to play with us just pointing out the valve side but i am totally proud to say that "IT WAS A MONEY WELL SPENT ON MY FAV GAME IN THE WORLD" i'm hitting 2K hours on dota2 next week for sure !!

Originally posted by Richman:

There is nothing wrong with paying for a game. I have played thousands of DotA 1 games and I love the game, so I was very willing to pay for DotA 2. People pay 40 Euros for each WoW addon and 13 euros every month!

[27]

The same happened to TF2. Once i bought the Orange Box (which contains tf2), i was really happy i finally got it. Before i bought it i played on cracked steam. I could play the game for about 1 or 2 months, because there was an update it made the game f2p and made it sucks, after the update i played tf2 for the end of August, After that i said ♥♥♥♥ this game, i won't play this f2p ♥♥♥♥, Now the game is free so everything is about in game items which are expensive, once there wasn't a lot of hats and items, you could do ♥♥♥♥ without buy anything, yes it was once, once was good. Now it's a mad free-for all hatfortress 2, The game full of noobs. i don't play it anymore. SAD. the only thing was the buyers got is a priceless ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hat

Originally posted by Steady K:

it is just nonsense when valve charged dota 2 invite for $50 like 1 year ago...now it's free ?? then those people who bought the invite are like what?? They really know how to play dota and would loved to play dota2 that's why they bought it, now valve is making it free for those new people who might be even heard or played DotA before...making them FREE to play dota2 ??? what a irony.....