becoming eglible for Booster Packs in Dota 2

[2bizzyTOULOUSE]

I have not bought anything for Dota 2 left, so I earned 0 card drops. How many times do I have to spend around 9$ for a card drop now to become eglible for the Booster Pack?

[SwiftSpear]

anyone know for this? Is it just a matter of getting one card drop and then playing till you get the card to be booster eligible?

[edit] in another thread it was claimed that if you didn't have the 5 card drops from buying tf2, buying ingame items to the point you got 1 card drop, then earning that card, opened up your eligibility for booster packs. If you bought a bunch of items and earned a bunch more card drops then your eligability was blocked until you unlocked all those drops as well.

So in order to be booster eligible you must have unlocked at least 1 card drop, and you must have unlocked every card drop you are eligible for.

[burn-jmsrgn]

spending that kind of money just to become eligible for a booster pack is asinine. You Could buy a level 5 badge for less than that.

[박니키]

Which version of the game do you have?, Free 2 Play or Premium?

[SwiftSpear]

Originally posted by burn-jmsrgn:

spending that kind of money just to become eligible for a booster pack is asinine. You Could buy a level 5 badge for less than that.

Badges don't give you eligibility for booster packs. So you can have a level 3 badge (max level afaik) but you will still be unable to receive booster packs for that game. The only thing you get is the xp points, which can help you earn boosters for other games.

[burn-jmsrgn]

if you have a level 5 badge, wtf do you need boosters for? boosters that drop rarely, and could be for any game you have... the chances of it being the one he wants, DOTA, that much slimmer.

[Kotihyttynen]

He could still sell or trade them away, and especially if he planned to spend money on Dota anyway, it'd be just an added bonus.

[SwiftSpear]

Originally posted by burn-jmsrgn:

if you have a level 5 badge, wtf do you need boosters for? boosters that drop rarely, and could be for any game you have... the chances of it being the one he wants, DOTA, that much slimmer.

Badges have no wallet value, boosters are basically free steam credit. Badges are worth epeen points, sure, they're nice, you can brag about them, cumulatively they put you higher in the pyramid scheme, but if you are purely playing cards for economic reasons 100 level 1 badges is equally as useful as 20 level 5 badges, and it really doesn't matter at all what games the badges belong to.

[burn-jmsrgn]

Originally posted by Kotihyttynen:

and especially if he planned to spend money on Dota anyway, it'd be just an added bonus.

Yeah, of course. If that was the case though, what he needed would simply come over time. Seeking out the information makes me think otherwise. "I need to know so I can get it done." Is what it sounded like to me. And again, considering how unlikely it is that he will specifically get a DOTA booster makes it not worth thinking about too much, much less spending money specifically to hit a mark so that one might, maybe, one day, get a 3 card booster thay could buy right now for a fraction fo the cost.

[burn-jmsrgn]

Originally posted by SwiftSpear:

Badges have no wallet value, boosters are basically free steam credit.

This is my whole point. You say that as though he will get a number of booster packs any time soon that would add up to or more than the 9.00 in his steam wallet he spent to become eligible in the first place!

[SwiftSpear]

Originally posted by burn-jmsrgn:

Originally posted by SwiftSpear:

Badges have no wallet value, boosters are basically free steam credit.

This is my whole point. You say that as though he will get a number of booster packs any time soon that would add up to or more than the 9.00 in his steam wallet he spent to become eligible in the first place!

Becoming eligible for booster packs has a value, the badge may or may not be a goal at all. I'm willing to spend a bit extra for booster pack eligibility, I really don't care about badges generally, unless I have enough cards to earn 10 levels in one shot.

[edit] I'm planning on getting a dota booster if it costs around $9, where as if I were to expect to pay $36 I'd probably skip it.

[The Madcap Warrior]

I can confirm that you only need to spend $9 to unlock 1 drop to become eligible for booster packs. I have only spent $12 on Dota 2 and collected 1 drop, it says I'm eligible for boosters.

[burn-jmsrgn]

"I'm willing to spend a bit extra for booster pack eligibility" The $9 your spending for eligibility may or may not EVER get you a DOTA booster and may or may not, in the end, actually make a difference in getting ANY booster. So, later, after 3-5 boosters have dropped and you've sold them to cover your initial $9, the rest of the boosters can be marketed for essentially free steam wallet funds. 6 boosters later you might be getting "steam credit". Do you know how long it could take to get 6 boosters? 6 boosters that might have dropped without you spending that $9 from the start, none of which might ever actually turn out to be from DOTA.