Valve's Dota 2 Confirmed To Be Free-to-Play?
According to the following screenshot, one of the lucky Dota 2 Beta invite winners managed to get a message that states that he sucessfully activated Valve's Dota 2 Retail Version.
Lately, a lot of people were discussing if Valve's Dota 2 is going to be a free-to-play or gamers will have to buy the retail version of the game via Steam.
According to some players who got their Dota 2 beta invites from Southeast Asia distributor e-Club Malaysia, Dota 2 is going to be a free-to-play game.
How do we know it ?
This picture is courtesy of Wei-Meng Lee, an editor of NoGameNoTalk
Well, players who activated their Dota 2 invite keys (as visible on the picture above), got a message that their game was activated sucessfully and that now they can fully enjoy to play a RETAIL VERSION of Dota 2.
Those keys, given by e-Club Malaysia can only be activated if your IP adress is in Southeast Asia.
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35 comments so far...
Varkenolo, 03/27/2012
olè! <3
Skepi87, 03/27/2012
wow nice
smileee, 03/27/2012, +1 rating
i don't get it... what is a retail version? o.O
bojaN-nap0, 03/27/2012
only se asia .... ?
areithmax, 03/27/2012
How about the invitation from the steam?..it gonna be free also or not??
foxman123, 03/27/2012, -2 rating
http://www.gamersbook.com/community/members/foxman123/
i don¨t get it .... please !!!!!!! x)
xXDanteXx, 03/27/2012, +1 rating
@smileee Full Program = Retail Version , not beta not anythin that may miss some content but a full version of software that you get directly from manufacturer :) hope i helped a bit :)
shnicla, 03/27/2012
e-Club Malaysia,nice marketing ;)
OpTiCaLiLLuSioN, 03/27/2012
steel cant understand it at all but i think are good news :) I CANT WAIT, I WANT DOTA 2!
JoAUumm, 03/27/2012
xXDanteXx, thanks man! I have the same question... =)
smileee, 03/27/2012
@xXDanteXx ok, thakns but... we all know that DotA2 is in a beta right now... i still don't get why a retail version means that it would be f2p :(
xXDanteXx, 03/27/2012
well it basicaly means that if someone actually activated a retail version on steam, without any purchase beforehand, they got it for free from Valve themselves so it could indicate that the game will be free for all like LoL and HoN. But this could also be some mistake during activation some bug on Steam so i guess we will have to wait for official statament on the matter, everything else is just speculation hence the question mark in the title :)
arthurfufu, 03/27/2012
holy nooo!!!!
Please dota cant be free to play, valve will do a big mistake if dota2 launches as free to play.
Pay to play
Pay to play
Pay to play
Pay to play !!!
rgie23, 03/27/2012
how about in the philippines?
Kingoffools, 03/27/2012
@xXDanteXx HoN went free to play after about a year and i must say ive seen alot less flaming than in lol there...
Ive got mixed feelings about the free to play
It would attract alot more players,sure,but also alot more trash among these players (see lol public games...just ridicoulous with everybody reporting everyone just for being "bad" and hoping they get banned"
XeidiDent, 03/27/2012
This is not good. There will be a lot of trolls. And probably, most heroes will be avaliable only if you buy them.
Ashikabi, 03/27/2012
They can't be serious, they must keep it pay to play. All those god damn kids flooding the game makes me sick already. So stupid, I hope they change their minds.
Kingoffools, 03/27/2012
@Ashikabi what is "keep" supposed to mean?its a beta atm,and they never said anything about how it will be published
xXDanteXx, 03/27/2012
Well i do see the down side of free to play games but than again many games out there started as pay to play than switched to free to play so i guess their general opinnion is to keep game free and profit via microtransactions... Than again this info is not confirmed so the game most likely (imo) will be pay to play.
xXDarkDescentXx, 03/27/2012
Most of them said that Dota 2 will be F2P so i think that's what will get. Altough you guys say that LoL has some crazy flaming going on, when i played last time (that was 2-3 days ago) everything was perfect and we had a great time. I think that it depends on what people the game groups you with.
In my oppinion Dota 2 needs to be free and Valve might very well get benefits from microtransactions.
Cheers!
grgoljblaster, 03/27/2012
Well it was obvious that it will be f2p, it has an ingame shop much like the one in Team Fortress 2 (cosmetic stuff mostly)
QiViN7LoCt, 03/27/2012
No way they make it free, lol if they make it free they will loose at least 200.000.000$
Capzoots, 03/27/2012
It is free to play, I am in the beta for both this and counter strike. When i go to the steam page for Dota it says I already own the game. When I go to the store page for CS:GO it shows that I do not own the game yet. This pretty much confirmed it for me.
Capzoots, 03/27/2012
Also the fact that since TF2 went free to play they have made 11 times more money then when it was pay to play. Bring on the hats!
caustrelix, 03/28/2012
It means that DOTA 2 is Pay To Play. Read the article carefully. It say's retail mean you must purchase the game and its not free to play.
smileee, 03/28/2012
The shop in-game means nothing atm, obviously it's a clue for something, but i don't think VALVe make cosmetic items that have 0 relevance in the gameplay... i mean, why i would buy a hat that make my hero "cooler" if it don't help me?
PS: Thx xXDanteXx for the information :)
pakaw13, 03/28/2012
please give me beta key
Apm, 03/28/2012
GG :D
phantoom, 04/02/2012
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Zanetti96, 04/02/2012
Guysss PLZ HELP ME I GET THIS MSG WHEN I TRY TO ACTIVATE IT AND I Have A beta Key I Won IT from MY Freind By Invitation:
Not Aviable
Sorry, but the following items are not available for purchase in this country Your Purchase has been canclled
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz
gamehawk21, 04/06/2012
hey can i have the beta key? im from philippines
gamehawk21, 04/06/2012
hey can i have the beta key? im from philippines
Aiz3n, 04/07/2012
i got the key same as picture above... D2 R ( SE Asia)....
After i complete activate the key and check on steam subs. / license it write like this: "DotA 2 - Single License Retail"
but my on my friend ID it write: "DotA 2 Beta" but the product also retail.
AlexCampos, 04/20/2012
cool
jasminkisac, 04/20/2012, +1 rating
cant w8 to get beta key (if only :( )
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