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Why DOTA 2 become Steam Marketable?

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RanTH

Are they supposed to be a "free" invite copies for your friends? And now Steam encourages you to sell them via their Marketplace.

I'd rather selling them to some clueless DOTA maniac in my place for more higher price...

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Mew2

Are they selling well?

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RanTH

There's people buying them for $0.02, lower than current average $0.03 price.

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RanTH

Well if you said so. Steam is not so popular here and some DOTA 1 players (which is one popular game here) has no idea about free DOTA 2's flying around.
And then there's people taking advantage of it by selling the copies, ranging from $5 - $20 each. And they sold well...

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TheDopefish

More money for Valve, they get a 15% cut out of a game that costs them nothing (well, they did have the dev costs, but it will be F2P anyway).

Geniuses!

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MoShU23

I mean, who will ever buy them? There are so many, even free keys are not worth the effort.

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BernardoOne

Because they want to test the marketplace before you can sell games on your inventory.

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Scottbert

This, its a very good stress test. If anything fucks up, Valve will say, "Well, we gave you the dota invites, nothing we cal do..." or just give you more free Dota2 invites.

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joturako

yes :D it's the real reason :) they try to keep money in the steam circle and extract them by transactions fee. very clever when they open the store.

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HeWhoWalksAlone

i appreciate someone making the logical comments here.... there have been invites sold on ebay by idiots the free copies are like you mentioned stress test purposed, they cost nothing earn back a tiny portion in trade percentage.... how many stress tests do you know of where the company got paid to host them?

genuinely brilliant

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Stubbs123

Because soon (valve time) they will let us sell our giftable games, and they're just testing the system with Dota 2.
Isn't it obvious?

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DrDudePhD

"I'd rather selling them to some clueless DOTA maniac in my place for more higher price..."

Shark.

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SgtMathias

Steam is trolling us. :P

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Dahk

I've won 0,03€ by selling 3 Dota2. The modern Rockefeller is being born 8D

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Freestylah

thats 0,03cent to much imo :/

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Zomby
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People are having a hard time just giving them away, who would you sell them to?

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Zepman

I bought about 100 Dota gifts for 1 dollar there.
That's really funny ^^

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CrySak

They are selling for 0.02 €, so you will not make a lot with it :D

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NRG

Why? All the taxes are going to Valve, smart play there I have to agree..

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Irvineanca

Now valve is earning from dota trades :p

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Shwade

All my friends have dota2 and i still had 11 invites, before sold them. There's a comission, so valve wont be poorer.

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Closed 12 years ago by RanTH.