Dota 2 is moving away from the battle pass model as Valve says there are better uses of dev time and most players 'never buy' one anyway (www.pcgamer.com)

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The studio is shifting away from battle passes to release more varied content at a more regular pace.

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[-] CIWS-30@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Good on them. Now if everyone else would get on board with this. Fomo pay to win battle passes are why I quit games rather than why I stay. One of the worst modern inventions for gaming since lootboxes.

[-] UnshavedYak@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I actually like them when there isn't a time limit. Chivalry 2's battle-pass-thing is nice for that reason. It's just something i can throw on while i play normally with no grind

[-] Zana@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Halo does this very nicely. You can buy either the current battlepass or any other battlepass that's been sold so far.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Funny thing is, valve invented the battlepass, and now that almost everyone else is using it, they're getting rid of it.

[-] thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Valve also "invented" the Free to Play model with loot boxes and showed on large scale how much money one can make with it, if I'm not mistaken.

[-] rastla@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

with the difference being that they didn't lock any gameplay content behind payments. only cosmetics

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