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Valve releases new details about Dota 2, confirming suspicions their upcoming MOBA game will be free-to-play, and offering details on the Dota store: Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today confirmed that Dota 2 will be free to play and announced the Dota Store in preparation for the game's release.
Upon its opening, the Dota Store will offer items created by Valve and members of the community that may be used immediately and carried over after the public launch of the game. Early Access to the game is not required to purchase items before launch. However, gamers may get into the game now by purchasing the Dota 2 Early Access Bundle of items.
"The opening of the Dota Store is a big part of our final push to launch," said IceFrog, design lead on Dota 2. "With support for the Steam Workshop, the majority of the items made available on day one were created and being sold by members of the community. By making the game Free to Play, we hope to give gamers the ability to decide how - and how much - they want to invest in the game."
Targeted for full release on the PC later this year, Dota 2 promises to take the unique blend of online RTS and RPG action that has made Dota popular with tens of millions of gamers around the world.
Later this summer Valve will host the International Dota 2 Championships 2012 in Seattle, WA.
For more information on Valve and its games, please visit www.dota2.com
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Re: Dota 2 F2P & Store Details |
Jun 1, 2012, 16:20 |
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bhcompy wrote on Jun 1, 2012, 15:19:
Beelzebud wrote on Jun 1, 2012, 14:21:
bhcompy wrote on Jun 1, 2012, 00:58:
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress)
That's got to be the dumbest criticism I've seen about a game company. TF2 and CS have been worked on by Valve longer than they were mods, and the people who created those were all given really nice jobs. The horror...
They're acquired properties. Rockstar doesn't claim they created the GTA franchise, they accurately attributed creation to the people that made it(Rockstar North, formerly DMA) in their GTA5 press release. What you're saying is like Valve claiming they created Action Quake 2 because Gooseman worked for Valve
Actually, it was created by DMA Design, who was purchased afterwards and renamed Rockstar North.
Team Fortress was created by Team Fortress, who was purchased by Valve and renamed Valve. Counterstrike was made by Mihn Lee and Jess Cliffe, whose company was purchased by Valve and renamed Valve.
So yes, Rockstar is doing the exact same thing by claiming Rockstar North created GTA. What's important is to pay attention to whether it was an asset sail or a merger/acquisition. All three of these cases were the latter. It wasn't the names moving, but the entire entity, including the people behind it. |
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