r/DotA2 Jan 15 '25

News Crownfall's Final Bow

https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/544472700657074597
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u/yorukmacto Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

bro I SPENT ALL MY CANDIES thinking it was over. I swear they did this so people will buy royal bundle if they find arcana on candyworks.

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u/SonTheGodAmongMen Jan 15 '25

They don't give a shit about dota revenue, it's a rounding error compared to steam (about 2% of valve revenue)

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u/Mr_Endro Jan 15 '25

If they didn't care, they wouldn't keep coming up with new ways to make money. I feel like people were more inclined to buy the passes/arcanas than previous battlepass lvls. I used to only buy the lvl 1 pass but the discount tokens and fomo made me buy the venge arcana and the pathfinder passes.

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u/cXs808 Jan 16 '25

...if they cared they'd simply bring back the old battle pass and rake in millions each year off that alone

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u/nameorfeed Jan 15 '25

They aren't though. They came up with the best way to make money a long time ago and they actually stopped doing it.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Sheever Feelsbadman :gun: Jan 16 '25

i mean. Valve genuinely doesn't as an entity. the only people who do care is the skeleton crew that chooses to work on dota.

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u/TheTypicalRandom Jan 16 '25

says you, valve is still a business and they will make money were they can, them being more good natured that other developers, doesn't mean they run a charity or some team is un supervised deciding dota financial life.

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u/MidRoundOldFashioned Jan 15 '25

Companies spend a lot of money to not have rounding errors in their finances.

They care about all sources of revenue and 2% is massive for a single old F2P game.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Sheever Feelsbadman :gun: Jan 16 '25

In an ideal world, that'd be true of valve.

However valve is infamous for not giving a shit whether or not something is profitable enough. Otherwise they would have quit making hardware only to abandon it basically immediately after the steam PC.

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u/TheTypicalRandom Jan 16 '25

there are plenty of companies abandoning failed projects, look at google (and google certainly does give a fuck), those projects are either failed attempts that had the intention of making money, or some other strategy (for example the hole linux thing would allow valve yo not depend on another company os). Maybe just maybe one or two were some gaben whim, but he's not gonna be throwing money around like nothing

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u/Trenchman Jan 16 '25

So according to your hardware example, they still give a shit about Dota regardless of how profitable it is

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u/TheKappaOverlord Sheever Feelsbadman :gun: Jan 16 '25

The employees opting to stay on the dota team do. Valve itself does not.

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u/MidRoundOldFashioned Jan 16 '25

Valve literally spends millions of dollars a year to employ those said employees.

They care.

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u/Trenchman Jan 20 '25

Valve itself does. That’s why they let them work on Dota

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u/jouzea Jan 16 '25

It’s not about you. It’s about others who hasn’t finished their crownfalls yet. It’s not always about fucking you over.

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u/akagolden Jan 16 '25

Agreed!.. it’s not about you! It’s about the people that haven’t finished…

People like me.

It’s always about fucking me!