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[KQ]

For whatever reason, I have four DotA 2 invites in my Steam inbox. If you want one, feel free to ring me a bell.

[Robsy128]

So... I'm quite confused.

Is Dota a buy to play game or something? I've heard a lot of people talking about it so I thought I would check it out. I looked at it on Steam and it has a price of £22.99. Yet it already says that I own the game and I can download it. Then when I googled it, apparently the game is only in beta, so I'm guessing I can play the beta now and then pay for the game when it comes out?

If anyone could explain this, I would be appreciative

[jirayasan]

Pwned some lovely people today.

I have two Dota 2 keys left if someone's interested.

Robsy128, on 08 December 2012 - 06:18 PM, said:

So... I'm quite confused.

Is Dota a buy to play game or something? I've heard a lot of people talking about it so I thought I would check it out. I looked at it on Steam and it has a price of £22.99. Yet it already says that I own the game and I can download it. Then when I googled it, apparently the game is only in beta, so I'm guessing I can play the beta now and then pay for the game when it comes out?

If anyone could explain this, I would be appreciative

Yeah it's still in beta, but you can buy it, i think you get some extra stuff if you do. You can get a Dota 2 key for free but then you don't get the stuff and i'm not sure if you will be able to play with a beta account when  it goes live.

[BabyChooChoo]

Robsy128, on 08 December 2012 - 06:18 PM, said:

So... I'm quite confused.

Is Dota a buy to play game or something? I've heard a lot of people talking about it so I thought I would check it out. I looked at it on Steam and it has a price of £22.99. Yet it already says that I own the game and I can download it. Then when I googled it, apparently the game is only in beta, so I'm guessing I can play the beta now and then pay for the game when it comes out?

If anyone could explain this, I would be appreciative

You can buy into the beta and get early access if you want. I would personally advise against it because even though you get a few free items, so many people have so many leftover invites, all you have to do is ask and you should be able to find one. The reason it shows up on your account is because all f2p games on Steam are listed as being available in everyone's library even if you've never downloaded it. Anyone not in the beta though can only download the spectator client which let's you watch games to your heart's content.

When the game goes live, it'll still be completely f2p. Anyone can download and play it without ever dropping a dime. All the heroes - past, present, and future - will be free too for all eternity.

[Robsy128]

BabyChooChoo, on 08 December 2012 - 08:39 PM, said:

Anyone not in the beta though can only download the spectator client which let's you watch games to your heart's content.

When the game goes live, it'll still be completely f2p. Anyone can download and play it without ever dropping a dime. All the heroes - past, present, and future - will be free too for all eternity.

Oh... so I guess I'm only downloading the spectator client at the moment?
£22.99 seems very expensive just for a beta access key...

[Gilles VI]

Could anyone send me a key via mail?
I'll edit this post once I got one, so I don't get multiple keys.

[jirayasan]

Gilles VI, on 08 December 2012 - 09:03 PM, said:

Could anyone send me a key via mail?
I'll edit this post once I got one, so I don't get multiple keys.

What's your mail?

[Gilles VI]

jirayasan, on 10 December 2012 - 02:38 PM, said:

What's your mail?

This guru mail?

[jirayasan]

Gilles VI, on 10 December 2012 - 03:08 PM, said:

This guru mail?

No. I need a real mail to send it. Like a hotmail.

[Duanheim]

No, but thanks for asking.

Edited by Duanheim, 30 December 2012 - 12:44 AM.

[jirayasan]

Duanheim, on 24 December 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

Anyone with spare key? I would love to try this game.

Steam: Duanheim or PM me

Merry Christmas to you all ^^

You still need one?

[Millenium]

The amount of Dota 2 invites is flooding my steam inventory, as I assume it is those of other people. So if anyone needs one (or two, or a dozen) send me a PM!

[Baradaki]

I have six beta keys if anyone wants in. Just shoot me a PM or something.

[Naoroji]

Sooo... Supposedly Dota 2 will be f2p.

By the way, I still have thirteen keys left. (I think they sent out another round yesterday.) For anyone who still wants one: Let me know.

[Baradaki]

I thought everyone knew that.

[Naoroji]

Baradaki, on 23 January 2013 - 08:00 PM, said:

I thought everyone knew that.

I saw people earlier in this thread speculating about that; I just didn't notice the dates.

[Baradaki]

Well now you know.

[Corsair]

Recently been playing this and have been enjoying Jakiro a hell of a lot. I have decent experience playing HoN so the switch over isn't too jarring. Still a pain to have to re-learn all the item names and heroes again.

[Naoroji]

Hey guys, I've been really enjoying Dota 2, even started playing a little bit of public games...

... Aaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone.


That's just the worst feeling ever, when you're doing stuff at least somewhat right and your teammates are just doing things so, so, so wrong...

[Corsair]

Aaaand that is why the community in most moba games is ass. It's really easy to do bad. This leads to ostracizing of bad players. My biggest issue is the time it takes to get matchmaking... and Russians.

[Red J]

Corsair, on 02 February 2013 - 08:22 AM, said:

Aaaand that is why the community in most moba games is ass. It's really easy to do bad. This leads to ostracizing of bad players. My biggest issue is the time it takes to get matchmaking... and Russians.

Quoted for truth.

[BuddhaKeks]

Corsair, on 02 February 2013 - 08:22 AM, said:

Aaaand that is why the community in most moba games is ass. It's really easy to do bad. This leads to ostracizing of bad players. My biggest issue is the time it takes to get matchmaking... and Russians.

All Mobas have their problems with the community, but Dota 2 takes it to a new level, imo. When I played the game, i usually ended up playing with 3-4 russians who proceded to talk russian. That's okay, if that makes it easier for them to share important information. The problem is, they always asumed I was russian too and spoke to me in that language, to which I could only reply: "In english pls?" which was followed by silence. Now luckily I have enough experience with Mobas to not be depended on informations they give me. But it was still rather unsettling to play in such silence, that was only broken by foreign sentences. Even if it's sounds surreal, playing Dota 2 almost felt to me, like getting lost in a foreign country, where no one understands and you just try to find your way home.

Well then there is also the terribly slow gameplay and that crazy delay between input of a command and execution. No, I rather stay with HoN. It has everything that Dota 2 does right, without the many things it does wrong.

[Corsair]

BuddhaKeks, on 04 February 2013 - 04:21 PM, said:

All Mobas have their problems with the community, but Dota 2 takes it to a new level, imo. When I played the game, i usually ended up playing with 3-4 russians who proceded to talk russian. That's okay, if that makes it easier for them to share important information. The problem is, they always asumed I was russian too and spoke to me in that language, to which I could only reply: "In english pls?" which was followed by silence. Now luckily I have enough experience with Mobas to not be depended on informations they give me. But it was still rather unsettling to play in such silence, that was only broken by foreign sentences. Even if it's sounds surreal, playing Dota 2 almost felt to me, like getting lost in a foreign country, where no one understands and you just try to find your way home.

Well then there is also the terribly slow gameplay and that crazy delay between input of a command and execution. No, I rather stay with HoN. It has everything that Dota 2 does right, without the many things it does wrong.

Dota 2 doesn't feel any slower to me, and I cut my moba teeth on HoN. The only delay I've seen is turn speed on movement (near instant in HoN which makes it feel more responsive) and a small cast time on my skills. Movement speed and kill time are near identical.

As for the Russians, I hear you. I don't often get paired with so many of them, but one or two isn't out of the question. Most of them have been bad but I've played with a few competent ones. Really, anytime you get a game large enough with a multi-national following this kind of thing will happen. It's just unfortunate that moba design makes this effect far more evident and negative for a multi-cultural userbase. What Valve can do is try to use the voice commands and activate them upon some specific words typed regardless of the language to help bridge the gap.