'DOTA 2' will be free-to-play 'with a twist,' says Gabe Newell - Polidicks

Do they have a new hat engine for DOTA 2?

Hat comments are getting old

I agree.

[QUOTE=Lone Wolf807;35651122]There's no hats.[/QUOTE] What are you talking about? There's tons. Hell, they even had Kunkka's pirate gear implemented before he was even [I]playable[/I].

I hope it doesn't go to the point where you buy heroes.

[QUOTE=Dogchow33;35651805]I hope it doesn't go to the point where you buy heroes.[/QUOTE] In before Hero Rotation.

[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;35650680]Please, dear god, [I]no[/I]. Spiral Knights did the thing where it limited how much you could play for free, and it was [I]awful[/I].[/QUOTE] I thought Spiral Knights did it pretty well. At least when I was playing, you could earn enough energy each trip to make enough for the next plus a little left over. The problem was with the insane about of energy it took to craft items.

[QUOTE=Flubadoo;35651203]HoN tried to do a non-F2P model for a game like this. It failed. Honestly, I don't see any other reasonable options, seeing as how incredibly different games in the Dota genre are from any other games, and how hard the game can be. If they made it one-time pay, the reviewers would all get pissed off since they wouldn't even get close to learning the basics of the game in a few days, then proceed to shit out 5/10s and etc. It has to be F2P so people can try it and see if they like it.[/QUOTE] F2P opens the game up for more people but Hon was more fun when it wasn't F2P.

now people can make multiple accounts and lose on purpose and shit like that

[QUOTE=Bletotum;35650665]F2P is dandy as long as paying does not create a significant advantage that said, I am okay with really good games having limited demo types in multiplayer it's all about how it is marketed; I hate the idea of a game being free to play in a way that implies an equal footing where paid players dominate.[/QUOTE] League of Legends got the f2p model spot on. You have to pay for cosmetic skins and account upgrades such as name changes, "perk loadout" pages (Basically little stats like +1 Armor) and the run of the mill money or xp rate increases. League of Legends is one of the highest earning f2p games and the only "power" you can buy in the game can only be obtained with the in-game currency which cannot be purchased with money directly.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;35652728]I thought Spiral Knights did it pretty well. At least when I was playing, you could earn enough energy each trip to make enough for the next plus a little left over. The problem was with the insane about of energy it took to craft items.[/QUOTE] Yeah, you were basically barred from crafting higher level items unless you bought crystal energy, or were somehow able to convince someone to trade their bought CE for something you got for free. That's the problem with spiral knights. You can play a fair amount, but you cannot craft good items without dosh.