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    Can someone quickly explain this to me?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by 84CubsFan, Oct 24, 2012.

  1. 84CubsFan

    84CubsFan Notebook Consultant

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    The Steam trade forum seems to be flooded with trades of DotA 2 for other valuable games. In this thread, for example, someone claims to have 50x DotA 2 and someone else says that the current value is $2 per.

    Here is my question: are these DotA 2 invites, or something else? And if they are invites, isn't this a free game??

    I'm confused, and must be missing something fundamental here.
     
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    It's a free game alright.

    Only by invite, that's why some want to pay for it.
     
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    But you can sign up and get in after a few weeks without an invite -- why so valuable? It's valuable enough that people are accumulating 50 invites and actually selling them off. Shrug. Anyway, thanks for the response.
     
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    Is the sign up thing still there? As far as I recall people with DotA2 on Steam just received extra keys to invite people. I don't know.. a lot of people were going wild on the SMITE beta too :p
     
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