Mababa ang Dota 2 TI 2023 Prize Pool? Kasalanan ba ng Dota 2 Compendium?

Seems like Dota 2 glory days are over, that's if we take into account The International Prize pools. Because apparently, the ‘Dota 2’ International 12 or TI 2023 prize pool is historically low. Not the lowest but one of the lowest. According to the Dota 2 price tracker website, the contributed prize pool so far is 2.8 million USD this is as of October 5. Why is it 2.8 million low? Well that's because if we compare it to the previous TI events, for example The International 2021 has a total prize pool of $40,018,195 and The International 2022 has a total prize pool of $$18,930,77.

So why is this happening? Earlier in the year Valve announced that the traditional Battle Pass that is used to crowdfund the TI prize pool would be going away. So instead, a new system more focused on the pro scene would be used, so that system is called the ‘Dota 2’ Compendium. According to Forbes, the compendium is similar to the crowdfunding structure they had 10 years ago. Because of this a lot of players found it very disappointing because it lacked the usual arcanas, immortal treasures, and skins that have traditionally been major incentives for purchase. There are two price tier Standard which costs 7.49 usd and Upgraded compendium which costs 29.99 usd. So if we go by the numbers seems like people voted with their money and didn't buy the compendium resulting on lower TI contributed prize since 25% of sales will contribute to the prize pool. Then according to the Hawk website Valve plans to raise The International 2023 prize pool to $15 million. This information was shared by Zhanna 'Red' Batkovna, an esports manager for Dota 2 teams, on her Telegram channel and also the sales are not done yet so maybe there is a chance? But i don't think it will be breaking records like what we previously had.

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