Valve cracks down on 'wild west' of 3rd party battle passes and other real-money transactions for custom Dota 2 game modes

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Valve cracks down on 'wild west' of 3rd party battle passes and other real-money transactions for custom Dota 2 game modes
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While the Dota 2 Arcade's situation was untenable, some custom game devs wish it had turned out differently.

shared an open letter requesting Valve come to some sort of accommodation with legitimate developers in the Dota 2 arcade, noting that Auto Chess creator Drodo Studio's first effort in the Dota 2 arcade was monetized."To be clear, we’re not asking to continue the current wild-west-style of monetization either—none of us think that’s healthy," the letter reads."Instead, we want nothing more than an official way to monetize our games.

"Effectively, [the Dota developers] understood what was happening⁠—obviously, they're fucking Dota devs⁠—and they just weren't able to allocate resources to change anything" Valve seems to be stepping up its enforcement of the secondary economies around its popular competitive games. This change to Dota comes right after Valve

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