Can you believe battle passes have only been around for a decade?
10 years ago, Valve invented the battle pass. The developer was looking for a way to boost the cash it was offering to pro players of its game Dota 2, and make some bank for itself in the process. Charging people to watch the tournaments wasn’t really viable after two years of giving it away for free, and putting ads around the broadcast or in-game would annoy a ton of people .
While at the time this was just seen as a cool way to boost the funds for the Dota 2 pro scene, history has credited the TI3 Compendium as the first major iteration of a battle pass, the system that you likely know and love from hundreds of games available today.
At the time for Dota 2 fans, including myself, this was amazing. Grinding to unlock compendium levels added an extra meta game to Dota, and made playing even more rewarding. While it was effectively just a different take on the loot boxes Dota 2 already had, with the compendium there was a greater sense of having earned your new toys. Valve were definitely onto something, and I've spent far too much money on subsequent Dota 2 battle passes in the years since.
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