@Khaz: People go to work to earn money to spend it on fancy furniture for houses that will all disappear the instant they burn down, leaving no trace behind. Give it some time and there'll be no evidence of all that money you spent. Why does anyone volunteer for such a scam. I don't understand.
People go do work to earn money to spend it on pixel textures for polygons that will all disappear the instant Dota 2 shuts down, leaving no trace behind. Give it ten years and there'll be no evidence of all that money you spent. Why does anyone volunteer for such a scam. I don't understand.
By the way, doesn't the courier change shape now so everybody can show off what courier they have? E.g., this one would change from the donkey to the baby Roshan whenever it delivered something to CM.
@Chesthead: You can't sell most items that drop in the game any more (although you can gift them to other players), so you can't make money that way. But you CAN make a profit buying marketable Dota items and selling them for more, if you buy the right ones at the right prices.
By the end of the day, people that made themselves a bit of income by just playing the game are heroic imo. no real money wasted on practically and literally no physical value.
I've bought a lot of couriers on the community market, but never spent more than $0.20 CDN. Same with announcers. I MIGHT buy the Pyrion Flax one if I ever see it for sale at like $0.50, but right now it's close to $1 and that's too much for me.
Most I ever paid for a courier is 30 dollars and that was for a Nexon item, the item was Jumo! I completely lucked out as the price for that courier fluctuates from 175-250 USD! I say it's a pretty neat investment imo.
Plus,it is safe to say that those that are able to pay for such a thing, are more interrested on doing a kind of safe "bet/investement"
Since it shall not be released anymore on theory it should be a stable price value or a long term investement with the time passing and the value growing up.
The prices on those kind courier were not based on how pretty it was, but rather on their low presence rate due to the hard requirement you had to fulfill in order to obtain one.
Furthermore it's just obey the law " the rarer the pricer "