Kind of surprised how negative some people took this blogpost (viability of esports complaints aside, which were NOT most of what I've seen). 7.33 and Muerta's stuff were pretty good updates and I think I would prefer more of that than more reworks to the frontpage just to support BP features.
Plus, there's no way in hell Valve isn't going to keep selling expensive shit.
This seems like the best decision for sustainability. It seemed like real frustration was building up around the battle passes being the only content released (even though everybody kept buying the damned things), and it felt like lots of other stuff was being neglected to churn them out. If Valve wants to keep Dota going strong, it can't afford to let the game grow stale chasing after whales who are going to keep playing regardless of whether there's a battle pass or not.
I don’t know what this means for the future of Dota, but at least we can say the days of huge TI prize pools seem to be over (huge relative to prior TIs and not saying this is good or bad).
this could be great, or it could end up being another nail in the coffin for TI