{"id":65589,"date":"2019-05-19T03:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/valve-is-making-dota-2-players-pay-to-avoid-toxic-gamers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-19T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:09:16","slug":"valve-is-making-dota-2-players-pay-to-avoid-toxic-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/valve-is-making-dota-2-players-pay-to-avoid-toxic-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve is making Dota 2 players pay to avoid toxic gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dota 2 is no longer free to play if you want to have the best experience. In this year\u2019s Dota 2 \u201cBattle Pass\u201d \u2014 a premium subscription<\/a> that usually offers cosmetics and other optional curiosities to the game \u2014 Valve bundled one of the most important features it has ever created. Players who buy the Battle Pass can now use an \u201cexperimental\u201d Avoid Player feature, which is supposed to keep toxic players away from you. Here\u2019s a different way to say it: Valve is now charging players a minimum of $9.99 to avoid harassers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad to see that Valve is finally taking more steps to address its toxic player community and protect Dota 2 players from the worst of the bunch. But it\u2019s telling that the company sees this as an add-on, and not part of…<\/p>\n

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Dota 2 is no longer free to play if you want to have the best experience. In this year\u2019s Dota 2 \u201cBattle Pass\u201d \u2014 a premium subscription that usually offers cosmetics and other optional curiosities to the game \u2014 Valve bundled one of the most important features it has ever created. Players who buy the… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t