[1] Dota 2 is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Valve.
The game's map has three roughly symmetric "lanes" between each base, with a number of defensive towers protecting each side.
[2][3] As with previous years of the tournament, a corresponding battle pass for Dota 2 was released in 2022, allowing the prize pool to be crowdfunded by players of the game.
Alexander "JAM" Korotkov and some part of the game's community still consider the decline to be positive or at least inevitable:I'll put it this way: the fact that prize money went down is normal.
I understand Valve perfectly well - you make the tournament with the biggest prize pool (before the Riyadh Masters), that's why it was prestigious.
You can endlessly release these Battle Passes, throw in billions of lootboxes to pump up that prize pool and so on, but the question is: ‘Why?’.