There is, naturally an important distinction that needs to make: WoW cataclysm Gold players are all subscribers, each of whom pay $15 to play the game each month (unless they opt to purchase a subscription for longer durations, in which case they receive discounts).
Dota 2, by contrast is a no-cost game and is a non-aggressive one in several ways. Contrary to rival League of Legends, it gives players access to every character at no cost. Instead, it earns money from the sales of cosmetics as well as new voice packs for announcers and other items that do not have an directly impact on the game.
In general it's a tiny percentage of the players in free-to-play games ever make a purchase. A recent report found that the figure was 2.2 percent. Although it's possible that the paid players of Dota 2 spend more than $15 each month, we don't have no way to know for certain the amount of money Blizzard and Valve are earning from the two games.
It is also worth noting that while Dota 2's 7.86 million players is a staggering number but it's not even close the League of Legends' player number. The the developer Riot Games announced the game was attracting more than 27 million players per day, with an impressive number of 67 millions gamers per month.
Valve launched its first ever documentary film entitled the film Free to Play, last month. It follows the story of 3 professional Dota 2 players as they trained to compete in the very first Dota 2 International Tournament. It also recently introduced an update called the Spring Cleaning update for Dota 2 which includes a broad array of new features and bugs fixes.
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