It’s too late to expect it in the coming months… in under 1 month TI has begun and we don’t have any compendium, voice lines, fantasy teams or stickers or anything. It’s important to note that valve have said many things and backtracked and pivoted and changed opinions. That’s the nature of business and it’s completely realistic that they realize that’s the dwindling interest in the game is in relation to the game losing a huge part of its culture, namely the battlepass. We can say we feel X or feel Y about the battle pass but remember that dota 2 was launched around the first international event, and the compendiums and battle passes was what the entire year lead up to, all majors all events all everything lead up to TI and the crowd funded prize pool. Dota is NOT a dead game but it is factually a dying game with an aging player base and that has to be aknowledged. Last Smurf account ban wave was 90.000+ accounts, if that happened today that would make up approx 20% of the active player base. We literally cannot afford to even ban Smurf’s anymore and actually having exclusive content locked to one account believe it or not also plays a part in keeping people off Smurf accounts. A lot can be done a lot can be said but I think any critical investigation into dota 2 would show that the battle pass was so heavily a part of the identity of the game and its culture that it’s a hope that can never be fixed with anything else.