{"id":44858,"date":"2013-07-10T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=44858"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:19:35","slug":"dota-2-is-out-of-beta-and-free-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dota-2-is-out-of-beta-and-free-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 is out of beta and free to play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dota 2<\/strong><\/a> has finally come out of beta, and is now free to play on Steam<\/strong><\/a>. Starting life as fan-made Warcraft 3<\/strong> mod, the original Dota was hugely popular. This sequel has been made by by Half-Life<\/strong><\/a> and Portal<\/strong><\/a> developer Valve, making it a very polished game.<\/p>\n

If you have Steam (accounts are free), you can download Dota 2 and play free on Windows, Mac and Linux. According to the developer blog, new players are going to be let in gradually, so you may have to wait a little. In this way Valve hopes to avoid server load problems that often plague online games (remember Sim City?<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Dota 2 is an action strategy game<\/strong>. You choose a team of five players and fight against an opponent. You are both defending an ‘Ancient’, and the objective is to destroy these (Dota stands for ‘Defense of the Ancients’). Dota 2 has excellent tutorials for newcomers, which is good as while it appears simple enough, it is actually a very deep game. It’s one of the most competitive online games around, and there are even ‘professional’ Dota 2 competitions. Jumping into a game with an experienced player will result in very speedy losses!<\/p>\n

Dota 2 is free to play, but it’s well done. The in game store is purely for cosmetic purchases – you can’t buy your way to power and glory<\/strong> as is the case in most freemium games.<\/p>\n

Download Dota 2 for Windows<\/a> or Mac<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dota 2 has finally come out of beta, and is now free to play on Steam. Starting life as fan-made Warcraft 3 mod, the original Dota was hugely popular. This sequel has been made by by Half-Life and Portal developer Valve, making it a very polished game. If you have Steam (accounts are free), you … Continue reading “Dota 2 is out of beta and free to play”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[2652],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-44858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondota-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332646,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858\/revisions\/332646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44858"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=44858"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=44858"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=44858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}