Valve has let slip their plans to release this year’s version of The International Compendium in the coming week, alongside a myriad of other community-based announcements for their return to Seattle in a blog post today.<\/p>
While it isn’t the Battle Pass players have gotten used to over the previous few iterations of TI, the Compendium’s return was hinted at in the closing statements of Sept. 23’s blog post<\/a>, which also mentioned that tickets for the Road to the International\u2014the “group stage” of TI12\u2014are now sold out. “Only about a thousand” tickets remain up for grabs for the playoffs weekend, according to Valve.<\/p>
Despite reports the company made nearly $300 million USD<\/a> from TI11’s Battle Pass in 2022, Valve made the decision to change up their approach to side content for this year’s version of The International back in June.<\/p>
We’ll know for sure what the Compendium will include next week, with the pre-TI12 Dota 2<\/em> patch expected on Thursday. Next week is set to be monumental for Valve, with rumors swirling of Counter-Strike 2’s<\/em> release on Wednesday<\/a> just before the Dota 2<\/em> patch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"