We're excited to release the International Compendium for The International 2023. Because this is a new shape to previous years’ Compendiums, we wanted to walk you through what it is, how it works, and why we built it. As we described a few months back, looking at Dota's history made it clear that Battle Passes had steadily grown to consume all the content in a given year, and were inhibiting our ability to ship creative things throughout the year.
Its honestly more than I expected. The price is also a bit higher than I expected, but I’m glad they put the effort into the esport-fan side of things even though clearly trying to move away from the giant cosmetics bundle that the battle pass was.