Dota 2 attracted a huge crowd of players in the last 46 months. The number of players got increased by a good difference. In November 2022, the number of players got added with an extra 67,381.4 players strength. This is recorded as the second highest spike. The first spike was on February 2019 with a gain of 89,162.7 players.
Subsequently, Dota 2 has crossed a milestone of 500,000+ players on average. It is the first time since June 2019. It was noted hat the announcement of ‘The International Swag Bag’ played a vital role in the achievement.
Earlier in the month of October, Dota 2 had 456,302.7 players. The number improved in November and was been the happier month.
On a surprising note, the sport has faced a bad fall before the good rise. They had a loss of around 50,000 players in October despite the launch of TI11. The graph changed the phase after the surprise release of ‘International Swag Bag’.
Rise and fall of Dota2 players in 2022 – looking through statistics
Like any other e-sport, Dota 2 had also risen and fallen in various aspects. Starting with October 2022, was the bitter as well as the sweet month of the game. In October 2022, the game had its highest peak since march 2019 in its number of players on average. It recorded 1 million plus players this month, 1,038,848 players to be accurate.
Although it had the highest peak players in the month, it was also been the second month of the year to record a 7-plus % loss. The first time was in the month of February, this year, with a loss of 7.33% of players.
The year 2022 started with a good rise in the graph with 8.12 gain% and 36,494.1 gain of players in January.
On October 26, 2022, Valve’s release of ‘International Swag Bag’ made the next month more sweeter i.e., November recorded the highest gain of players for this year 2022. It marked up with a 14.77% gain.
New updates in Dota 2 for this winter
The Diretide 2022 Collector’s Cache launched on November 23, 2022. It is available for purchase until December 18. It costs $2.49. All items in the Cache are untradeable and unmarketable, except for the ultra-rare Tiny set.
It unwraps 14 treasures which will automatically grant you 36 Battle Levels. And the odds of receiving a bonus rare item will increase with each one you open. You can also recycle any unwanted items for 2 Battle Levels.
This December, Dota 2 has come up with the Winter 2022 Seasonal Treasure and it is made available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Life-stealer, Storm Spirit, Vengeful Spirit, Spirit Breaker, Oracle, Night Stalker, Elder Titan, and Sven. There’s also a chance to unlock Frosty the Sea-dragon, a courier preloaded with random ethereal and prismatic gems.
This December, Dota 2 has given us another chance to equip the missed treasures of 2021. The sets from the Spring 2021 and Summer of 2021 are now available for direct purchase in the Shard Shop for 15,000 Shards each. Players are now excited to get those in this winter.
