The Steam marketplace has absolutely all available goods from games that are on Steam, with the exception, of course, of those things that cannot be sold or transferred.
And even though the prices on Steam’s home site don’t always please us, sometimes we have no choice but to buy things from here, because on third-party sites there is always a risk of being deceived, or the thing you need simply won’t be available on the sites of third-party stores, or simply , you cannot exchange things for a certain period of time, but you need the thing right now. In such cases, you have to use the trading platform.

Today we will focus specifically on the Dota 2 section on the Steam Market and talk about it in a little more detail.

How to get to the Dota 2 marketplace

To do this, go to Steam and in the top menu select: Community -> Marketplace
Now you need to switch to the Dota section. To do this, in the menu on the right, select Dota itself.

Now we have a list of the most popular items, as well as a search bar, which is located to the right of this list. Also, in addition to the search bar, below it there is “”
We will talk about them further.

How to sort things on the Marketplace

To find the thing you need, you will, of course, use the search bar. However, many items have similar names, so it may be difficult to find certain items.
It was to solve this problem that sorting was invented.
So, you need to click on the inscription “ Additional search settings»
The following window will open:


In this window, you can choose which slot the item you are looking for should be in, which hero this item should be for and which cell it should be in, as well as its rarity and quality.

Now you can easily find the item you need by simply checking the options that suit you in the sorting menu.

How to buy things cheaper?

And here there is no secret. To take this or that item cheaper, you just need to keep an eye on the prices and catch the moment when the price suddenly drops. Few people do this, but if you are determined and enthusiastic, then go ahead! Go for it!
By the way, to monitor prices, I can advise you to look for add-ons for your browser. There are a huge variety of them for every type of browser.

What about the commission

The commission here is extremely small, much less than on third-party trading platforms.

The commission fee is only $0.01 per purchase/sale or so, while on third-party sites the commission is several times larger.

About currency

The currency in your Steam account depends on what country you are in.
If you are in Russia, then most likely the currency on your account will be measured in rubles.
If you are in Ukraine or any other CIS country, then most likely there will be dollars in your account.
Unfortunately, there is no way to switch this.
The only way to change the currency on your account is through long and tedious conversations with Steam Support. However, this rarely helps, since the Steam rules do not stipulate that you can simply write and they will immediately change the type of currency on your account.
Regarding depositing money, then they are converted into the currency that is in your account at the current rate.
You can enter money through payment terminals, or from Qiwi, WebMoney, etc.

IN Steam there is such a service as trading platform. There you can sell your inventory items for real money. At the moment, you can put up for sale some items from Team Fortress 2 And Dota 2, and coupons, gifts(For example, Dota 2) and so on. From items Dota 2 you can sell chests, keys, eggs, tickets, essences, shortcuts, battle bonuses and items that have status Genuine(List of items Genuine you can see).

So, if you haven't already Dota 2, but you really want to play, then you can purchase the game on the trading platform. Invites have a price of 20 kopecks and above. Very cheap, isn't it?

What if you have a ton of these invites and you no longer know what to do with them? No problem, you can sell them on the trading platform! At a price of 20-25 kopecks, invites are bought quite quickly.

How to purchase a Dota 2 invite

How to put up a Dota 2 invite for sale

By clicking on the picture you will see it in full size.

Buy something on trading platform only possible using funds in your account. Steam supports several payment methods: WebMoney, Yandex money, Qiwi, Visa And MasterCard, but the fact is that with the help of these payment systems you can top up your wallet balance only in amounts of 150, 300, 750, 1500 and 3000 rubles. If you want to top up your balance, say, with an amount less than 150 rubles, you can use almost any payment terminal.

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How I earned 500,000 rubles in Dota 2

And spent 4400 hours in the game

Over the past year, the amount of prize money in tournaments for various online games has exceeded $100 million, and about a third of this money was distributed to players in Dota 2, which will be discussed in the article. Now Dota champions receive salaries of 15-20 thousand euros.

People don't mind paying for games. In 2017, game development companies earned more than $100 billion. Moreover, games that are distributed for free make good money at the box office. The world's most popular free-to-play game, League of Legends, earned $2.1 billion, while its competitor, Dota 2, earned $406 million.

$100 billion

makes up the games market in 2017. Since 2012 it has grown by more than $30 billion

The logic is this: having paid once, the player expects to get the entire game and is not going to pay any more. And the developer, who lured the player at a price of 0 rubles, can offer him additional goods and services, often for money.

Someone wants their virtual warrior to have a rare sword - and he shells out $16,000 for it, someone buys a virtual Amsterdam for $50,000, and others are ready to shell out $6 million for an entire planet. But most of these goods are an alternative color of the hero's hat, shining armor, a different color and type of weapon. The cost of such cosmetic changes is small: from a few rubles to several hundred. Developers rely on sales volumes.

For many, games are a real second life, where they also want to impress with their unusual appearance, weapons and virtual home. For them, a $1,000 knife in a game about a confrontation between terrorists and special forces is the same status symbol as a new iPhone or an expensive foreign car.

Release of "Dota 2"

In 2011, Valve Corporation released the game Dota 2 in beta version. The essence of the game is the confrontation between two teams. Each team has its own base, surrounded by defensive buildings. To win, you need to destroy the central building at the enemy base.

Each team has five people, they control different heroes with a set of unique abilities. Heroes differ in appearance; it can be changed using in-game items - skins. In the same way, the appearance of the courier who brings useful things from the base to the hero is changed. For example, instead of a standard donkey, you can use a talking chest, a flying dog, a small robot or an unimaginable beast.

You can get a skin or item in several ways - buy from the developers in the in-game store, buy from other players on the trading platform or exchange from hand to hand, or, with great luck, get it after playing the game.

The developers sell new gaming fashion items in the in-game store; there is also a second-hand store based on the Steam gaming trading platform. Here players sell unwanted items and receive money for them minus a 13% commission. The money is credited to the internal Steam wallet - you cannot withdraw money from it, but you can spend it on other items on the trading platform or buy a new game.

My friend and I actively played Dota 2, so we had a good understanding of item fashion. We knew what was popular and therefore expensive.

Exchange of items in the game

Previously, items that could drop to a player after a match could be exchanged or sold immediately. That's what everyone did.

Items in Dota 2 are valued depending on their rarity. The higher the rarity, the less likely it was to get the item after the game and the more valuable it was.

My friend and I played a lot, and we had a large variety of items, including rare and mythical ones. We began to trade them, like currency in an exchange office: they offered to buy some rare thing from us for 7-8 less rare ones, and then looked for people from whom we could exchange it back at a more favorable rate.

On each transaction we earned 2-3 things, which in terms of rubles was quite a bit, less than 10 rubles. But this allowed us to expand our range, offer customers something that would be interesting to them, improving our position in price negotiations.

The exchange of things was very developed: the game was gaining popularity, people discussed it on forums and on social networks, boasted about their things, and were jealous of others. Players preferred exchanges to purchases on the trading platform - then they did not have to pay a commission.

The developers turned out some items so beautiful that the exchange rate for them soared from the standard 5-7 items of the previous level to 10, 20, and so on. We tried to monitor trends and proactively trade such items from people who did not realize their potential value.

After the game, a chest could also fall out; now they have already been taken out of the game. The chests also contained a certain set of items - rare or not so rare. Chests were opened with keys, after opening the key was destroyed. Keys were always needed, and they had their own stable rate - 70 rubles apiece, which is how much they cost in the in-game store.

Keys were the unofficial currency of Dota 2. Everyone knew how much they cost, and based on this, they calculated the cost of unique things. If a rare courier was sold on the trading platform for 1,500 rubles, you could write to the seller and offer 21 keys for the item - 21 × 70 R = 1470 R. And also ask for a discount - so that he does not have to pay a commission from the trading platform.

Withdrawing money from the game

Rare things that my friend and I found and traded in the game, we exchanged them for keys. Using the keys, we began to withdraw virtual money from the Steam wallet into real life. In the game store, one key cost 70 rubles, and we offered to buy them from us cheaper - for 50-60 rubles. Clients were found on gaming forums and in groups on social networks.

The market was just emerging, and at first people didn’t trust us: what if they transfer money, but we don’t hand over the keys? But we valued our reputation and never cheated. After each transaction, we asked for feedback, people usually agreed. This is how we earned a reputation and regular customers.

The item that changed the game

In 2012, we began to look closely at a new interesting subject. We were not mistaken - and about a year later it became the new currency of Dota 2. Here's how it happened.

There is a lot of competition on Steam now. You have to compete in reaction speed not only with other courier hunters, but also with bots. The programs automatically analyze the most popular items and buy them back if the price is attractive. Because of this, we are less likely to buy out interesting couriers - our main source of income.

Valve is making a lot of efforts to ensure that the marketplace is not used for speculation: there is a delay of a week between the purchase of an item and the opportunity to put it up for sale, and the endlessly scrolling feed of new products on the site, where it was convenient to look for good deals, has disappeared. Items that may drop after a match can no longer be sold or exchanged.

As part of the fight against bots and violations of the license agreement, Valve has banned the accounts of violators. Bot owners lost access to items with a total value of about $1 million that were in the inventories of blocked accounts

We had to slow down. Now we sell games mainly to friends and acquaintances, receiving about 10 thousand a month for each. Our group on Vkontakte has retrained as an entertainment group.

But the general principles described in the article still work. You can earn money this way in Dota 2, CS:GO, PUBG and other games, items from which are available on the trading platform.

How to make money on the Steam trading platform

1. Become a fan, follow news and trends.
2. Look for unusual things on the marketplace. If an item has a standard price, but differs in a certain property, effect or description, you can make money on it.
3. You can withdraw money from your wallet by selling games.
4. If you take the time to learn how to code, you can write a bot that will browse the marketplace for you, but abusing bot trading may be considered a violation of the license agreement.
5. Be prepared for your account to be blocked and for you to lose everything.

IN Steam there is such a service as trading platform. There you can sell your inventory items for real money. At the moment, you can put up for sale some items from Team Fortress 2 And Dota 2, and coupons, gifts(For example, Dota 2) and so on. From items Dota 2 you can sell chests, keys, eggs, tickets, essences, shortcuts, battle bonuses and items that have status Genuine(List of items Genuine you can see).

So, if you haven't already Dota 2, but you really want to play, then you can purchase the game on the trading platform. Invites have a price of 20 kopecks and above. Very cheap, isn't it?

What if you have a ton of these invites and you no longer know what to do with them? No problem, you can sell them on the trading platform! At a price of 20-25 kopecks, invites are bought quite quickly.

How to purchase a Dota 2 invite

How to put up a Dota 2 invite for sale

By clicking on the picture you will see it in full size.

Buy something on trading platform only possible using funds in your account. Steam supports several payment methods: WebMoney, Yandex money, Qiwi, Visa And MasterCard, but the fact is that with the help of these payment systems you can top up your wallet balance only in amounts of 150, 300, 750, 1500 and 3000 rubles. If you want to top up your balance, say, with an amount less than 150 rubles, you can use almost any payment terminal.

The site is a regular market where a player can sell this or that item from various Steam games, in this case I will focus on.

Briefly about...

I'm one of those players who likes to collect sets for different characters, it may be stupid, but the process itself is fascinating. Naturally, waiting for the whole set to drop for you is stupid and unrealistic. Therefore, I quickly found ways to exchange and obtain new items. Having chosen the ones that are acceptable for yourself? I started collecting and settled on:

• - Standard trading platform, easy to use (the advantage is quick search and work in this site)
• - Everything is more interesting here, in addition to the standard trading platform, there is also a Sweepstakes, but it’s not money that is being bet, but clothes in Dota
• - That’s exactly what we’ll talk about, there are no exchanges here, only buying and selling (If I didn’t exchange the things I needed on the first two sites, then I sold the unnecessary or repeated items and bought the ones I needed)

Process

Sale

We go to the main page (Go to Steam if you are not logged in) click " ", in the menu that appears, select the desired game, in our case Dota, click on the item from the inventory and Click " ". Now we need to decide on the selling price; you can find out the current price of an item like this:

• Open in a new tab
• Enter the name of the item we want to sell into the search -

The lowest price at which the Item is already being sold is displayed there, in my case 208.04 rubles. Now we return to the first tab and in the " " field enter a number so that it turns out to be 208.04 (or you can set the price lower) Thus, in the event of a sale, 180 rubles will be credited to your account for which you can purchase the necessary sets, keys for exchanges, open chests or buy the necessary clothes.

Purchase

If you need to buy items from the entire set, then enter the full name of one part of the set into the Search, thereby the search will give us not a separate item, but the whole set.

Helpful information:

• Selling things on sale is not profitable, as there is a large commission (15% if I’m not mistaken)
• Do not open chests, the chance of dropping the necessary items is small
• You can buy keys, sell them and bring them to real life
• With the money you earn from selling things, you can also buy games, tickets to tournaments, etc. from Steam.
• Use the search on trading platforms more often, some people don’t know about this and may want an item of clothing for 5 rubles, and in return give an item of clothing for 15-20 (also a benefit)
• You can also sell Steam emoticons, cards, backgrounds.