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Top 5 most outrageous Dota items sold

Here are some of the most expensive items ever sold in Dota 2, though their prices may have come down a bit since then:

5) WETA and Alpine Set rough tie at $1600-$2000

Both the WETA set and Alpine set contains for discontinued items. The WETA set was from a limited run of Dota 2 physical goods that came with digital items, and will no longer enter production. You can see the shop at weta’s page.

Buying it today would cost you about $2k for the set at reddit

The Alpine set became immortal when people complained about having a cowboy ursa in the game that didn’t fit with the lore and was eventually pulled from the store. This suddenly made those with the cowboy set richer in keys overnight.

There was also a period of time were some Alpine items were conjured into existence due to a bug, but that has since been plugged. But this didn’t stop the crash in prices from $2000 to about $600-$700 now. You can read it in further detail here

4) Platinum Baby Roshan $2,000 to $3,000

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE was the social phenomenon when people thought Diretide was a yearly event, but Valve was actually planning something else. It ended up rolling through the internet pulling in innocent twitters like Volvo before Valve “gave diretide back”.

Much like the first diretide, the platinum baby roshan is a price given for the first few people to complete the event.

Note that there are also certain “free floating” platinum baby roshans crafted into existence from a bug that was quickly fixed.

You can see it’s still holding steady going over $2000 here

3) High End Legacy Couriers $6,000-$12,000

There are quite a few couriers that have seen an end of run, but these particular legacy couriers are the cream of the crop in rarity. Ethereal flames are one of the particle effects for the courier paths, but the colors were all created using an old color generator that ended up making them very rare and very valuable.

To get your mittens on one of them, you would have to be there in the early days of Dota 2, as well as being one of the lucky few to unbox them. When their particle effects were gemified however, they ended up losing a chunk of their value, as the gem could then be removed.

You can check a compilation of these old couriers at legacypedia

2) Golden Baby Roshan $13,000

The Golden baby roshan was a prize given to the people who downed roshan the fastest in the first ever diretide event. (not to be confused with give diretide) The golden version is the grandaddy of the platinum version. Similarly, the first cycle is the most valuable, with each succeeding cycle going down in price.

In the video comments, the bounty is about 5500 keys to 6000.

Unlike the ethereal flames and legacy particle couriers, the roshans retain much of their value even when their effects became gems and removable.

It has also led to a certain fusion:

1) Legacy Ethereal Flames Wardog $38,000

This is the most expensive dota 2 item to have ever been sold. It is also likely to be the last. At this point, it is also probably worth only $3000. So what’s the story?

This is a particular variant of the usually rare couriers that were selling for around $6k to $10k+ then as they were in a sense out of production. There were certain shades of the ethereal flames that were particularly scarce, and those ended up fetching more.

Near the end of 2013, PAADA, owner of pain gaming, sold it to a mystery chinese buyer, probably another owner of the China pro-gaming teams. It fetched a whopping $38,000, and made news everywhere, as the priced of a courier outstripped that of a car. It even made it to Forbes!

But this was not to be for long as Steam stepped in with their gems patch, “cheapening” the value of the flames as the gems could now be extracted from the canine hosts. Possibly, it fell to the $3000-$400 range. The price has since recovered slightly, but the diretide gem patch has probably scalded the hands of many traders.

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But, really? For that much?

Most people will never see this kind of money in one place, let alone find themselves in a position to trade digital gaming items for a stash that size. But, leave it to the internet to show you what the concept of a value means to some people.

EVE Online has seen some expensive trades, and losses. One ship valued at over $11,000 (yes, in real USD) was tragically lost, and it wasn’t the first. Extreme, absurdly high prices have been tied to digital items, characters and currency for sometime. This isn’t the first time huge stacks of hard cash have turned into pixels.

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Known on Reddit as PAADA, the lucky seller posted the item to /r/Dota2Trade just yesterday, with a buyout price of $38,000. He set an ending date over a week away. Within 24 hours, the item sold at that buyout cost. Not much is known about the buyer, or the seller for that matter. Nonetheless, this transaction says a great deal about the current state of online marketplaces, digital worth, and the concept of trades and investment in such distinct places.

So, what was sold exactly? An Ethereal Flames Pink War Dog. The hell is that? It’s a courier in Valve’s Dota 2, which is an important part of the gameplay. As it’s very ill-advised to go back to your home base yourself in the game, this handy character is a player-controlled ally that will carry items back and forth, while you keep on fighting and defending your tower. Normally, the courier appears to be a little donkey. This is no donkey–it’s a pink dog.

Similar to hats and apparel in Valve’s free-to-play cash cow Team Fortress 2, you can buy different skins to change the appearance of both you or your courier. And just like TF2, items like this have a chance of dropping.

In the case of unusual couriers, there’s only a 1-2% chance of finding one in a Treasure Chest (which you have to pay to unlock). Compound this with the rarity of each element of the item, and you have some truly astronomical chances.

And so what makes this Ethereal Flames Pink War Dog so special that it’s worth a retail manager’s annual salary? Well, there are three main elements that make this courier special.

• First, it’s a War Dog skin, which is a Mythical (purple) drop, so it’s pretty rare to begin with.
• Second, it’s pink. Valve only introduced 10 different colors for skins, and pink was not one of them.
• Third, the Ethereal Flames part is an aesthetic effect that is also incredibly rare to come across.

The end result is an item so unique that only a handful at most exist– four at most.

Summon this courier in your game, and you’re insta-famous . Or at least you’ve got a pretty awesome skin. For most people, it wouldn’t be worth what’s in their wallet, much less their savings account. But, for many people out there, the value of items like these is in the experience, the prestige, the rarity, the pride, and the immense enjoyment they’ll get out of many hundreds of hours of play with that pink (not so) little guy. Not to mention an odd, but wise investment, as the courier remains tradable.

You can find the original EF Pink War Dog posting on the Dota 2 Trade subreddit here .