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.
At least they were honest that they were not going to focus that much on the compendium
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.