Episode 3 - Chests, Streamers, roles, drama and love for intros!

**StabbyMcgee** (0:00)
So, in 3, 2, 1

**Tom** (0:01)
Do we hear the intro music, or is that added to post edit?

**Rick** (0:05)
Are you seriously asking?

**StabbyMcgee** (0:08)
I'll just give it a countdown then.

**Rick** (0:10)
This is the intro, we're here.

**StabbyMcgee** (0:13)
What type of autism is fucking going through your mind right now?

**Tom** (0:18)
Well, when I listen back, I like the music.

**StabbyMcgee** (0:24)
You just need to know that the music is going to be on in the final. Fuck it, that will do for the intro to Send Noobs Dota 2 Podcast.
Your professional outfit. So, episode 3 We had to have Tom back. Yeah, from Turkey, we had to wait for him.

**Tom** (0:53)
Much appreciated, had a really nice holiday. I missed out on the tournament, I think, my strafe app.

**StabbyMcgee** (1:00)
One sec. Just a sec, Tom. Rick, did you just ask him if he had a nice holiday?
No. I didn't ask him.

**Tom** (1:07)
He said Turkey, so I was just like, yeah, fuck you guys.

**StabbyMcgee** (1:14)
You made some League of Legends players as well out there, didn't you?

**Tom** (1:16)
That's right. The man that scratches anything on a tile, League of Legends.

**Rick** (1:25)
Did you ask him what the hell he thought he was doing? Trying to palm that shit off on you?

**Tom** (1:29)
No, but he had a good sales track to access.

**StabbyMcgee** (1:32)
He's got a closet full of him now. A League of Legends player.

**Tom** (1:36)
The missus fell for his sales technique, which was more or less, please.

**Rick** (1:42)
Oh, really?

**Tom** (1:42)
He was like a little five-year-old kid, just got in from school, and that's his begging technique.

**StabbyMcgee** (1:47)
Please. Moving on to the actual...

**Rick** (1:53)
Hold on, are you telling us about the tournament that you missed on the Strayfowl?

**StabbyMcgee** (1:56)
I'm bored out of it.

**Tom** (1:57)
Yeah, and I was rudely interrupted.

**StabbyMcgee** (1:59)
You started talking about your fucking little Turkish meat.

**Tom** (2:01)
All right, let's get on it, find out about it.

**StabbyMcgee** (2:04)
So, first topic we're going to be talking about tonight is, whether or not we think Valve is milking money from the community with its compendium, with its Dota+, with its collector's cash, treasures, and all the other treasures that it keeps pumping out. Is it just saturating it now with this type of merchandise, and is it going to, you know, bite them in the arse in the long run when they just over saturate with shit items?

**Rick** (2:35)
No.
Go on then, elaborate. No, I don't think so, because people constantly want the next best cool-looking item in Dota, and there's already a billion shitty items for people that you don't really care about. You don't want any of them. What you want is the immortals, etc. for your favorite heroes. So, you know, or an arcana. So as long as they keep pumping those out, people are going to be happy. And how many arcanas are there in the game now? There aren't many.
And how many heroes are in the game? There's over 100, so they're nowhere near done milking it yet.

**StabbyMcgee** (3:14)
No.
But I quite like the Collector's Cache. The Collector's Cache 2, that got released the other day. I think that's really good. I think it's giving out some decent items.
And I like, there's a couple of decent items in the actual main role, and then the actual, the rares, ultra rares and all that. Like the Night Stalker one and the Enigma one look really, really good. I think having items like that sort of adds value to, not value to it, but it'll make people want to buy it because they'll buy the chest to try and get them really cool shiny ones. It's like Pokemon cards or whatever when you're at school. You want that shiny one. You want that Charizard, don't you? So people will pay the money for the chest. So I think to collect the one you've got good chests, that give good items and, you know, not just being thrown together by Johnny H5.

**Tom** (4:10)
Dota is free, right?

**StabbyMcgee** (4:13)
Dota is free, yeah.

**Tom** (4:14)
Free to play. Yeah. So when it does come around to payday, I will treat myself.
You know, I spoil the game. I've got my Dota Plus membership. Better or worse, you know, I like the sounds, the badge progress, hero progress, the relics. I can prove that I've dupe awards now.

**Rick** (4:32)
I still don't believe you.

**Tom** (4:34)
Well, I've done over 320
320 Shadow shame, that's all.