Made a post on this a few days ago, some real delusional/homer people in here

Hmm

Those options are, in a word, weak to be honest

This always seemed as a “fuck you” or “do it yourself” of sorts to the players from Valve. 40m was way too large of a prizepool for what the players actually do for the community or valve in terms of promotion and sponsors. This isn’t the NFL or even lower level sports orgs. They don’t have the same branding power outside maybe China.

Valve basically said you think you’re all that? How about we made a prizepool to reflect the communities commitment to the players (current compendium focused on the talent and event) vs a commitment to the community (limited time game modes, cosmetics ect) and the community clearly didn’t give a shit about the players enough to find the prize pool anywhere close to the recent numbers.

Valve gotta eat too, and I think they decided to focus on gameplay and keeping active players playing than juice up the prize pool for the top 0.1% of players.

Def not worth a 3rd to be fair