FREE TO PLAY is available now:

Items will be available on March 19th, 2014 at the Dota 2 Store and Steam

The Free to Play Pack will also be available for purchase on Steam and the Dota 2 Store, and 25% of the sales will be distributed to the players featured in the film as well as the contributors. The Free to Play Pack will include the following:

Free to Play will be available for free on Steam March 19th, 2014!

FREE TO PLAY is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, E Sports has surged in popularity to become one of the most widely-practiced forms of competitive sport today. A million dollar tournament changed the landscape of the gaming world and for those elite players at the top of their craft, nothing would ever be the same again. Produced by Valve, the film documents the challenges and sacrifices required of players to compete at the highest level.

A fascinating, eye-opening look at how video games are becoming the next-generation of sports.

—Geoff Keighley, Spike TV

Beautifully captured and wonderfully executed; Free to Play is a film about heart, passion and what drives us. Surely, it will become the definitive E Sports documentary, but really, it resonates well beyond. Free to Play is a remarkable film.

—James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot, Indie Game: The Movie

A fascinating and humanising insight into the world of E Sports. It documents a tipping point.

“Free to Play,” a new documentary released by the game company Valve and available for free online via YouTube or Valve’s Steam game-distribution platform, is worth a watch.

Surprises are in store at every corner, and if you don’t follow the competitive DOTA2 scene and haven’t yet learned how the 2011 International turned out, you’re in for a treat.

Free to Play is not just a documentary for Dota fans; it’s for fans of people, their aspirations, and the struggles they’ll inevitably face.

“Free to Play” is an incredibly colorful and realistic piece of work that left this viewer wondering if there are any limits to what eSports can accomplish.

Underneath the glitz and glam of promoting Dota 2 and eSports in general is a film that has a lot of heart. Not because the filmmakers tried to portray the players as these awe inspiring and untouchable individuals. They portrayed them as people.

The world of e-sports and the people in it are interesting, likable and incredibly dedicated.

I’d highly recommend you check out Free to Play for yourself , no matter how much of a gamer you are. I loved it, and my parents loved it.

Not just a good videogame documentary, but one of the best documentaries. Period.