{"id":29543,"date":"2025-08-08T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/dota-2-player-count-spike-proves-skins-trump-esports-for-casuals\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:56:42","slug":"dota-2-player-count-spike-proves-skins-trump-esports-for-casuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/dota-2-player-count-spike-proves-skins-trump-esports-for-casuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 Player Count Spike Proves Skins Trump Esports for Casuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quartero\u2019s Curios event has triggered a big spike in Dota 2\u2019s player count, and Valve\u2019s strategy of isolating The International from the skin economy is justified yet again. The International 2025 is fast approaching, and the period after the tournament is traditionally the most popular time of the year to play Dota&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/dota-2s-player-count-peak-proves\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quartero\u2019s Curios event has triggered a big spike in Dota 2\u2019s player count, and Valve\u2019s strategy of isolating The International from the skin economy is justified yet again. The International 2025 is fast approaching, and the period after the tournament is traditionally the most popular time of the year to play Dota&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}