Based on item creations in Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2
Valve has paid out $10,215,796 to content creators making items inTeam Fortress 2andDOTA 2. We knew thisfigure already, but what we just found out thanks to Steam Dev Days is that the payouts have gone out to 661 creators for a total amount of 2,349 items that have been created in this ecosystem.
As you can see in the chart, that’s a huge increase from when they opened item crafting to users back in 2010. There are over 17 millionTeam Fortress 2accounts now, with upwards to 500 million total items out there. Over 90% of the items in Team Fortress 2 are by the community, from models, maps, and more.
Oh, and hats. Lots and lots of hats.
On average, ‘Team Fortress 2’ and ‘DOTA 2’ item creators made $15,000 last year[The Verge,Twitter source 1,Twitter source 2]
