My lack of emotion <| sep |> essentially you are implying a 1 . 3 % inflation since Valve ' s last data release is pretty much a negligible effect on the average Dota player . Obviously i don ' t have numbers on how many bought account exist but I think my numbers were quite lenient . The way I see it the effect on the average player is next to nothing . The extremes would be affected differently . One thing I also didn ' t mention because i thought it was negligible was the fact that every time a team with an abandon wins a game they actually produce a net loss into the system . Meaning at the end of the game team A won 100 mmr and lost 25 through the abandoned player and team B lost 125 mmr . Thus producing a net loss of 50 mmr for the game . This would actually help to counter inflation but is very very rare .