EPTWill SC2 survive DOTA 2? - Page 2
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esla_sol
United States756 Posts
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
tl;dr: no, this is dumb. | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
 if dota2 will truly be more entertaining to watch than starcraft2 then it's a good thing, i love both games. | ||
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CharlieBrownsc
Canada598 Posts
Vanilla-map MOBA can only last so long | ||
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nekuodah
England2409 Posts
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lbmaian
United States689 Posts
I enjoy watching BW/SC2 more than LoL/HoN, but I can get the appeal of LoL/HoN. I just find that the endings of DoTA-like games to far less climactic - there's less tension than in BW/SC2. | ||
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DomiNater
United States527 Posts
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gds
Iceland1391 Posts
I've never saw that game (maybe few seconds here and there), know almsot nothing about it and i want to deflower my eyes with something good if possible. | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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jdseemoreglass
United States3773 Posts
You can give stats if you want, I'm just saying from personal experience the game is really nonexistent for me. | ||
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Hipsv
135 Posts
On September 02 2011 09:47 hyptonic wrote: mobas get more viewers than SC2 already. dota2 got 1.6m~ lol got 200k~ even hon gets 25k sometimes (more than ipl2 and dreamhack) one lol streamer averages 12000 viewers a day. i find it much more entertaining spectating than sc2 tbh. Its a difference of opinions, If you had no idea what either one was about, I figure it would be significantly easier to understand what SC2 was about. MOBA's are complicated team games that rely on a bunch of different mechanics. For example someone who doesn't know might see a tank character with a 2/10/20 record in a game and think they are garbage when they are dying a lot even though they are doing amazing and winning the game for their team, Where as if someone is losing their bases its pretty obvious that they are losing in sc2. | ||
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
On September 02 2011 10:01 gds wrote: Can someone advice me a good VOD of DOTA2 or DOTA to watch please, like a final of a big event or something quite spectacular? I've never saw that game (maybe few seconds here and there), know almsot nothing about it and i want to deflower my eyes with something good if possible. watch in HD | ||
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Oreo7
United States1647 Posts
I also don't think dota games can draw new casual viewers well at all, I think sc2 is funner to watch if you're an utter noob. I also think sc2 is at the same time the deeper game and is very rewarding the more skill you have so yeah. Dota 2 got 1.6m because it was the first time it was unveiled, LoL because of riot promotion and because it's F2P. | ||
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jimbob615
Uruguay455 Posts
sc2 has potential to be big because even a complete noob can relate to big armies colliding with eachother and watching huge battles. its like watching a war. dota is just fantasy crap which people cannot relate to at all without being a hardcore player. | ||
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Engore
United States1916 Posts
On September 02 2011 09:47 hyptonic wrote: mobas get more viewers than SC2 already. dota2 got 1.6m~ lol got 200k~ even hon gets 25k sometimes (more than ipl2 and dreamhack) one lol streamer averages 12000 viewers a day. i find it much more entertaining spectating than sc2 tbh. That's also the first dota 2 tournament ever. LoL doesn't have widely streamed tournaments nor does HoN. While sc2 has tons of content everywhere. Small cups every week/weekend, major tournaments at least twice a month and tons of high level daily streamers. I can't see Dota 2 harping on sc2 that much. Obviously i don't know anything about the community in dota or dota 2 but they don't have Day[9] so gg no re. | ||
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
On September 02 2011 10:45 Engore wrote: That's also the first dota 2 tournament ever. LoL doesn't have widely streamed tournaments nor does HoN. While sc2 has tons of content everywhere. Small cups every week/weekend, major tournaments at least twice a month and tons of high level daily streamers. I can't see Dota 2 harping on sc2 that much. Obviously i don't know anything about the community in dota or dota 2 but they don't have Day[9] so gg no re. well the numbers are not confirmed, and valve is having a hard time even calculating it. It could have been as high as 4 million.. They set up 3 servers in China alone to stream it out. | ||
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
This is like asking if SC2 will survive MvC3 AE. Its an useless question. | ||
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Sandro
897 Posts
Maybe you should just stick to the DOTA forum OP. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
I'd prefer SC2 having a niche dedicated fanbase, just enough for it to be sustainable as an esport, at least in Korea. It's much more enjoyable being a part of such a community than what it is (becoming) now. Seriously fuck mass popularity. Nothing good ever came out of it. | ||
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
My Experience: -Nearly 10 minutes selecting characters -Horrible mics for the casters, the clipping hurt my ears so bad I have to turn the volume way down to the point where I can't hear anything. -Virtually no team colors, can't tell wtf is going on in battles b/c of thiss -The way everyone moves their characters just pisses me off. It's everyone is a mentally retarded old guy on speed walking in circles, back and forth, jerking around everywhere. -The map is too big to tell what is fucking going on -It is over a fucking hour long. And not in a good way, like Rain vs Boxer. If that's the best you can do then you have confirmed my suspicion: The game is utter shit to watch. On a different note tho: How/why are the graphics so cool looking? I thought dota ran through Warcraft III, which obviously has fairly dated graphics and no widescreen support. I'm a noob, don't laugh at me :o | ||
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