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Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Netherlands12045 Posts
October 15 2013 21:59 GMT
#1
"There are so much things to do other than playing DotA2"

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Just a moment ago I told myself that. My life is busy now...

Beside normal school/work stuff, I just started an indie game project after many discussions with my roommate about the gaming industry. This happened 2 weeks ago.

My internet went out for no less than 6.5 days since then. That gave me the chance of finishing A Storm of Swords and moving on to A Feast for Crows. I also did a quick review on C++ as well as get myself used to the SFML library of which I plan to use for my game project.

Along the way, books and articles and online courses popped up. Computer Graphic, Machine Learning, HTML5 application.... all suddenly became so relevant, so interesting. I found myself either diving into a sea of undocumented code or drowning in the fancy vocabulary that A Song of Ice and Fire has to provide.

I missed twitch, I also missed dota and I really hate it to let my progression in ixDL go to waste. But the greed of having your own game 'engine', the thirst for rights to criticize other game developers are bottomless pits. And I am falling deeper.

Cant talk much about my dream since ideas keep materializing one after the other just like animals mating post winter. I will keep my goal short and reachable though, I must. Assets will be the pain in the ass and I will be using a ton of place holders which could be found on open source communities.

In fact, why am I even wasting time on writing this blog? I could be reading A Feast of Crows right about now... Hope Valve gona come up with something good so I could go back and play DotA

**
Im daed. Follow me @TL_NB
Entertaining
Profile Joined September 2007
Canada793 Posts
October 15 2013 23:46 GMT
#2
Dota needs a patch badly. So many heroes that can single handedly ruin your game. I can see how stopping playing dota will give you so much more time, 7560 hours? thats insane.
don_kyuhote
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
3006 Posts
October 16 2013 00:20 GMT
#3
Wow thats a lot of hours of Dota. Btw, I miss playing with you NB.
TUNNEL ME HOST! I'M LAGGING!
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
ZeaL.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5955 Posts
October 16 2013 00:22 GMT
#4
Ahhhh if only I could be in college again... to have the time to plop down 7500 hours. With work and all I feel like 1200 hours played is a lot but then it's still nothing compared to what you can do when you have no obligations to anyone or anything in the world but yourself...
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 16 2013 00:38 GMT
#5
On October 16 2013 09:22 ZeaL. wrote:
Ahhhh if only I could be in college again... to have the time to plop down 7500 hours. With work and all I feel like 1200 hours played is a lot but then it's still nothing compared to what you can do when you have no obligations to anyone or anything in the world but yourself...


Ever since College I've had to stop playing starcraft .

Too busy with studies.
HeeroFX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2704 Posts
October 16 2013 00:41 GMT
#6
That is tooo much dota. I have like 300 hours, and I thought that was a lot. I go through periods where I love dota but than I go through periods where i hate everyone who plays it. Although I am in my last of year of college, I usually will play something for an hour each night, unless I got exams.
Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
October 16 2013 00:52 GMT
#7
This has to be fake.
Juliette
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States6003 Posts
October 16 2013 00:54 GMT
#8
how much of that is idling and how much is in game? goddamn

midterm week has significantly decreased my playing time T_T
OKAY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE I SEE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
ProV1
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States980 Posts
October 16 2013 00:55 GMT
#9
2500 more hours and you're considered a master at the game.
Esoterikk
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada1256 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-16 01:36:27
October 16 2013 00:56 GMT
#10
On October 16 2013 08:46 Entertaining wrote:
Dota needs a patch badly. So many heroes that can single handedly ruin your game. I can see how stopping playing dota will give you so much more time, 7560 hours? thats insane.


Dota just needs something in general, it used to be back in 2007 that the mod was enough content and a lot of veterans will say "I played Dota for so long without X" but fact of the matter is the gaming world is different today. Other games, very fun games, exist and while Dota was interesting for a while Valve is doing an extremely piss poor job of keeping the game fresh, I would be even happy with Parity and small patches but we are getting zero patches and we still don't have parity after 3 years.

I try not to be "that guy" who complains about Valve and Ded gaem and all that but it's hard not to be frustrated watching Valve do so little in the past year.

According to Cyborgmatt Valve is going to focus on big patches from now on so only time will tell if they deliver.
Pseudoku
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada1279 Posts
October 16 2013 02:01 GMT
#11
Damn, I've only got around 2000 hours of Dota 2
Logic fails because we are lazy.
NB
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Netherlands12045 Posts
October 16 2013 02:34 GMT
#12
On October 16 2013 09:52 Salv wrote:
This has to be fake.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/liquidnb

ha :D
Im daed. Follow me @TL_NB
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
October 16 2013 04:25 GMT
#13
And I thought my 2k hours was bad...
Cyx.
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada806 Posts
October 16 2013 05:20 GMT
#14
On October 16 2013 09:52 Salv wrote:
This has to be fake.

Don't say that, I'm at 5k now
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29903 Posts
October 16 2013 06:25 GMT
#15
http://dotabuff.com/players/72468268

4500 games played, that's not fake :D
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Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
October 16 2013 06:35 GMT
#16
Man, I remember thinking I was overdoing it when I hit triple digits.

....now I'm close to four.
Shottaz
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom414 Posts
October 16 2013 07:20 GMT
#17
Good luck with your game.

Might want to ease off the DoTA though, as a childless working adult, it would take me over 18 years to rack up that playtime!
Praise the sun! \o/
Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
October 16 2013 11:37 GMT
#18
That's some dedication NB
11/5/14 CATACLYSM | The South West's worst Falco main
NB
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Netherlands12045 Posts
October 16 2013 18:34 GMT
#19
On October 16 2013 16:20 Shottaz wrote:
Good luck with your game.

Might want to ease off the DoTA though, as a childless working adult, it would take me over 18 years to rack up that playtime!

I would never refer to myself as an adult even if i turn 50..... Keep the spirit young... Feelin like 16 :3
Im daed. Follow me @TL_NB
00Zarathustra
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Bolivia419 Posts
October 17 2013 00:34 GMT
#20
Man that's 315 days spent entirely playing dota!!! wtf!!
Zarathustra "You can't spell aNal_Rape without Nal_Ra"
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12364 Posts
October 17 2013 06:42 GMT
#21
how do you have so much time playing dota X_X
I thought me spending ~400 hours on disgaea was pretty scary.

you'd better take good care of your shoulders, eyes and back.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-17 07:08:03
October 17 2013 07:07 GMT
#22
On October 17 2013 09:34 00Zarathustra wrote:
Man that's 315 days spent entirely playing dota!!! wtf!!

Which is not all that massive compared to the playtime on the main character of dudes who have been playing WoW since vanilla.

Then again, the fact that it's even being compared to playtime in WoW means it's quite massive considering when the game was released.
Kipsate
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands45349 Posts
October 17 2013 07:21 GMT
#23
If you assume a game is an hour each(which is long, I would give it 45min) then you have spend a ton of time afking ingame too.
WriterXiao8~~
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
October 17 2013 07:25 GMT
#24
On October 17 2013 16:21 Kipsate wrote:
If you assume a game is an hour each(which is long, I would give it 45min) then you have spend a ton of time afking ingame too.

Doesn't have to be afk though, could be watching tournaments etc.
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