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Tercotta
Canada402 Posts
On December 12 2011 16:35 Zlasher wrote: For those looking how to mod the items http://www.dotafire.com/dota-2/guide/custom-recommended-items-63 Or better yet, here is a GUI interface for drag and drop build changes. Much easier IMO. | ||
CountChocula
Canada2068 Posts
On December 12 2011 17:54 Tercotta wrote: Or better yet, here is a GUI interface for drag and drop build changes. Much easier IMO. ? How can you trust that mysterious blue blob whose face keeps changing shape? | ||
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ItsMeDomLee
Canada2732 Posts
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leser
Croatia239 Posts
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Hakker
United States1360 Posts
Theres also an issue of getting the viewership in the first place. Unless you are a famous tournament player or a really really entertaining person IRL (or a girl) dont expect to have any stable viewership at all, and both jtv and own3d have requirements before they will contract anyone. I think its a minimum average of 100 viewers and a certain pageview count. Most people dont just show 1 ad after each game. Moba players typically run 10+ ads in between games because queue times are pretty long at higher levels, as well as ads during loading. If you do that as a new streamer though I would imagine people would get pretty irritable. | ||
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Offhand
United States1869 Posts
You're also trying to get into a professional scene for a game that's not even out yet. Comparing your existing abilities with those also in the beta is terrible way to judge how you'd do in a competitive scene for an actual game (people from the SC2 beta that are still noteworthy players, HuK, Idra, Tester... maybe a few other Koreans). So even if you do kick ass in the beta and get signed by someone, you run the risk of being blown out of the water once all the competition shows up. | ||
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s_side
United States700 Posts
I regale this tale of sorrow with you as I down this Campbell’s Select Chunky: Potatoes, Broccoli and Cream soup because I am morbidly obese and ate 13 peanut butter cookies earlier. EternalEnvy, the super nerd from HoN, composed of lesser nerds’ failed dreams and disheveled body parts, has decided he will be leaving REAL LIFE and dedicate his time to play DotA. Read how serious this guy is. It’s a depressing series of events. "I’ve decided that before starting the 2nd half of 2nd year, to go on “leave” and start playing DotA seriously." Seems like he’s tossing his life away the same way Chaox of LoL did. Anyone that played with EternalEvny realizes how seriously he takes gaming. Sit around the camp fire (if your knees are capable of getting you down that far, fat pub) because it’s time for another story straight out of the DRD vault, which is choke full of classics. I once, to grief Daggius in a scrimmage, bought a hatchet on Accursed and went top to fight for farm, and instantly got called out for it and the first 10 minutes of the game was about why hatchet on melees like Accursed is bad. We lost the game, but the cry was so hard I had nothing to say. This is EternalEnvy " Some people have further extrapolated this to 4 games/hour in SC2 and thus $8 every hour. This worries me because DotA games last much longer" You, too, can toss your entire like aspirations away for 8$ an hour! Read this CLASSIC rationalization: It’s only a year or two of my life. rofl. And I swear those mother fuckers snuck a few mushrooms in this soup, too. http://www.dotallyrad.com/2011/12/ex-drddwi-player-eternalenvy-proves-he-has-no-life/ | ||
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Spiffeh
United States830 Posts
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
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SkimGuy
Canada709 Posts
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ZiegFeld
351 Posts
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Drock
United States305 Posts
On December 13 2011 11:05 SkimGuy wrote: What defines success for an e-sport is the amount of eyes (spectators) that are willing to watch it since that's the only thing a sponsor cares about. RTS games like Starcraft will always beat Dota simply because it is a better game to watch/follow, which in the end leads to more viewers and more success Um, actually LoL had over 1 million viewers(at the same time!) for one tournament. To my knowledge SC2 has never had that many viewers watching 1 stream. SC2 obviously has a more steady stream of tournaments and streams. But games like DotA, HoN, and LoL could easily be more popular than SC2. A major reason being that it is a team game, and a lot of people love team games (i.e. football, baseball, basketball, etc.) I myself prefer to watch SC2, but it is shortsighted and naive to say that RTS will always beat MOBA's. The best time is now to pursue a dream in eSports. It's on the upswing again and there is money to be made. As the OP said he can always go back to school, but will he always be in a position to pursue this dream? You only live once, take chances and make mistakes, that's what makes life worth living. | ||
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On December 13 2011 11:15 Drock wrote: Um, actually LoL had over 1 million viewers(at the same time!) for one tournament. No they didn't. Riot integrates their stream into the game client. Anyone and everyone who was logged in or inside of a game was "watching" the stream, even if they didn't give half of a crap. So if they have some tournament and they got 250,000 people -- I think it's safe to say at least 100-200k don't even know it's going on. So that's a very inflated and inaccurate number there. | ||
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EternaLEnVy
Canada513 Posts
On December 13 2011 11:09 ZiegFeld wrote: I find it funny this post is made during the finals. Cracking under pressure? Evidence shows that the # of facebook posts do go up significantly during exam period. Perhaps my post is a result of that trend? | ||
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Sina92
Sweden1303 Posts
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MaKfejA
Canada117 Posts
On December 13 2011 11:53 Fruscainte wrote: Riot integrates their stream into the game client. No. They provide a link to the stream in the client. The numbers they got are the people who clicked on the link and were actually watching the stream. What you see in the client is basically a .jpg and an attached link. | ||
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quiong
United States268 Posts
Have you learned to pronounce "3" yet? FREE HEROES IN THE JUNGLE!!  | ||
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EternaLEnVy
Canada513 Posts
On December 13 2011 15:08 quiong wrote: if you're the same envy that played with ez.hunting then I remember playing with you many years ago... Have you learned to pronounce "3" yet? FREE HEROES IN THE JUNGLE!! I worked on that, though i still have pronunciation problems with other words :D. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
On December 13 2011 14:15 MaKfejA wrote: No. They provide a link to the stream in the client. The numbers they got are the people who clicked on the link and were actually watching the stream. What you see in the client is basically a .jpg and an attached link. Yeah also, they've never had 1 million viewers at the same time, love when people make up bullshit about stream numbers. Their best was gamescom when they had about 230k concurrents i believe was the max. | ||
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ItsMeDomLee
Canada2732 Posts
On December 13 2011 16:16 Zlasher wrote: Yeah also, they've never had 1 million viewers at the same time, love when people make up bullshit about stream numbers. Their best was gamescom when they had about 230k concurrents i believe was the max. Well it's the same as any MLG report. You can divide whatever number they give you by 100 because that's probably the amount of times each individual person has to refresh. | ||
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