[HoN/DotA] Let's Play~!! - Page 1450

On August 02 2011 12:19 Taco_Bueno wrote:
^ People like you are so dramatic

I DON'T GET ONE HERO, BALANCE IS ALL GONE, I CAN'T BE COMPETATIVE WITHOUT THIS ONE HERO.

Jesus just stop playing if it bothers you so much. But no, all the nerds whining about this will still log in everyday.

On August 02 2011 12:50 wonderwall wrote:
In terms of competitive play nothing has changed anyway. Early Access heroes are automatically turned off in tournament mode. I wouldn't be surprised if S2 got inspiration for early access from the competitive scene actually. New heroes were always autobanned/never picked for a few weeks to a month after release while people tested them out in inhouses and pub games, early access seems similar.

On August 02 2011 12:58 semantics wrote:
lol international dota 2 championship a championship for a game that will have a somewhat open beta sometime this year and then be released somehow. Spend 1.6+ ish million on a "tournament" get the attention of people that have seen nothing of the game but 4 pictures not even screen shots just concept art.

On August 02 2011 12:57 bearcatter wrote:
Has anyone seen the announcement for the first ever tournament for Dota2? It was just announced over at dota2.com with 16 teams being invited from all over the world with a prize pool of 1 million USD. That sounds so epic!!!

www.dota2.com

Edit: Ninja post before me

On August 02 2011 13:02 semantics wrote:

it's not at all epic, there is no real sense of tournament what was qualifiers? why weren't we informed before hand? Got nothing but top 16 to watch? Hell who ever seen this game before?

Fuck if duke nukem forever release a "tournament" before it's release of the game and spend it's advertisement money on prize money then known fps competitors would that be epic? No it would just be lame, it's like a dream match without people outside of following dota knowing who the pros are. It's nothing to go on except hoping that the game looks good wtf hype is that. Doesn't make the game any better this is just cheap tricks into getting attention for a game in which they have built 0 hype over the year because they are too lazy to post any sort of updates.

On August 02 2011 13:12 semantics wrote:
1 million can be alot or very little depending on what value normally spends so just putting that up as a form of psudo advertisement means nothing i mean the nation wide commercials for portal 2 probably cost them that for developing the commercial and running it for like 2 weeks+ in semi prime time spots on several cable networks including the shit ton of advertisement on cartoon network. 1 million may seem like alot to a small company like riot or s2 but to value it's cup cakes. If they can pull in the user base it's a worth while investment.

On August 02 2011 13:18 GazeRocker wrote:


Yea, you are correct in a sense to Valve themselves the prize money is not a lot lol... but when you benchmark this prize money to previously held DotA competitions (even those in China i think)...this amount is pretty insane LOL...

On August 02 2011 13:21 semantics wrote:

But it's not the same, this is a closed group competing in something that as far as qualifiers go, was did we invite you to test our game. It's not the same as something say evo, the money is great because they are just using that large number to grab headlines, but the prestige is not there i mean in the end can you call team X world champions to a game that isn't even out? How hallow does that means when it's world champions between like 10. people that played the game or w.e

On August 02 2011 11:06 bkrow wrote:

Meh can easily argue there is no in-game advantage; Monkey King isn't stupidly OP that it gives you auto win. TBH i don't have to many issues with it; Monkey King wouldn't be released for a month but at least we get to see him in the game because of early access.

On August 02 2011 13:21 semantics wrote:

But it's not the same, this is a closed group competing in something that as far as qualifiers go, was did we invite you to test our game. It's not the same as something say evo, the money is great because they are just using that large number to grab headlines, but the prestige is not there i mean in the end can you call team X world champions to a game that isn't even out? How hallow does that means when it's world champions between like 10. people that played the game or w.e

On August 02 2011 13:29 JeeJee wrote:


Huh? Nobody can seriously argue that there's no advantage. MK doesn't have to be OP at all. As long as he's not so horrible that there's literally no situation where picking him is a good idea, then having an option of picking him is an advantage, no matter how small.

On August 02 2011 12:24 GazeRocker wrote:
Oh mah gawd,

Alright,
Coming back to DotA 2

On August 02 2011 13:39 Kupon3ss wrote:


The teams are the best in the world at dota, thus, since dota 2 is almost a direct port, they'd be presumed best at dota 2
If blizzard released SC2 beta only to top Korean teams and we had say a showmatch b4 the release of SC2 with
Flash Bisu Jaedong Stork
and the winner is crowned "King of SC2", would anybody really argue with that?

On August 02 2011 13:39 bkrow wrote:

Yeah i agree; i was trying to get at that i would hope the majority of people really wouldn't care to much - at least we get to see the hero before it is publicly released. A lot along the lines of does it really matter? I just don't see how it impacts the game in any way that isn't inconsequential