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AustinCM
Canada275 Posts
The recent success of dreamhack has shown that the games definitely have some potential and the developers of such games are designing them as eSports, by taking balance as a first priority. I have limited experience with DotA and HoN but I know LoL is really fun and popular and because it can be easily picked up by casuals could it become more popular than our beloved Starcraft 2? | ||
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Samp
Canada783 Posts
They will coexist as two extremely popular games I believe. | ||
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AustinCM
Canada275 Posts
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Captain Peabody
United States3116 Posts
In any event, the two appeal to rather different audiences, and so can co-exist without any friction; one can lead a fan to the other, and both can be enjoyed by one person. The more cooperation and coexistence that goes on between them, the better for ESPORTS in general. It's all good. | ||
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Cosmos
Belgium1077 Posts
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NASAmoose
United States231 Posts
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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KoTakUEurO
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Joseph123
Bulgaria1144 Posts
while in sc2 you need to constantly play or you get worse so for sc2 pro player to play dota = waste of talent but this has a good side you can be competitive at dota by just playing tournaments if you have the required skill and the time wasted is minimal both games are fun and totally different | ||
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AustinCM
Canada275 Posts
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redFF
United States3910 Posts
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PlosionCornu
Italy814 Posts
Besides, Dota has a super high entry requirement, despite of what people may think. Knowing each and every hero and relative abilities is no casual task, therefore is much less of a spectator Esport. Plus I cannot foresee a long term sustainable esport environment for a MOBA game, given what I've already said, plus the fact that the skill ceiling is actually pretty low compared to other games. | ||
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taLbuk
Madagascar1879 Posts
On August 10 2011 03:33 JiYan wrote: its also been discussed before that the dreamhack success was highly inflated due to LoL incorporating the stream into the game itself so that if anyone would log into the game - they would essentially be counted as a viewer. this combined with the fact that there are too many competitors probably hurts its chances of making it as big as sc2. HoN is now f2p and theres dota 2 coming out, i just dont see there being enough stability in their 'scene' to really get a consistent thing like starcraft has had. 100% False, you were NOT counted as a viewer if you logged on League, however the client had a splash page after you logged on, and it pointed to the season one championships, if you clicked go to page, it opened your browser to the ow3ned.tv stream Stop spreading false info. On topic: They are two different types of games, I don't see how people cannot appreciate sc2 along with games like quake and dota. However as seen in the past, discussions like this on TeamLiquid usually just end up with X game vs Starcraft game and which takes more skill. Edit: It also seems people underestimate how easy Sc2 is to pick up, I consider myself a casual player, having never played an RTS before i know myself and many people still picked the game up relatively easy and are currently masters, granted I know that's not even a hard feat, at the biggest difference between the games is the skill CEILING is much higher for Sc2. | ||
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All.In
United States214 Posts
That being said I think SC2 will and should stay top dog in competitive gaming. LOL sells power IMO with their micro transaction system and even with them trying to keep new balanced champions coming out it seems almost impossible to keep the balance. Although some argue the general unbalance makes it balanced. The more good games in tourneys though the merrier IMO. I see no reason SC2 and LOL can't coexist and both be successful. Also I agree that LOL HON DOTA all are much worse spectator games then SC2 just because you have no idea what is happening and who all the Champions are and what they do. SC2 is easy and fun to watch. | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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Sandro
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Lewan72
United States381 Posts
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Lewan72
United States381 Posts
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
the following opinions are all based on very limited information, understanding, and ignorance since I don't really play or follow any MOBA games at all, so correct me if I'm wrong atm, all MOBA games have are stream viewers due to the sheer popularity of the genre things like sponsors, tournament scene, and strong established pro teams are not yet well established, but the potential is definitely there due to possible audience size outside of China, LoL is the frontrunner for an e-sports MOBA because of the size of its player base, but the developer, Riot, needs to add in functions to increase e-sports viability like spectator mode. LoL needs a more wide ranging and diverse tournament scene since I believe it only really has 1 significant league for fans to follow. once there is an established thriving tournament scene with many various events on schedule, then we can see how viable LoL is as an e-sports and whether the fan support is truly there. | ||
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outerspace02
United States136 Posts
0 doubt about it | ||
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