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ReturnStroke
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States801 Posts
August 09 2011 23:42 GMT
#201
On August 10 2011 08:36 RodYan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.

Probably. I've never heard of him. Exactly what SC2 tournaments has he posted results in?


Umm, Testie is a crazy good RTS player, if you had followed SC:BW you'd have heard of him, he's sick. He took games off of the likes of Bisu. (watch those games btw)
Gao Xi
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Hong Kong5178 Posts
August 09 2011 23:42 GMT
#202
On August 10 2011 07:35 zz_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 06:32 figq wrote:
When MOBA could deliver stuff like these, maybe then we could talk:
+ Show Spoiler [OSL History 1999-2010] +
@39m17s (it's set to auto-start there)
+ Show Spoiler [Klazart excerpt] +
+ Show Spoiler [Korean commentary] +
+ Show Spoiler [120000 live viewers] +
[image loading]


How's that relevant when the thread is MOBA vs SC2.

Also I don't even understand what you're trying to show with the first, second and third video. Emotional hype videos and commentators getting excited? Hell every game with a relatively large fanbase has that...

I dont even know why he posted BW in this thread. BW is already established, with big sponsors, and TV channels dedicated to it.
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Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
August 09 2011 23:43 GMT
#203
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.


Why do you even bother, he's a troll.

Anyway, I think that both sc2 and dota2 will become major esports.
They are both fun, skilled, have active communities and people loving them.
Only thing is dota is kinda hard for a newbie to follow. Maybe Valve will do something about that.
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PartyBiscuit
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada4525 Posts
August 09 2011 23:44 GMT
#204
On August 10 2011 08:36 RodYan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.

Probably. I've never heard of him. Exactly what SC2 tournaments has he posted results in?

http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/international/players/1230_Testie/main
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Slithice
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada78 Posts
August 09 2011 23:44 GMT
#205
On August 10 2011 08:36 RodYan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.

Probably. I've never heard of him. Exactly what SC2 tournaments has he posted results in?


He used to be a sc:bw pro player and the best player in north america for a while...

I guess I took your post too seriously and its only YOUR opinion.
Daudr
Profile Joined November 2009
Sweden275 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-09 23:47:21
August 09 2011 23:46 GMT
#206
On August 10 2011 08:36 RodYan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.

Probably. I've never heard of him. Exactly what SC2 tournaments has he posted results in?


Famous BW player, he performed extremely well as a foreigner.

On topic, it's hard to say. MOBA games are quite hard to get into as a spectator with no prior knowledge, more so than Starcraft 2 imo. With the right investments, presentation and casters, sure.
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oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States5580 Posts
August 09 2011 23:46 GMT
#207
A great error of Blizzard's approach to SC2, I believe, is believing that the game industry and esports go together (top-down esports -> more SC2 sales idea). Actually, they're different. Some games just happen to be great esports, some of them are old like CS or BW, some of them are new like SC2. Copies sold shouldn't be correlated to popularity as a spectator event. But then, I don't know much about how popular HoN or LoL are with players, either.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
howerpower
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States619 Posts
August 09 2011 23:46 GMT
#208
On August 10 2011 08:36 RodYan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.

Probably. I've never heard of him. Exactly what SC2 tournaments has he posted results in?


lololololol wow......
billyX333
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1360 Posts
August 09 2011 23:49 GMT
#209
On August 10 2011 06:32 figq wrote:
When MOBA could deliver stuff like these, maybe then we could talk:
+ Show Spoiler [OSL History 1999-2010] +
@39m17s (it's set to auto-start there)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvd-GXMPYao#t=39m17s
+ Show Spoiler [Klazart excerpt] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPGqU8Q0uc
+ Show Spoiler [Korean commentary] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HKh0tEUFc
+ Show Spoiler [120000 live viewers] +
[image loading]

just... lol
of all the videos you could have linked to highlight broodwar's rich history, you link us a klazart commentary
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
August 09 2011 23:50 GMT
#210
Casually, yes.
Competitively, no.

It is much harder to balance 80+ champions than it is to balance 3 races.
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
DeepElemBlues
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5079 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-09 23:54:32
August 09 2011 23:54 GMT
#211
why do i get the suspicion that the OP is a backhanded way to balance whine
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Jayrod
Profile Joined August 2010
1820 Posts
August 09 2011 23:54 GMT
#212
Angrytestie was once friends with incontrol from something i heard on an old sotg. Incontrol used to idolize him apparently and then was able to play with him in BW some. Testie was caught hacking in multiple online tournaments in BW, but was good enough to stop doing that and win LANs as well. He does prefer HoN and Ive gotten my ass beaten down by him in HoN several times. Hes one of the top players in HoN... always has been really...probably the sickest farmer that game has seen.

Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
August 09 2011 23:55 GMT
#213
On August 10 2011 08:50 57 Corvette wrote:
Casually, yes.
Competitively, no.

It is much harder to balance 80+ champions than it is to balance 3 races.


it is much harder to balance 43+ units than it is to balance 2 sides.
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
Jayrod
Profile Joined August 2010
1820 Posts
August 09 2011 23:59 GMT
#214
On August 10 2011 08:55 Steveling wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:50 57 Corvette wrote:
Casually, yes.
Competitively, no.

It is much harder to balance 80+ champions than it is to balance 3 races.


it is much harder to balance 43+ units than it is to balance 2 sides.

DoTA is a much deeper game, theres really not an argument and I prefer sc2 of MOBA games. Its one thing for me to have a preference though and its another to be ignorant. Deeper =/= better, but DOTA/HoN are just more complex overall.
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
August 10 2011 00:03 GMT
#215
On August 10 2011 08:49 billyX333 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 06:32 figq wrote:
When MOBA could deliver stuff like these, maybe then we could talk:
+ Show Spoiler [OSL History 1999-2010] +
@39m17s (it's set to auto-start there)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvd-GXMPYao#t=39m17s
+ Show Spoiler [Klazart excerpt] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPGqU8Q0uc
+ Show Spoiler [Korean commentary] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HKh0tEUFc
+ Show Spoiler [120000 live viewers] +
[image loading]

just... lol
of all the videos you could have linked to highlight broodwar's rich history, you link us a klazart commentary
The four links cover different aspects of why RTS creates a madly intense scene, that actually is fun to spectate, as well as play - and not just fun to play.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
August 10 2011 00:05 GMT
#216
never played hon, lol or dota, but arent those team games? in that situation, i would think that they would not compete with each other, but rather co-exist. sc1/2 are individual games mostly.
L3gendary
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada1470 Posts
August 10 2011 00:07 GMT
#217
On August 10 2011 08:42 ReturnStroke wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 08:36 RodYan wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:32 Slithice wrote:
On August 10 2011 08:28 RodYan wrote:
I have a totally ungroundedhate for DOTA and its clones

DOTA is for people who can't macro, micro, and multi-task properly. Also, from my experience, their community is complete garbage.

Comparing DOTA to Starcraft2 is like comparing kickball to baseball. Baseball is the sport the pros play, but kickball is more popular on the playground.



Angrytestie said that he prefers HoN over sc2, is that because he cant macro/micro/multi-talk properly? I doubt it.

Probably. I've never heard of him. Exactly what SC2 tournaments has he posted results in?


Umm, Testie is a crazy good RTS player, if you had followed SC:BW you'd have heard of him, he's sick. He took games off of the likes of Bisu. (watch those games btw)


When did he beat bisu lol?
Watching Jaedong play purifies my eyes. -Coach Ju Hoon
Divergence
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada363 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-10 01:52:05
August 10 2011 01:51 GMT
#218
To those who play DotA/HoN/LoL:

I have a quick question just about the community for those games. It seems with StarCraft the community is unquestionably big. The amount of quality community content out there seemingly dwarfs any other game I have ever played. All the pros in SC are constantly talked about (almost too much), there are so many community personalities and there are several weekly (even daily) shows about starcraft, and people are always streaming.

How does the community of these MOBA games compare to StarCraft? I think to judge the "size" of a community you have to account for more than just the amount of players. StarCraft may be small (in terms of players) in comparison but the "community content to players ratio" seems enormous. Do any of these games have a comparable amount of community content?

Also, what about the tournaments? How does the tournament scene in these games compares to SC2?
Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
August 10 2011 02:12 GMT
#219
On August 10 2011 10:51 Divergence wrote:
To those who play DotA/HoN/LoL:

I have a quick question just about the community for those games. It seems with StarCraft the community is unquestionably big. The amount of quality community content out there seemingly dwarfs any other game I have ever played. All the pros in SC are constantly talked about (almost too much), there are so many community personalities and there are several weekly (even daily) shows about starcraft, and people are always streaming.

How does the community of these MOBA games compare to StarCraft? I think to judge the "size" of a community you have to account for more than just the amount of players. StarCraft may be small (in terms of players) in comparison but the "community content to players ratio" seems enormous. Do any of these games have a comparable amount of community content?

Also, what about the tournaments? How does the tournament scene in these games compares to SC2?


There are more trolls, db's, wannabees in the dota communities than actually intelligent and helpful people.

The players are not much better either. Most bm like mofos, while having enormous egos.
On both cases there are bright exeptions ofc.

In total the Dota community is one of the worst I've encountered, like, in any game ever.(I know the reasons why dota attracts such an audience but I shall not go into this)

The tournaments are there and some of them are going on for quite a few years. The prizes are too small though. I'd say a good 80% of pro players don't have salaries and in general the whole structure seems very unorganized and amatuerish.

Let me finish by saying that most of these problems stem from the fact that dota is just a custom map with no real support behind it. So I expect many of these things to eclipse gradually with the coming of Dota2.
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zz_
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden1022 Posts
August 10 2011 03:04 GMT
#220
On August 10 2011 07:54 figq wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2011 07:35 zz_ wrote:
On August 10 2011 06:32 figq wrote:
When MOBA could deliver stuff like these, maybe then we could talk:
+ Show Spoiler [OSL History 1999-2010] +
@39m17s (it's set to auto-start there)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvd-GXMPYao#t=39m17s
+ Show Spoiler [Klazart excerpt] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPGqU8Q0uc
+ Show Spoiler [Korean commentary] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6HKh0tEUFc
+ Show Spoiler [120000 live viewers] +
[image loading]


How's that relevant when the thread is MOBA vs SC2.

Also I don't even understand what you're trying to show with the first, second and third video. Emotional hype videos and commentators getting excited? Hell every game with a relatively large fanbase has that...
The thread is about the leader of esports.
I haven't seen MOBA create such a scene, show me please, something worthy.
edit: and lasting.


No, the thread is between MOBAs and SC2. Read the title.
And your videos still aren't making any sense, what do you mean with MOBAs creating "such a scene". What kind of scene? The picture is self-explanatory, BW has a huge following, sure, but how on earth does the klazartling video and the OSL hype video prove anything else than the fact that people like BW and Klazart speaks way too fast. You're just linking stuff you find emotionally engaging while providing zero context.
A person who likes dota might as well link you to the LGD vs Kingsurf replay from 2009 and it would mean just as little to you as the stuff you linked means to someone who follows MOBAs exclusively.
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