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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
. They should introduce medivacs in LOL just for him to show off his micro. | ||
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Sjokola
Netherlands800 Posts
Why... Well maybe he'll come back someday. But for such a legendary player to switch. I'm sad now. | ||
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TaShadan
Germany1981 Posts
On October 11 2013 17:20 Loomies wrote: [–]BlizzDustinBrowder We have not seen a decline as a result of the rise of "DOTA Games." We don't see any "threat." They are very different games with very different types of players who want to play them. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/19sg1x/we_are_dustin_browder_alan_dabiri_and_david_kim/c8qypuk DB and DK are the best rts devs ever! They know what they are talking about! | ||
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fant0m
964 Posts
On October 11 2013 16:56 sqrt wrote: But LoL is more competitive - more fans, more money, higher quality of tournaments. And let's not pretend DotA is not casual - it was that map everyone played because they sucked at Warcraft. As for the news - expected. There are not a lot more money than the SC2 scene and there is little incentive for new sponsors to chime in, moving to the biggest eSport game is the smart move. Doesn't mean I won't miss him. LoL worlds barely got more viewers than the TI3 finals. (LoL was at 1.4m, I don't remember exactly what the final number for TI3 was including all sources such as Highwind, but it was over 1m). Considering the huge difference in player base, I think that pretty clearly shows that a lot of people think Dota is the better game to *watch* competitively. And if I'm a professional gamer, that's what I care about. Otherwise you'd be playing Candy Crush on Facebook if you decided based on the number of casual players. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23579 Posts
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
Won't be long till Kespa moves everyone to LoL and we start having Kespa vs LCS debates  | ||
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sqrt
1210 Posts
On October 11 2013 17:09 kickinhead wrote: more popular maybe, but in terms of complexity and required skill it's far below dota2 or HoN. Besides, dota2 is getting more popular, even in South Korea and might even catch up to LoL someday. ^^' Around the time Tera surpasses WoW I assume. Don't get me wrong, DotA has it's audience, but it's been three years (alright two years since anyone and their grandmother could get a key) already, if hasn't made it by now, it's very doubtful it'd make it later on. I think DotA has nearly reached it's peak and it'd start it's slow bleeding as the MOBA genre loses popularity. And I'm saying this as someone who plays DotA daily and watched tournaments (I'm actually a DotA player). That and Valve's support has been very lacking, when was the last time we got a new hero, three months ago or so? Jeez... On October 11 2013 17:09 kickinhead wrote: But IMHO, heavily e-sports-related people will sooner or later move on to the more complex and sophisticated game, if it doesn't heavily lack in other parts (which Dota2 doesn't, in any other form than the lower number of players). If that was the case Quake Arena would still be the king of FPS. I miss Quake... On October 11 2013 17:09 kickinhead wrote: So to get back to the topic: Why doesn't some dota2 Team pick up MKP? He's sixth place in an amature LoL team, as much as I love MKP I doubt we'll see teams fight over him. | ||
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Mambo
Denmark1338 Posts
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GumBa
United Kingdom31935 Posts
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elwoodng
Singapore438 Posts
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LaO-Tyros_Reffa
Netherlands50 Posts
So many awesome memories of the amazing, marine-splitting master. Too many to list.. Never was I happier with a player winning a championship then when MarineKingPrime won MLG (twice). Thank you for everything MKP, we will never forget you <3 Glhf! | ||
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Echo Six
United States30 Posts
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On October 11 2013 17:29 fant0m wrote: LoL worlds barely got more viewers than the TI3 finals. (LoL was at 1.4m, I don't remember exactly what the final number for TI3 was including all sources such as Highwind, but it was over 1m). Considering the huge difference in player base, I think that pretty clearly shows that a lot of people think Dota is the better game to *watch* competitively. And if I'm a professional gamer, that's what I care about. Otherwise you'd be playing Candy Crush on Facebook if you decided based on the number of casual players. In Korea, LoL is like the NFL while Dota is like major league soccer in terms of popularity and viewership and that's all that matters in this case. I guess that tells you that the Korean audience which have had an esports scene the longest have decided that LoL is the better game to watch competitively. | ||
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ETisME
12828 Posts
On October 11 2013 17:29 fant0m wrote: LoL worlds barely got more viewers than the TI3 finals. (LoL was at 1.4m, I don't remember exactly what the final number for TI3 was including all sources such as Highwind, but it was over 1m). Considering the huge difference in player base, I think that pretty clearly shows that a lot of people think Dota is the better game to *watch* competitively. And if I'm a professional gamer, that's what I care about. Otherwise you'd be playing Candy Crush on Facebook if you decided based on the number of casual players. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/10/23/league-of-legends-world-final-officially-the-most-watched-event-in-gaming-history/ League of Legends World Final Officially the Most Watched Event in Gaming History: "Over 8,000 traveled from all corners of the globe to cheer on Azubu Frost and the Taipei Assassins in person More than 8,282,000 unique viewers tuned in for the World Finals via TV and stream worldwide (including 2,402,225 TV viewers in Korea and China) At peak, over 1,154,000 people were watching online alone (not counting any TV numbers) during the World Finals Over the course of both the World Playoffs and Finals, people watched 24,230,688 hours of League of Legends" did TI3 really have a number this close? | ||
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oneill12
Romania1222 Posts
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gneGne
Netherlands697 Posts
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Sabu113
United States11092 Posts
Doom and gloomy hmn. | ||
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Koromon
United States304 Posts
On October 11 2013 16:51 tuestresfat wrote: idk why people say LoL is such an easy game... I found it so much harder than sc2 T_T making diamond (when it was the highest) with all 3 races on separate accts was so easy... less than 50 games each. Sure, getting to mid-high masters was a challenge but not that bad... merely getting to gold in LoL was a fking nightmare edit: no prior moba or rts experience whatsoever Let's trade our talents :D Getting to diamond 1 from plat II took me two weeks and well... maybe a bit more than 50 games :D Geting to mid masters... ha! I dream a good dream. | ||
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mTwRINE
Germany318 Posts
Playing Moba 12h/day because its fun to play doesnt mean you catch up one bit. Playing SC2 12h is nearly impossible/will make you a good player for sure because the game is hard and exhausting (so noone stands playing it 12h), but even casuals are playing Mobas 6-8h/day without getting better at all. On the other side, why blame people for trying and if you can grab a little kickstart, maybe it will work out. But I doubt it. | ||
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
On October 11 2013 17:31 sqrt wrote: Around the time Tera surpasses WoW I assume. Don't get me wrong, DotA has it's audience, but it's been three years (alright two years since anyone and their grandmother could get a key) already, if hasn't made it by now, it's very doubtful it'd make it later on. I think DotA has nearly reached it's peak and it'd start it's slow bleeding as the MOBA genre loses popularity. TERA is one of the most popular games in Korea. WoW wasn't even played that much until recently. With the exception of a few games (LoL and SC) Korea's market is completely different from what you see on other parts of the world. It's like that in China too. Also, I await the day we can accept that there is, and always was and alwas will be, more than one eSports. That being said, it's not helping that every company out their acts like their game is the only eSports in the world. Blizzard is an exception here as they explicitly stated that they watch LoL. But looking at Riot and their stories, and Valve, I don't see a "global eSports" thing happen anytime soon. It will always be that one game everyone plays. Until the next game comes out that people find cool. It will always be like that. | ||
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