EPTYou guys are 10 years late. LOL
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shaftofpleasure
Korea (North)1375 Posts
You guys are 10 years late. LOL | ||
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
The features, growth so far, support, and largest esport tournament on the planet EVERY year with flying in 80+ people fully paid is just the beginning of where this is going. Already you can see the numbers of joindota stream watchers going up, from a few hundred to the now 9,000+ marks, with good vod viewership and youtube numbers. The force behind Dota 2 is far greater than even SC2 at this point in it's life and lol was a joke in beta. It's honestly mind boggling how shortsighted people are in not seeing the veritable avalanche that is dota 2 esports. It will be free as well. | ||
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Sm3agol
United States2055 Posts
On February 16 2012 01:22 shaftofpleasure wrote: uhhh.. Broodwar? You guys are 10 years late. LOL Get with the times, BW is dead. User was banned for this post. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On February 15 2012 23:20 red4ce wrote: I hope they succeed. More competition means Blizzard will have to up their game. This. It's not as if Blizzard is incapable of these things. They just would need to have incentive/try to do them. | ||
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S_SienZ
1878 Posts
On February 16 2012 01:41 dacthehork wrote: It will be free as well. They said they haven't decided on a business model and merely remain open to the idea of F2P. =.= Just goes to show how irrationally optimistic you are. Until these things materialise, it's all just hype talk. | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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S_SienZ
1878 Posts
On February 16 2012 01:56 Itsmedudeman wrote: The free to play business model that LoL has isn't a good one from a player's perspective. Anyone who actually plays LoL knows that it's abusive as shit, and that you would rather pay a 50 dollar one time fee to have the game in its entirety. If Dota2 follows LoL's business model I don't know how it would go, especially when most Dota players got every hero and function for free. You won't be able to top Riot's 5 mil with a one time fee model though. | ||
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Trumpet
United States1935 Posts
I swear this is what it looks like to an outsider when you dota2 guys start rambling. lololol | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
Great for DotA 2 to be pushing to include all these great features that SC2 should have, thus causing quite a bit of competition for Blizzard to improve their efforts with SC2. I'm especially intrigued by the possibility of including mod support. Perhaps someone can reverse-engineer an RTS out of DotA 2? That would be something. | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
On February 16 2012 02:04 Bagration wrote: Two words: Brood War I can agree, but only in Korea and arguably in China. Everywhere else, not so much even though there are a lot of passionate fans and players for the game. | ||
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Uranium
United States1077 Posts
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Tryndamere
Canada145 Posts
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
On February 16 2012 02:17 Tryndamere wrote: I seriously don't get Valve's intention. Before the game was even out you had players playing for millions of dollars of prize money, and the general public didn't even have access to the game. That was just completely retarded from Valve's perspective. 1000% agree. The hype from it is already gone and it's still miles away from release and not even many people have beta access yet. I'd like to hear what a valve representative would have to say before I slapped them in the face and told them hosting a tournament when the game was available would have been better in any situation imaginable. | ||
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Mementoss
Canada2595 Posts
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Ryhn
United States509 Posts
On February 16 2012 02:19 Itsmedudeman wrote: 1000% agree. The hype from it is already gone and it's still miles away from release and not even many people have beta access yet. I'd like to hear what a valve representative would have to say before I slapped them in the face and told them hosting a tournament when the game was available would have been better in any situation imaginable. That tournament served a major purpose aside from hype. It essentially, in one fell swoop, caused every foreign DotA team to switch to Dota 2. This matters because the hardcore DotA fans see this, and think, "Hey, I want to play what the pros are playing!" The International was not a cry out to the general public so much as it was a love letter to the already established community. The Chinese have been showing interest in the game, but the current setup for the servers isn't very good for them, not yet. LAN will be a huge piece of the puzzle to winning them over. Dota 2 has been down for the past day or so for major network improvements (The next update will also include a complete overhaul to the Source Engine's networking component, verified by Zoid on the dev forums), and Erik Johnson has pledged to continue adding servers into regions until everyone can play with sub 100ms ping. I'd be willing to bet money that The International 2 will be the big advertising event you claim the first failed to be. Erik Johnson himself said that The International last year was mainly being used for a learning experiece - they'd never done anything like it before, and needed to get some experience in hosting and broadcasting large tournaments before it really mattered. | ||
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gurrpp
United States437 Posts
On February 15 2012 23:37 zalz wrote: 3) Is less competitive Huh? On February 16 2012 00:27 heyoka wrote: There is a pretty good chance Dota is too late to market and LoL will blow it out of the water for many years. Features and functionality are (sadly) far from the most important thing when it comes to how big a pass-time becomes. Unfortunately this is true. HoN has had better features than LoL for a long time, but still hasn't seen anything like the growth LoL has despite going f2p and creating the best spectator ui I have ever seen. I have faith that valve will make dota2 far more accessible than HoN, which seems to me to be the main determinant of whether a game sinks or swims in this genre. The fact that dota2 also is years ahead of everyone when it comes to in game features is a plus as well. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
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SigmaoctanusIV
United States3313 Posts
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Bengui
Canada775 Posts
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