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Araneatrox
08-01-2011, 03:46 PM
http://www.dota2.com/


Wuuuuut?

Valve are just awesome.
gwhit518
08-01-2011, 03:55 PM
I fucking love Valve. In my opinion they will always be the best game developers because they truly love and care about their game and the community behind it. They do what is best for their games and what better way to show off your game than allowing the top 16 best teams come and run it through its paces. I know ill be glued to my computer screen the whole weekend. Only 17 days away! This made my day.

Valve will forever be the best game developer.
vRaPiiDZzo
08-01-2011, 04:18 PM
what game is this tournament for??
Antidote
08-01-2011, 04:22 PM
what game is this tournament for??

DotA 2. As says the title..
vRaPiiDZzo
08-01-2011, 05:24 PM
never played it so i didnt know
heuer89
08-01-2011, 05:33 PM
http://www.dota2.com/


Wuuuuut?

Valve are just awesome.

Oh hell yes. This makes me love Valve even more....
Araneatrox
08-01-2011, 05:49 PM
Oh hell yes. This makes me love Valve even more....

And just think, we get to watch over 70 of the best Dota/HoN/LoL players in the world compete for a first place of $1m in less than 20 days. Its amazing
heuer89
08-01-2011, 06:44 PM
And just think, we get to watch over 70 of the best Dota/HoN/LoL players in the world compete for a first place of $1m in less than 20 days. Its amazing

And then Raleigh is the week after ^_^ more LoL, SC2, and Reach. I AM EXCITE.
Antidote
08-03-2011, 01:32 AM
It's gonna be weird having this out and LoL being big at the same time. Idk which one will be bigger and which one I'll get more into. I feel like LoL has taken a lot of the bad out of DotA such as amount of pressure during the game such as, first blood, multikills, sprees, spellcasters, added in ranking systems and things like that. Along with a removal of denying, which is debatable if that's good. They do have probably out of any game, my favorite and working ban system.

DotA by Valve will have to bring huge things to the table to get my attention and added support over the esports driven company of Riot Games that has given us LoL. The prize pool here of this first tournament is intense and a HUGE business driven deal.

Basically just can't wait to see which one of these wins between DotA 2 and LoL.
D Moralize
08-04-2011, 03:42 AM
crazy prize pool. I wish bungie would've released reach like that could you imagine. I don't know much about these dota lol and hon type games but they all are very similar right? Do top players stick to one game or are they just as good in any of them? Or is there really only a tournament scene for one of them?
Antidote
08-04-2011, 12:54 PM
crazy prize pool. I wish bungie would've released reach like that could you imagine. I don't know much about these dota lol and hon type games but they all are very similar right? Do top players stick to one game or are they just as good in any of them? Or is there really only a tournament scene for one of them?

DotA was huge. Mainly not in the US. Actually you can tell by the teams that had beta access, the ones competing in the tourny, are all outside of NA. DotA however being a custom mod of WC3 left a lot of stuff in it that couldn't really be fixed or changed so when LoL and HoN were created, to my knowledge non of the competitive DotA players (the ones people have heard of at least) transferred to either of those games. LoL picked up fresh professional players out of competitions such as WCG. LoL had their own tournament circuit system they used to determine the winner of their season one playoffs. HoN isn't driven as much by a esports centered company such as the one running LoL. They've had tournament and been featured in a few WCG events but it's never had the success either of the other two games have had. Which imo can be blamed mostly that you have to pay a subscription to be able to play it while DotA and LoL are completely free to play games.

I'm sure when DotA 2 comes out that some LoL and HoN players will try it out and even make the switch all depending on the success of the game. However, LoL is dominating the field of MOBA games so unless DotA 2 pulls out some huge changes then I imagine most of the MOBA players will stick with LoL.

I think one of the things holding these games back is that no one wants to be the first one to make it pay to play after seeing the amount of failure of HoN.