Wow. The game must be heavily balanced and in the late stages of development for them to show the first footage as tournament play and for them to put that much money on the line. Shall be interesting.
Valves new game - a dota port on the source engine
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Wut thats insane, the total prize pool for those that place will be more money then all starcraft2 tournaments combined this year which is pretty crazy.
Valve must be super confident in the game which is good at this (alpha?) stage. Nice to see them getting back into ESPORTS and throwing out those ESPORTS dollars. Good riddance to LoL and HoN I almost feel sorry for the devs.
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It wont come down to luck, the Chinese teams are really dominant and one team of those completely dominates the rest.
I don't know if it's a sign of their confidence, or how desperately they want to put DOTA back on top while they're helming the ship. That style of game has way more competition now than it did 4 years ago.
$1 million for Valve is, I would think, a fairly trivial price to pay for bringing ALL the DOTA competitive players straight to them and a ton of press to boot. Didn't Activision/IW/Treyarch do something similar with CoD?
Don't get me wrong, it's a sick amount of money. And I want to congratulate the lucky Asian team that's going to win it
I don't know if it's a sign of their confidence, or how desperately they want to put DOTA back on top while they're helming the ship. That style of game has way more competition now than it did 4 years ago.
$1 million for Valve is, I would think, a fairly trivial price to pay for bringing ALL the DOTA competitive players straight to them and a ton of press to boot. Didn't Activision/IW/Treyarch do something similar with CoD?
Don't get me wrong, it's a sick amount of money. And I want to congratulate the lucky Asian team that's going to win it
Yeah activision is putting up 1million I think in total prize money for a blops tournament at thier new codvention. In both cases it's money taken from a marketing budget which doesn't really mean much in terms of how competitive or active either game will be in the future.
As for competition for dota/moba games most of the HoN and LoL community are really looking forward to dota2. It has a ton of out of the box features that are missing from both games. I think some of the more casual players of LoL will stick around but the majority of HoN will definatly switch over. I think valve are pretty confident in the game, espcially to organize something like this when noone has even seen the game yet.
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What? I didnt get it.
No idea why VALVe doesn't develop a newer version of Source, since Source is infact currently severly outdated and Im not even talking about the graphics, wich is the biggest beef with most people.
Well, the event is taking place in Germany. I figure they're going for a more international appeal with this.Not even a single team from NA.
Source engine has been upgraded with time (HL2 engine --> Orange Box engine --> Left 4 dead engine), but imo it is really time to switch.
Also... seems some groups are getting beta keys already.
https://twitter.com/#!/Magickagame/status/98292103783792641
Chances are the game will be updated to Orange Box engine, if it hasn't already. Valve recently did that for Day of Defeat: Source and Counter Strike: Source.
I've never followed DOTA on WC3, my only experience with the MOBA genre is League of Legends. The Europeans seem to dominate in the competitive field in that game. Granted the Asian countries didn't get the game until just recently.
I hope DOTA 2 is accessible, because I know HoN isn't and have heard HoN is almost a carbon copy of DOTA.
I've never followed DOTA on WC3, my only experience with the MOBA genre is League of Legends. The Europeans seem to dominate in the competitive field in that game. Granted the Asian countries didn't get the game until just recently.
I hope DOTA 2 is accessible, because I know HoN isn't and have heard HoN is almost a carbon copy of DOTA.
Not even a single team from NA.
If ranked NA teams would not even be in the top50. Not very good for promotion to have a tournament with extremely one sided games.
All of those fall under the source engine, just different cuttoff points between games that have new engine features that are too hard to implement in older games. they will never 'switch' as it's thier inhouse engine that they are constantly updating.
Going to be interesting when this is released. All Dota games now free to play, and all with similar game mechanics and heroes. Plus the original is still played quite a bit. I hope they add Dampeer at some point, but given his low usage rate in HoN I doubt it. Plus afaik he's an S2 created hero and has no Dota eqivalent. Or is a sort of mix of a few different ones.
Ok now real craziness lol
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/03/serious-biz-dota-team-bought-for-6m/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/03/serious-biz-dota-team-bought-for-6m/