Each tournament (CS:GO and Dota 2) will be streamed live over the course of four seasons.
The next question, of course, is who else should be providing narrator packs for DOTA 2.
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Also, a dev once mentioned the possibility of a DotA-style game built on the GW2 engine, which sounds hella fun to me.
The report comes from DFC Intelligence, who claims a recent surge in popularity has propelled Dota 2 to leapfrog its longtime competition.
Valve had helped to foster a vibrant game-playing community, creating influential titles such as Half Life, Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2, it said.
Like most Valve games, TF2 is played from the first-person perspective, which made it a better fit than, say, the isometric view of DOTA 2.
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For the first 10 minutes of gameplay, players participate in standard Dota 2 activities such as ganking, gaining experience and gold, and bulking up with items.
Can it be both those things while mimicking a revenue model that works for an ARTS style combat game like League of Legends and Dota 2?
Mandiant found emails from DOTA to someone named Mei Qiang.
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Personally, I believe DotA 2 to be a richer game on the competitive level, but LoL is certainly more forgiving and easier to get into on the casual level.
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The competitive Dota 2 scene continues to grow at a steady pace, with tournaments like The Defense, G-League, and TPL happening frequently enough to provide fans with consistent tournament play.
Honestly, one could not but laugh when Valve announced the 1 million pot for the beta tournament in DotA 2 and Riot instantly responded with 5 mil total pot in S2.
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Riot says with even just EU west clocking in at 500, 000 peak concurrent players a day, this idea that Dota 2 is somehow ahead of them in the West seems incredibly odd.
The mouse options in particular seemed like the shining stars of the batch, with hand comfort and support that seemed perfect for getting through a game of League of Legends or Dota 2.
With DotA 2 continuing to get closer to release and with Valve supporting it in the competitive scene do you think it will be able to challenge Riot for dominance in the genre?
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Especially in an era of gaming obsessed with the sort of free-to-play model that fuels both DOTA 2 and League of Legends, one would imagine a top-down RPG in this vein could do quite well.
Nonetheless I do understand the importance of compelling gameplay, my most played game on steam with 2200 hours is Dota 2, not because it has super interesting lore, but because the gameplay is just that good.
When you look at OverRun, which is our competitive class-based multiplayer mode, it actually has influences from MOBA games like League of Legends and Dota, where you have a map and there are three lanes on those games.
If you want to get a sense of the genre, Guardians of Middle Earth is actually a very good, streamlined intro, but a few hours being delightfully bewildered by DOTA 2 might give a good sense of whether the form is the right one for you.
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