I heard top Starcraft player joining LoL/Dota.. isn't that downgrade? With RTS you micro multiple units.. with LoL/Dota.. you micro 1 unit? But of course it's still a team game.

I have much more respect in RTS pro than any single pro MOBA player . Perhaps a RTS pro is a true leader by themselves and a pro MOBA player is a true team player? Lol. i have no idea.

Cinematic trailers look awesome. Only thing the in-game graphics look meh. Is it me or it's worst that Dota

Heard no RPG elements (no leveling, no items, all skills unlock, no last hit and shared experience).. i'm not sure this is any good. Will wait and see how is it goes.

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Watched the videos. Look interesting. Gonna keep an eye. Only problem is i find the animation abit awkwards and the heroes with the mounts are alittle big?

This post has been edited by Archaven: Nov 11 2013, 05:57 PM

Well considering it's Activ/Bliz not sure how they going to monetise it. But i read somewhere they'll probably charge on cosmetics and probably heroes too. I hate it if they charge it for unlocking heroes. Don't mind on cosmetics though. Those heroes looks bulky.. damn DOTA2 looks much more beautiful. Wondering why is Bliz artist that bad? Why don't they make the graphics look like Diablo 3? Duh.

Kind of a brilliant idea on monetisation by tournament tickets. No wonder US has declared it as an e-sport. It was really interesting during the start of DOTA2 could watch all the pro matches. Now need to pay to watch it? Aww.. anyway didnt follow on DOTA2 for more than a year. Got more than 20 invites sitting on my Steam account.

Well.. if you didn't notice recent big backlash on Valve is on Halloween's Diretide event. Valve failed to communicate to their fans by keeping quite and the fans uproar and brought it even onto Volvo's twitter and Obama facebook. Damn such a bad portray of PC users.

But in all honesty i'm not sure why all PC community hails Gaben. I'm really not sure. Honestly where does DOTA 2 originated from? IF you asked me Gaben is a thief XD. It's originated from Warcraft 3 mod. In all seriousness, i think Activ/Bliz didnt see it coming from Gaben copyrighting the DOTA2.

This post has been edited by Archaven: Nov 11 2013, 07:59 PM

Yeap i agree if anything Activ/Bliz were really slacking. I'd said both in technology and timeline. Also recently there were forced to remove the RMAH for Diablo 3 due to they are slow in knowing they actually gave a middle finger to their fanbase.

PC gamers need to use the RMAH and console users what? They can play offline too. If anything it's great stupidity if you asked me. They announced 14M Diablo 3 were sold including consoles. One can imagine you do the maths how many copies were sold on PC.

I hate to say it but Activ/Bliz is stupid. They are giving a middle finger to the PC fanbase. They thought the grass is greener on the other side. They have no idea how huge is the MOBA fanbase.

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Agreed with Cheese. I'm NOT a big fan of F2P. In all seriousness, nothing is free. Is just a scam. Micro-transactions and monetization is the worst thing in my principle. But anyhow i welcome what Valve did with Dota2. No heroes unlocks for paying and only paying for tournament tickets. That's the way i think. But i'm not sure how much are the tickets for the tournament though. When it first launched i actually watched it for free.

This post has been edited by Archaven: Nov 11 2013, 09:26 PM

That is what i hate. Why were gamers forced to get a console for the game they want? *facepalm*. If anything, Valve DID the right thing by focusing on PC fanbase hence we saw a 30% growth in Steam active users in 2013 i think.

Recently Microsoft reckoned the success and now moving back in supporting the PC. They had thought they made profits in XBox. But guess nobody knows they lose USD 2B annually on XBox?

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However on recent Steambox and Steam controller announcement.. i'm not sure what to comment on. It's clearly not targeting PC fanbase. It's luring the console crowd and the same time separating Steam from Windows.

This post has been edited by Archaven: Nov 11 2013, 09:31 PM

Thanks for sharing. This is really a letdown to me. Makes me think Blizzard is real lazy. What year are we living in? Those visuals look so dated.

IF anything, Blizzard put effort on was on the CGI trailer

Well i hope so. Since they'll be removing RMAH next year.. i see myself to get myself Diablo 3 and RoS too