DOTA 2

Zaphid_sl said:

Not until Valve adds them in client and that won't happen before TI

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But that will happen, and its just something probably most people aren't aware of. A lot of people could end up playing Dota without playing Dota.

Well Blizzard has been attempting that with SC2 arcade for quite a while, I hope that Dota 2 has the critical mass to make it work.

I'm just waiting until somebody remakes LoL in Dota 2 engine...

Blizzard screwed the pooch with all their rules because of fear that a "game" would be created as popular as Dota that they couldn't monetize because their tools were used. We saw tower defense and defense of the ancients both gain their start in the custom map side of blizzards RTS games. Instead of giving SC2 an ecosystem of non-traditional players that was healthy they drove off creative prospects, made their own "dota" map and called it a new game. Its hard to make a comparison of what Dota 2's custom map environment will be like and what SC2's is - because it isn't what the broodwar/war3 custom map community was like. Valve doesn't seem like the paranoid type and would rather have millions of more players logging into the dota 2 client playing anything at all rather than nothing, they must log into steam and will probably spend money at some point.

Custom maps will be even bigger for Dota 2 than SC/WC3, not counting Dota itself. The playerbase is much larger than WC3's, and the existing graphics community is massive. All it needs is the same accessibility as WC3's map editor had, and the same monetization options for modders as the modelling has.

I don't think we'll see a new break-out mod like AoS/Dota or TD (as a concept), though.

Elerion_sl said:

Custom maps will be even bigger for Dota 2 than SC/WC3, not counting Dota itself. The playerbase is much larger than WC3's, and the existing graphics community is massive. All it needs is the same accessibility as WC3's map editor had, and the same monetization options for modders as the modelling has.

I don't think we'll see a new break-out mod like AoS/Dota or TD (as a concept), though.

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I actually have a really cool idea I want to try when this shit is released... it's gonna be the next big thing (most likely not)!

Hey-o. I'm missing 1-2 players from completing a bunch of TI2 teams. Does anyone have any left over 2013 cards for trade?

PM or Steam ID is Yugamic (Damnit).

Looking for:

I still need ixmike and DDC. I have 1437, Ars-Art, Ice, Icy, notail, sag, super, yao, and yyf.

Cybsled_sl said:

I still need ixmike and DDC. I have 1437, Ars-Art, Ice, Icy, notail, sag, super, yao, and yyf.

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Don't have extras for either of those. Sorry mans.

I have the following:

holy shit @ the start of VP v Rox game one.

i have loads of TI3 cards, actually just used a bunch up as offerings yesterday lol.. Message me, in game name = Ossoi

Pyros_sl said:

Personally looking forward to WC3 story campaign being ported. But yeah I think LoL port is gonna be obvious, just for fun and also because well they can do a lot of interesting stuff with it.

Custom games are coming, but then again they were coming last TI. Hopefully by now shit's almost done for a post TI release, would be a nice way to ride the hype following the event which will probably make some noise even outside of dota itself due to the retarded numbers, if like the week after they start spamming gaming news website with custom game modes shit, a lot of people might check it out.

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Custom games might be coming but I highly doubt Riot and/or Blizzard would be keen on blatant copyright infringement baked into the DOTA2 client.

dammit vp don't win this series and ruin my fantasy team

They keep getting outdrafted, it's like the only strat Mouz/Dog has been playing since they started - very active, but ultimately can be splitpushed to death, once they can't gank with just 4.

I honestly think VP was just trolling the world, this is absurd with them smashing Rox and Mouz...

allow me to quote myself from three days ago:

an accordion_sl said:

Who knew VP would be so bad... they have 3/5 of the old M5, guess the coordination just isn't there without Dread.

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Slark pub stomping

an accordion_sl said:

allow me to quote myself from three days ago:

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Quote is true again.