Up and coming competitive game to look forward to?

Well thanks, appreciate the primarly constructive feedback. Fuckers got me starting to rethink the LoL or DOTA2 line of thought. Maybe I'll give DOTA2 a try and see which one is more my style. I like the esport aspect; it provides a venue to learn more and be a fan while you are progressing to get to the top. I'm really enjoying the card genre but I just know thats going to fizzle as it is too limited in the variety of skills/challenges it presents. Fighting games are fun but lack that meta game and high strategical aspects of a LOL etc. I'll probably pick one of them to help refine my skills to be prepared for the "next big" thing I guess. I just rather be a person that blazes the path so to speak then follow the road that already has worn out tracks. My best experiences involve MMO releases and pushing to be the first to figure shit out and help define what the benchmark really is.

I'm sure some of you long term competitive MMO players can relate; jumping into a game that has been around for a year or 2 just doesn't have that new fresh car smell! I'll go start researching DOTA2 and dust off my Caitlyn!

Krass can't remember; you were playing FFXIV last I remember weren't you? I finally gave in and sold my 2 accounts to prevent a relapse. I was dumb and passed u p $1k for them when I first quit thinking...maybe I'll want to come back. Had the best geared mage on the server with max crafting and killed on the crafting market. Somehow never got flagged when they suspended all the accounts for over 8M gil or whatever. Sometimes I miss it as raiding was pretty tightly tuned and not a cake walk for the average player but anytime I have any relapse I just think about 2.5 second GCD (2 boxed a warrior and blm; casting was fine on mage but warrior with 2.5 gcd made me want to punch babies)

Just finished downloading DOTA2 and doing the tutorial. I had played LOL abit while I was waiting for FFXIV so I have at least a small bench mark between the games. I think this will be a good mix of staying power without quite the MMO addiction. Having a forced end of game vs....fuck one more attempt on raid boss because idiot A stood 2 cm off his designated spot and ae'd the raid, is probably good for the life balance. I don't mind sticking alot of hours into learning and perfecting skills, no different then sports so thats not an issue. Just need to have tighter controlled start/stopping points for my sanity and life balance.

Quick question for the DOTA experts, my limited in time in LOL i was drawn to ranged ADC like cait. It was a mixed bag because if you fucked up early while trying to learn the game you screwed your team hardcore if the other team had a good ADC. I usually like being the prime time class/position with alot of the pressure but alot of the glory/accountability in most games but since I'll be a noob for a long time coming is a smarter to maybe start more of a support type character? If so any good recommendations? I know I have to learn everyone eventually and all types of roles but to start maybe it would be better to support and not start bad habits out the gate. Sorry just decided to play this tonight and haven't researched anything, going to go through the tutorial and do my research when I have more time friday night but if anyone has any stellar insight you feel free to give ole turbo an early xmas present.

(ps - make it offical, i think i'm done with MMO's until Vanguard 2: "The vision revisioned" is developed. I almost dusted off my sorc and bloodmage duo box last week but resisted)