Lemdro.id

1 point

2 months ago

“It feels just like one of the biggest and longer lasting videogame ever crafted by mankind: overhyped.”

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taladar@sh.itjust.works

5 points

2 months ago

Dota 2 feels like it is more in the “small player base but among those each plays thousands of hours” group of games than in the one that has wide appeal.

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1 point

2 months ago

It’s arguably the game that brought e-sports into a new era. Unless you think League would have ever been a thing without dota being invented.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works

1 point

2 months ago

Watching and playing a game, much like a sport, are two very different things. Many sports that are very popular to watch also don’t have wide appeal in terms of people actually doing it themselves instead of just watching.

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1 point

2 months ago

Yes but baseball is bigger than polo no matter how you look at it.

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VoterFrog@lemmy.world

1 point

2 months ago

Huh? League is bigger than dota 2. By like a lot. Because League has much more mass appeal than dota. And that was their point, it has a dedicated but niche fanbase.

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1 point

2 months ago

My previous point is that League, DOTA 2 and Dota All-Stars (which is where Icefrog comes from, and not from DOTA 2 as the guy maybe believe) are basically the same thing and they all stem from his legacy.

So saying this game is “basically DOTA 2” is, well, a much bigger deal than he seem to realyze.

My point about baseball and polo, was about his distinguishing between the number of watchers and the number of players, which is not relevant because MOBAs are huge no matter how you look at them (like baseball in comparison to polo).

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