here's how I can complain: hots direct competitor has an infinitely better system that doesn't involve bullshit dailies. dailies are garbage and I haven't seen anyone try to refute that because it's true. just how to deal with their terribleness.
I prefer dailies to first win of the day because dailies stack to three (unless League changed something), and anything that encourages toxicity is a no-go in my book and requiring wins does exactly that. It would be nice if there were daily rerolls like in Hearthstone.
If we're comparing it to Dota 2 then there's absolutely no contest but hots is never going to switch to such a system.
Don't do them then? Just play the game. Sooner or later you play characters that fulfill X quest.
if only just playing the game gave you gold. you either do your chores, or you don't get new heroes.
I'm level 40. I don't need daily quests to figure out what roles I like and what roles I don't like, I already know. I've known for a while.
Playing the game does give you gold.
And you'd only need to play anywhere from 334 to 1000 games for a 10,000 gold hero. It's not practical to ignore dailies if you want any sort of gold income.
Yeah, never said it was, but if someone hates dailies... don't know what they want to hear, right?
I don't get how you can complain that it's too slow to get things for free. It's free. If you don't want to spend a dime on the game, you've gotta grind it out.
I know shit is pricey, but wait for sales. I have 25 heroes and several skins, and I've spent maybe the price of a retail game. That's way more heroes than I need.
You could easily spend $20 and get a nice roster of heroes you like, plus the cheapies with the gold you earn on the way up to level 40.
DOTA 2 offers over 100 heroes for free and still makes Valve so much money they play around with gameshow-esque money cannons in the employee break room for fun. Complaining that Blizzard's model is shitty is completely legitimate, because it is. HOTS has the worst monetization model in the whole industry. It also has the best gameplay, so I put up with it, but let's call a spade a spade.
Edit: There's also SMITE, since DOTA 2 never counts for whatever reason.
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Don't do them then? Just play the game. Sooner or later you play characters that fulfill X quest.
if only just playing the game gave you gold. you either do your chores, or you don't get new heroes.
I'm level 40. I don't need daily quests to figure out what roles I like and what roles I don't like, I already know. I've known for a while.
Playing the game does give you gold.
And you'd only need to play anywhere from 334 to 1000 games for a 10,000 gold hero. It's not practical to ignore dailies if you want any sort of gold income.
Yeah, never said it was, but if someone hates dailies... don't know what they want to hear, right?
I don't get how you can complain that it's too slow to get things for free. It's free. If you don't want to spend a dime on the game, you've gotta grind it out.
I know shit is pricey, but wait for sales. I have 25 heroes and several skins, and I've spent maybe the price of a retail game. That's way more heroes than I need.
You could easily spend $20 and get a nice roster of heroes you like, plus the cheapies with the gold you earn on the way up to level 40.
DOTA 2 offers over 100 heroes for free and still makes Valve so much money they play around with gameshow-esque money cannons in the employee break room for fun. Complaining that Blizzard's model is shitty is completely legitimate, because it is. HOTS has the worst monetization model in the whole industry. It also has the best gameplay, so I put up with it, but let's call a spade a spade.
Edit: There's also SMITE, since DOTA 2 never counts for whatever reason.
So, what you're saying is that HOTS is better.
And they're charging more.
Because they're better? :biggrin:
Not all MOBAs are equal or we'd be playing the cheapest one, right? I think Blizzard could be doing far more insidious shit as a F2P game to be honest.
here's how I can complain: hots direct competitor has an infinitely better system that doesn't involve bullshit dailies. dailies are garbage and I haven't seen anyone try to refute that because it's true. just how to deal with their terribleness.
But we're playing this game instead. At what point does a game's quality or attraction to you equate to a higher dollar or time value? Is this not a business they're running?
Don't do them then? Just play the game. Sooner or later you play characters that fulfill X quest.
if only just playing the game gave you gold. you either do your chores, or you don't get new heroes.
I'm level 40. I don't need daily quests to figure out what roles I like and what roles I don't like, I already know. I've known for a while.
Playing the game does give you gold.
And you'd only need to play anywhere from 334 to 1000 games for a 10,000 gold hero. It's not practical to ignore dailies if you want any sort of gold income.
Yeah, never said it was, but if someone hates dailies... don't know what they want to hear, right?
I don't get how you can complain that it's too slow to get things for free. It's free. If you don't want to spend a dime on the game, you've gotta grind it out.
I know shit is pricey, but wait for sales. I have 25 heroes and several skins, and I've spent maybe the price of a retail game. That's way more heroes than I need.
You could easily spend $20 and get a nice roster of heroes you like, plus the cheapies with the gold you earn on the way up to level 40.
DOTA 2 offers over 100 heroes for free and still makes Valve so much money they play around with gameshow-esque money cannons in the employee break room for fun. Complaining that Blizzard's model is shitty is completely legitimate, because it is. HOTS has the worst monetization model in the whole industry. It also has the best gameplay, so I put up with it, but let's call a spade a spade.
Edit: There's also SMITE, since DOTA 2 never counts for whatever reason.
Dota2 doesn't count because if it wasn't free people would have just stayed with dota the mod.
Yeah the problem has been the team staying destroying structures too long or just refusing to walk away from a fight.... The funny thing is that my teams were often great at fighting. I lost a couple matches when we were ahead 2 levels all match because all my teammates would do is fight.
sigh. nothing like beating a tychus in damage as chen and then complaining that as i solo fight 3 heroes in the back line that omg chen why aren't you peeling for me, one of the most mobile ranged assassins in the game.
sometimes you have players who just can't press buttons i guess.
Blizzard doesn't have to do anything more insidious than "high prices" because they have an ingrained fan base that will pay for content no matter how outrageous the price
Also, hots isn't a better game. It is a different game
As someone who has never played another moba, the hots prices seem mostly fine. Like, I have a decent stable of characters and I've spent like, maybe 20 on the game. I only wish skins were cheaper. If street fighter could offer me high poly skins for like 3 bucks, why can't blizz? And capcom was always the worst with dlc.
As someone who has never played another moba, the hots prices seem mostly fine. Like, I have a decent stable of characters and I've spent like, maybe 20 on the game. I only wish skins were cheaper. If street fighter could offer me high poly skins for like 3 bucks, why can't blizz? And capcom was always the worst with dlc.
I've played over half a dozen. HotS definitely has by far the worst spending model.
I think it's the best game and can't go back to other MOBAs, but I have no problem admitting the prices are awful.
(okay, I guess Strife is worse, but does it count if nobody is playing it?)
finally decided to upload all my replays to hotslogs so i could get better win/loss info for my heroes since blizzard doesn't want to provide it. it's pretty incredible how many of my replays are already uploaded. i assume it'll be less as it gets closer to now, but probably 1/10 aren't duplicates for me.
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Dailies stack to 3, so I'm a little confused why someone would feel so strongly about having to knock them out so quickly. You could just let the one you don't like hang around and eventually get finished when you are "forced" to play a particular class for some reason. Or you could do a super-quick 15-minute AI win with a free rotation character to work on the level-based gold at the same time.
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The reason I didn't play hots for long times was definitely because of the gold gain (which ironically caused me to miss the goblin event or w/e)
Like, hots gameplay by itself is absolutely not compelling enough to sit there and grind gold ignoring dailies just so you can unlock things you want to play at any time. The quest system should absolutely not force you to do shit you don't want to do and be the only reasonable method of gold gain daily. It is a garbage system. You can put up with it but it doesn't change the fact that it's terrible and ought to be changed.
Dailies as a system are fine.
The dailies HOTS has implemented are crap.
You should be able to just log in and play a handful of matches to do them, not specifically alter your playstyle around them. I understand they want to get people to try other heroes to get them to buy them. You can occasionally have one to play something specific, but the majority should be ones to increase gameplay. Get X assists, get X roll score (siege/hero/healing/tanking).
Dailies as a system are fine.
The dailies HOTS has implemented are crap.
You should be able to just log in and play a handful of matches to do them, not specifically alter your playstyle around them. I understand they want to get people to try other heroes to get them to buy them. You can occasionally have one to play something specific, but the majority should be ones to increase gameplay. Get X assists, get X roll score (siege/hero/healing/tanking).
there was a system like this for hero leveling ages ago. it was bad and encouraged bad play. the dailies have to be as generic as possible so incentives don't get weird.
edit: ran into a butcher honest to god botting. he never exited lane and never used any skills. it was not a fun match. and it was on garden so it still took 15 minutes because pbbbbbbt.
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Blizzard doesn't have to do anything more insidious than "high prices" because they have an ingrained fan base that will pay for content no matter how outrageous the price
Also, hots isn't a better game. It is a different game
You're being silly. Of course they're different.
But why would a player play HOTS over DOTA2?
Do the differences in HOTS keep them here despite the slow gold gain and high cash prices? Then to them, it's a better game. If it wasn't, they could go play the other game and have all the heroes they want.
You're saying a diner isn't worse than a steakhouse, they're just different. No, you pay $35 for a striploin at a steakhouse because the experience is better than the $7 steak at the diner. Of course they're different establishments. But one charges a premium that customers gladly pay. Why? Because the steak at the steakhouse is subjectively better to the customer who will pay the premium.
You can say it's because it's Blizzard and people pay no matter what. Then great, Blizzard has built a fantastic brand over the years and it's paying off.
And by more insidious shit, I'm saying they could be doing more and making more money. As in not just cosmetic shit. The mobile game type of F2P crap has made its way to PC games. Saying "they don't have to" doesn't make sense. They're not at "maximum profits" here.
Blizzard doesn't have to do anything more insidious than "high prices" because they have an ingrained fan base that will pay for content no matter how outrageous the price
Also, hots isn't a better game. It is a different game
You're saying a diner isn't worse than a steakhouse, they're just different. No, you pay $35 for a striploin at a steakhouse because the experience is better than the $7 steak at the diner. Of course they're different establishments. But one charges a premium that customers gladly pay. Why? Because the steak at the steakhouse is subjectively better to the customer who will pay the premium.
Now see, this post was right up to and after this analogy, at which point you use the entirely wrong analogy and make yourself look like a goose. Seriously, calling DotA2 a diner steak while HotS is a steakhouse steak is both a massive slap to the face to DotA (at least the diners I've been to have always had extraordinarily crappy steak) and not at all lining up with your argument. What you should be saying is choosing between a steakhouse and a seafood place because they're both totally different things.
Basically "HotS is a better game for me than DotA2" is what people are trying to say, which is perfectly valid
"HotS is a better game than DotA2" is what people are saying and is bullshit
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Blizzard doesn't have to do anything more insidious than "high prices" because they have an ingrained fan base that will pay for content no matter how outrageous the price
Also, hots isn't a better game. It is a different game
Blizzard doesn't have to do anything more insidious than "high prices" because they have an ingrained fan base that will pay for content no matter how outrageous the price
Also, hots isn't a better game. It is a different game
You're saying a diner isn't worse than a steakhouse, they're just different. No, you pay $35 for a striploin at a steakhouse because the experience is better than the $7 steak at the diner. Of course they're different establishments. But one charges a premium that customers gladly pay. Why? Because the steak at the steakhouse is subjectively better to the customer who will pay the premium.
Now see, this post was right up to and after this analogy, at which point you use the entirely wrong analogy and make yourself look like a goose. Seriously, calling DotA2 a diner steak while HotS is a steakhouse steak is both a massive slap to the face to DotA (at least the diners I've been to have always had extraordinarily crappy steak) and not at all lining up with your argument. What you should be saying is choosing between a steakhouse and a seafood place because they're both totally different things.
Basically "HotS is a better game for me than DotA2" is what people are trying to say, which is perfectly valid
"HotS is a better game than DotA2" is what people are saying and is bullshit
Sorry, I'm not equating DOTA to a diner steak. Just trying to exemplify that one can put a higher value on the "same thing".
I'm saying you're playing this game over others because you like it more, right? So saying the other game is cheaper doesn't really work as an argument, because you obviously think this game is better. You would rather play this, despite the difference in price.
So at what point does that deserve a higher value?
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And, if DOTA2 could charge for champs they would. Valve isn't a non profit. They went a different route to squeeze juice from that one.
Blizzard has power behind their brand and can charge what they charge.
If you think it's outrageous why not play another MOBA that isn't? I think it's because you like this one better. And if that's the case, then I don't think it's reasonable to compare this game's price to another game you would rather not play.
And, if DOTA2 could charge for champs they would. Valve isn't a non profit. They went a different route to squeeze juice from that one.
eh, they don't charge for classes in the TF2
The real reason to discount DotA2 from these discussions isn't the DotA1 precedent, the massive UI and bugfix overhauls provided in DotA2 are more than enough to make most players not willing to go back to DotA1. The thing is that Valve is such a ridiculous company with ridiculous margins from the fact that they're running Steam that they are essentially in a Google-like position: they have so much money they can do whatever silly idea they want and can afford the loss if it doesn't pan out.
Like, I'm pretty sure DotA2 wasn't profitable for the first few months, or even years; but Valve didn't care because they're Valve, and it also did things like rope old HoN players into finally installing Steam and losing their wallet to sales. And then Valve figured out what they were doing with cosmetics (they did a lot of legitimate experimentation in how to make them work between DotA, TF2 and CS:GO) and now it is also a cash cow.
Dailies as a system are fine.
The dailies HOTS has implemented are crap.
You should be able to just log in and play a handful of matches to do them, not specifically alter your playstyle around them. I understand they want to get people to try other heroes to get them to buy them. You can occasionally have one to play something specific, but the majority should be ones to increase gameplay. Get X assists, get X roll score (siege/hero/healing/tanking).
If you don't have to do anything at all to pass your daily then they're all basically the same. I think all they need to do is add a re-roll option once per day so you can choose to never play a particular role if you want.
Dailies as a system are fine.
The dailies HOTS has implemented are crap.
You should be able to just log in and play a handful of matches to do them, not specifically alter your playstyle around them. I understand they want to get people to try other heroes to get them to buy them. You can occasionally have one to play something specific, but the majority should be ones to increase gameplay. Get X assists, get X roll score (siege/hero/healing/tanking).
If you don't have to do anything at all to pass your daily then they're all basically the same. I think all they need to do is add a re-roll option once per day so you can choose to never play a particular role if you want.
It's quite curious why they haven't done that yet, already. It wouldn't take much to implement.
I'm not great with assassins... weakest role by a fair margin... so the assassin daily is just enough motivation for me to dive into QM and work on my tychus and Jaina game (because I want to be good with all roles, if I can't be with all the heroes)... cuz otherwise I pretty much stick to warriors and specialists.
My only issue with the daily system currently is that until Artanis is released I can't do Warrior+SC hero at the same time
well, i agreed with his first tweet, but now i can't tell if he's just being sarcastic.
he said he was soloqing hero league to really see what the players are seeing, so I thought he was venting legit frustration
Is it offside to tweet browder to ask what his Hot Slogs mmr is?
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I'd imagine (competitive) game developers are generally not great at their own games--it's not their job and they don't have time to really devote to playing it that way.
so many dreadful zeratuls on my team this week. i actually thought he was free until i went and looked, had a zera ride around on his mount for 2 entire teamfights back to back against a team with no tanks and no cc instead of killing any of the healers at <20% hp.
and then complained he had no openings. you had an opening to murder /everyone/.
edit: also, I think chen needs to be made unmovable during drinking. not unstoppable that'd be overpowered, but just make it so he can't be bounced, or if he does he can keep drinking. like the old siege talent that hammer used to have. i don't mind getting interrupted by stuns, but stuns and movement abilities is just so many given how important his trait is to him.
well, i agreed with his first tweet, but now i can't tell if he's just being sarcastic.
he said he was soloqing hero league to really see what the players are seeing, so I thought he was venting legit frustration
Is it offside to tweet browder to ask what his Hot Slogs mmr is?
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I'd imagine (competitive) game developers are generally not great at their own games--it's not their job and they don't have time to really devote to playing it that way.
At least early in the game, one of the head developers for SC2, David Kim, was grandmaster rank, which would be top 200 in NA. But I take it that you're right and that's a rare exception.
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and 3 games in a row with zero assassins and zero supports on my team, against a bunch of assassins and in 2 cases, kharazim without anyone support on my team.
wooooooo matchmaking you're the best. triple warrior isn't terrible in qm but not when it's none of the high damage warriors and you also have no support.
well, i agreed with his first tweet, but now i can't tell if he's just being sarcastic.
he said he was soloqing hero league to really see what the players are seeing, so I thought he was venting legit frustration
Is it offside to tweet browder to ask what his Hot Slogs mmr is?
8-)
I'd imagine (competitive) game developers are generally not great at their own games--it's not their job and they don't have time to really devote to playing it that way.
I think it depends. Maybe in general, but I know for a fact some of the Hearthstone devs are really really good at Hearthstone, for example. I mean hell, they even snatched up a former pro player who's a dev for them now (Realz).
I know Dustin himself ain't too great, he's admitted it himself, and maybe that's because of time restraints or maybe he's just plain not good at the game? But again, I think it depends, there's definitely going to be some devs that are really really good and some that aren't too hot.
Edit: Also completely unrelated, but I don't feel like making a separate post, won 3 out of 4 games this afternoon! The first game was super bad. I was playing Leoric on Blackheart's Bay, got chewed out for "not frontlining" during a retreat? Which makes no sense? "better them hit you than us" Except, no! Because I was carrying coins, you doofs. So that game was all kinds of messy and I made mistakes myself, I will admit.
But the next three games were spot on. Had a really good Anub'arak game where my team was always following up on my stuns. Then I swapped over for two Hero League games. Crushed it with Kerrigan, I was playing like a champ. Got a lot of early game ganks with our Uther. Enemy Butcher got low and went behind his gate, I walked right up to the gate and did a blind Combo and got him. Felt good, man. Also later on during a curse, I hopped over a wall for a kill, then Butcher charged me and I Ravaged into him, killing him before he could finish the charge. Then I finished up with a solid Uther game, didn't die a single time! Took Divine Storm, even Divine Hurricane at 20 since we didn't need Storm Shield and I had no need for Redemption.
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and 3 games in a row with zero assassins and zero supports on my team, against a bunch of assassins and in 2 cases, kharazim without anyone support on my team.
wooooooo matchmaking you're the best. triple warrior isn't terrible in qm but not when it's none of the high damage warriors and you also have no support.
and 3 games in a row with zero assassins and zero supports on my team, against a bunch of assassins and in 2 cases, kharazim without anyone support on my team.
wooooooo matchmaking you're the best. triple warrior isn't terrible in qm but not when it's none of the high damage warriors and you also have no support.
Knight, you're doing it again!
Don't forget to breathe, man.
shrug. not really.
edit: ugh. chen/johanna/rexxar/murky/hammer vs butcher/leoric/muradin/raynor/hammer
just end the game before it starts thx. nobody on our team finished with more than 10k damage.
frustrating because i've been having a lot of fun games this week but today has been total shit for matchmaking.
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Nothing makes me more sad than a perfect Maw and my team doing nothing to capitalize in it.
I find it pretty hard to get more than 3 in a maw, but I'm getting better at it. So when it does happen, it makes me so very, very sad to see Nova strike somewhere else. Or Diablo. Or Gazlowe.
I know your ults are up, guys. I was saving mine for it
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I like dailies.
If we're comparing it to Dota 2 then there's absolutely no contest but hots is never going to switch to such a system.
DOTA 2 offers over 100 heroes for free and still makes Valve so much money they play around with gameshow-esque money cannons in the employee break room for fun. Complaining that Blizzard's model is shitty is completely legitimate, because it is. HOTS has the worst monetization model in the whole industry. It also has the best gameplay, so I put up with it, but let's call a spade a spade.
Edit: There's also SMITE, since DOTA 2 never counts for whatever reason.
So, what you're saying is that HOTS is better.
And they're charging more.
Because they're better? :biggrin:
Not all MOBAs are equal or we'd be playing the cheapest one, right? I think Blizzard could be doing far more insidious shit as a F2P game to be honest.
But we're playing this game instead. At what point does a game's quality or attraction to you equate to a higher dollar or time value? Is this not a business they're running?
Dota2 doesn't count because if it wasn't free people would have just stayed with dota the mod.
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sometimes you have players who just can't press buttons i guess.
Also, hots isn't a better game. It is a different game
I've played over half a dozen. HotS definitely has by far the worst spending model.
I think it's the best game and can't go back to other MOBAs, but I have no problem admitting the prices are awful.
(okay, I guess Strife is worse, but does it count if nobody is playing it?)
Like, hots gameplay by itself is absolutely not compelling enough to sit there and grind gold ignoring dailies just so you can unlock things you want to play at any time. The quest system should absolutely not force you to do shit you don't want to do and be the only reasonable method of gold gain daily. It is a garbage system. You can put up with it but it doesn't change the fact that it's terrible and ought to be changed.
The dailies HOTS has implemented are crap.
You should be able to just log in and play a handful of matches to do them, not specifically alter your playstyle around them. I understand they want to get people to try other heroes to get them to buy them. You can occasionally have one to play something specific, but the majority should be ones to increase gameplay. Get X assists, get X roll score (siege/hero/healing/tanking).
there was a system like this for hero leveling ages ago. it was bad and encouraged bad play. the dailies have to be as generic as possible so incentives don't get weird.
edit: ran into a butcher honest to god botting. he never exited lane and never used any skills. it was not a fun match. and it was on garden so it still took 15 minutes because pbbbbbbt.
You're being silly. Of course they're different.
But why would a player play HOTS over DOTA2?
Do the differences in HOTS keep them here despite the slow gold gain and high cash prices? Then to them, it's a better game. If it wasn't, they could go play the other game and have all the heroes they want.
You're saying a diner isn't worse than a steakhouse, they're just different. No, you pay $35 for a striploin at a steakhouse because the experience is better than the $7 steak at the diner. Of course they're different establishments. But one charges a premium that customers gladly pay. Why? Because the steak at the steakhouse is subjectively better to the customer who will pay the premium.
You can say it's because it's Blizzard and people pay no matter what. Then great, Blizzard has built a fantastic brand over the years and it's paying off.
And by more insidious shit, I'm saying they could be doing more and making more money. As in not just cosmetic shit. The mobile game type of F2P crap has made its way to PC games. Saying "they don't have to" doesn't make sense. They're not at "maximum profits" here.
Now see, this post was right up to and after this analogy, at which point you use the entirely wrong analogy and make yourself look like a goose. Seriously, calling DotA2 a diner steak while HotS is a steakhouse steak is both a massive slap to the face to DotA (at least the diners I've been to have always had extraordinarily crappy steak) and not at all lining up with your argument. What you should be saying is choosing between a steakhouse and a seafood place because they're both totally different things.
Basically "HotS is a better game for me than DotA2" is what people are trying to say, which is perfectly valid
"HotS is a better game than DotA2" is what people are saying and is bullshit
Sorry, I'm not equating DOTA to a diner steak. Just trying to exemplify that one can put a higher value on the "same thing".
I'm saying you're playing this game over others because you like it more, right? So saying the other game is cheaper doesn't really work as an argument, because you obviously think this game is better. You would rather play this, despite the difference in price.
So at what point does that deserve a higher value?
Blizzard has power behind their brand and can charge what they charge.
If you think it's outrageous why not play another MOBA that isn't? I think it's because you like this one better. And if that's the case, then I don't think it's reasonable to compare this game's price to another game you would rather not play.
eh, they don't charge for classes in the TF2
The real reason to discount DotA2 from these discussions isn't the DotA1 precedent, the massive UI and bugfix overhauls provided in DotA2 are more than enough to make most players not willing to go back to DotA1. The thing is that Valve is such a ridiculous company with ridiculous margins from the fact that they're running Steam that they are essentially in a Google-like position: they have so much money they can do whatever silly idea they want and can afford the loss if it doesn't pan out.
Like, I'm pretty sure DotA2 wasn't profitable for the first few months, or even years; but Valve didn't care because they're Valve, and it also did things like rope old HoN players into finally installing Steam and losing their wallet to sales. And then Valve figured out what they were doing with cosmetics (they did a lot of legitimate experimentation in how to make them work between DotA, TF2 and CS:GO) and now it is also a cash cow.
If you don't have to do anything at all to pass your daily then they're all basically the same. I think all they need to do is add a re-roll option once per day so you can choose to never play a particular role if you want.
It's quite curious why they haven't done that yet, already. It wouldn't take much to implement.
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well, i agreed with his first tweet, but now i can't tell if he's just being sarcastic.
he said he was soloqing hero league to really see what the players are seeing, so I thought he was venting legit frustration
I'm not great with assassins... weakest role by a fair margin... so the assassin daily is just enough motivation for me to dive into QM and work on my tychus and Jaina game (because I want to be good with all roles, if I can't be with all the heroes)... cuz otherwise I pretty much stick to warriors and specialists.
My only issue with the daily system currently is that until Artanis is released I can't do Warrior+SC hero at the same time
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I know that's a typo, but damn. The idea of 800 games as a daily is terrifying. Better be worth 15k gold.
Twitch Wed-Sun, 2-5pm CST
Is it offside to tweet browder to ask what his Hot Slogs mmr is?
8-)
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
80k at the going rate
I'd imagine (competitive) game developers are generally not great at their own games--it's not their job and they don't have time to really devote to playing it that way.
and then complained he had no openings. you had an opening to murder /everyone/.
edit: also, I think chen needs to be made unmovable during drinking. not unstoppable that'd be overpowered, but just make it so he can't be bounced, or if he does he can keep drinking. like the old siege talent that hammer used to have. i don't mind getting interrupted by stuns, but stuns and movement abilities is just so many given how important his trait is to him.
At least early in the game, one of the head developers for SC2, David Kim, was grandmaster rank, which would be top 200 in NA. But I take it that you're right and that's a rare exception.
wooooooo matchmaking you're the best. triple warrior isn't terrible in qm but not when it's none of the high damage warriors and you also have no support.
I think it depends. Maybe in general, but I know for a fact some of the Hearthstone devs are really really good at Hearthstone, for example. I mean hell, they even snatched up a former pro player who's a dev for them now (Realz).
I know Dustin himself ain't too great, he's admitted it himself, and maybe that's because of time restraints or maybe he's just plain not good at the game? But again, I think it depends, there's definitely going to be some devs that are really really good and some that aren't too hot.
Edit: Also completely unrelated, but I don't feel like making a separate post, won 3 out of 4 games this afternoon! The first game was super bad. I was playing Leoric on Blackheart's Bay, got chewed out for "not frontlining" during a retreat? Which makes no sense? "better them hit you than us" Except, no! Because I was carrying coins, you doofs. So that game was all kinds of messy and I made mistakes myself, I will admit.
But the next three games were spot on. Had a really good Anub'arak game where my team was always following up on my stuns. Then I swapped over for two Hero League games. Crushed it with Kerrigan, I was playing like a champ. Got a lot of early game ganks with our Uther. Enemy Butcher got low and went behind his gate, I walked right up to the gate and did a blind Combo and got him. Felt good, man. Also later on during a curse, I hopped over a wall for a kill, then Butcher charged me and I Ravaged into him, killing him before he could finish the charge. Then I finished up with a solid Uther game, didn't die a single time! Took Divine Storm, even Divine Hurricane at 20 since we didn't need Storm Shield and I had no need for Redemption.
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Knight, you're doing it again!
Don't forget to breathe, man.
shrug. not really.
edit: ugh. chen/johanna/rexxar/murky/hammer vs butcher/leoric/muradin/raynor/hammer
just end the game before it starts thx. nobody on our team finished with more than 10k damage.
frustrating because i've been having a lot of fun games this week but today has been total shit for matchmaking.
I find it pretty hard to get more than 3 in a maw, but I'm getting better at it. So when it does happen, it makes me so very, very sad to see Nova strike somewhere else. Or Diablo. Or Gazlowe.
I know your ults are up, guys. I was saving mine for it
But when it does happen, whooooo boy. And having the pod drop at just the right time and your line of banelings right over top.