The International 2019 now officially has the largest prize pool for a single tournament in eSports history at over $30...

1.6Mil

dota2.prizetrac.kr/international2019

So wait. Dota cucks actually bought over 100 million $ worth of shit?

yes
blame TF2 for introducing hats

I legit never played another video game since I started playing DotA 2 in 2013. I remember I got into the game after ti3, I think it was the patch when spirit breaker was op and drow's aura used to give all creeps and hero constant global attack damage buff at no cool down.

Fun times I still remember thinking Riki was an op hero back then kek

Yes, Valve are being cunts about it tho. Before, they would offer cosmetic items which were tradeable on the market after about 6months. Lately, they have eben offering cosmetics that say WILL NEVER BE TRADEABLE OR MARKETABLE so idiots are gobbling up items to have them rather than waiting a year and trading

Embarrassing. Not because of the amount. But from that, Valve could support weekly thousands dollars tournaments to help local communities thrive, establish some proper esports school or some shit and just do pretty much anything. Instead, they are giving it to like 20 guys and that's it?

P much. Lots of pros get mad at Valve all the time for not gettign involved in the smaller tournies and shit. Years ago, they introduced guaranteed invite spots for certain teams if they do well enough in their smaller year round tournies called majors whcih pissed off the community because it pretty much ensures that 6 well established teams will always have a slot instead of fresh blood

>go from mediocre shooter games to the biggest export of all time

Is there a developer that’s gone from rags to riches more than Valve?

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Blizzard maybe. But they're on a slow downward spiral now.

post >yfw you realise this is only 25% of what people paid

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It's genuinely amazing to see a post where every little thing is completely wrong.

I could be wrong but I swear I heard about the devs behind Fortnite about to close the game at one point but then they made their BR mode and voilà

so valve basically made 1.2 billion dollars and 30m of that goes to the prize pool
fuciking hell

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Dota players aren't video game players, they're just dota players. Most other games have an audience that branches out a bit.
They also trend towards autistic.

120 million actually

The Dota fanbase is made up of chads. There's literally some Serbian Prince that casually brags about how he gets personally invited to many Dota tournaments and that he dumps shitloads of money into the compendium.

thanks

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Retarded Normalfags will latch on to almost anything if there is enough fake hype build around it.

Dota is a strange beast. I love every bit of it though

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development hasn't been abandoned.
it's just taking " a significant amount of time".

The guy that wrote the system jumped shipped right after it came out, it's fucking over user

Valve could support weekly thousands dollars tournaments to help local communities thrive

there are e-sports basically every 2 weeks in the dota scene

yeah they cant figure out how to turn the fucking shit into a game

Garfield was always supposed to fuck away after the launch. that guy's job is just designing core rules then go shilling his curriculum on some other poor fucking company who will bankrupt themsleves thinking his name guarantees their card game will be "the next mtg".

I've never met a normalfag that knows what dota is. Even the "hardcore gaymur" types.
I also live in the first world which may explain why.

>Free 2 Play
>98% Russian and Brazilian
>Mechanically simpler than LoL

Of course it has a ridiculous player base. You can play Dota completely and utterly shitfaced and still stomp.
Dota 2 has never been a "hard" game. It's the same reason Overwatch is extremely successful. Even the shittiest players can do well with a little bit of team work.

>You can play Dota completely and utterly shitfaced and still stomp.
can confirm lmao

delusional b8
overwatch isn't successful

a saudi prince also bought like 5 million worth of battle pass level

Now it has a bigger influx of Peruvians, last tournament there was a video about how Peru is filled with cafe internet where peruvians only play dota 2.

>Mechanically simpler than LoL

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Normalfags play LoL, Fornite and PUBG

i started in 2012 but quit on reborn

I get what he means, the hard part of Dota in professional setting is the drafting, some heroes are very hard, most aren't, but pros still require just as much mechanical skill as LoL for clutch situations / item management (less now with the noob friendly extra item slots and shit)

>mechanically simpler than LoL

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The hard part in Dota is thinking.
The hard part in LoL is putting up with bugs and slamming your keyboard.

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How is backpack noob friendly? I only saw it benefit pro players as shitters can't deal with choice

LoL is literally casualised DotA. Literally. They looked at Dota and went "which mechanics can we take out so that the most players will play this game"

>Overwatch isn't successful
>Carries more players than CSGO on PC, PS4, and Xbox
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's still not the most played Shooter there is, bud.

>LoL is literally casualised DotA
>DotA 2 is literally casualised LoL
DotA 1 and 2 are very different games, my guy.

>Yet the scene still can't support more than the top ~12 teams in the world

its not really healthy and the battlepass seems to be propped up by insanely toxic mentally ill whales who complain all the rewards aren't available NOWWWWW, more than giving a single shit about "supporting the scene"

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>source: dude trust me
there's a reason blizzard doesn't do player counts anymore

dota 2 was a direct port of dota 1
it changed with patches, sure, but dota 1 changed with patches too

>There's a reason Blizzard doesn't use a third party API from a third party website to track players who just have the game open and not actively playing
CSGO has 447,486 players currently
PS4 and Xbox have more than that on EACH console, and then probably half on PC
Epic/Fortnite doesn't do player counts either and that actively has a million+ players a day.
Keep being a contrarian faggot and hating a game because it's the "Cool" thing to do here.

>source: you guys I'm seriously

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Riot developers themselves literally cried over Dota 2 not changing anything from Dota 1. You failed.

HotS is casualised LoL

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His steam profile is weeb shit and he has every baby roshan courier in his showcase.

>Mechanically simpler
dilate tranny

>play league
>most of the items dont even have actives.
>every disable is like half a second max in duration
>everything scales hard so timings are meaningless
>no glance value at all for the heroes

How do people even play that game?

>All those fights I had with my internet friends because of Dota 2
Is it that hard to place a fucking ward, Freddy

Biggest digital games seller using a sales scheme to fund the prize pool

>tfw my name is kyle
>I’m the one yelling at my friends
mobas aren’t healthy

> How does this happen?
Chinks.

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People don't play lol
Asians do

Noooooo. It cant be happening. Valve supposed to be chink free.

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