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Created 15th March 2011 20:09
(Updated: 15th March 2011 20:16)
I read about the interview yesterday and it suddenly hit me, what the fuck happened to DotA in Europe? (I have no idea how Asian DotA works now, so I will only concentrate on European DotA and companies). 2-3 years ago, DotA was played almost at every big LAN in Europe, especially, as the Swede I am, at Dreamhack. I have always been a classified myMYM fan, I always preferred it compared to GosuGamers. The staff, when I worked there, asked me to go there, on company expense of course.THAT'S HOW BIG DOTA USED TO BE. Remember ESWC 2 years ago? It was played in San Diego or some other city in California, and sponsors ACTUALLY provided the DotA players to fly half across the world, to live in some expensive hotel playing a computer game. THAT'S HOW BIG DOTA USED TO BE. One of the heavy companies in European E-sport was a huge investment company owning almost all heavy franchises, including myMYM. When the financial crisis reached Europe though, the company, along with so many others, turned towards chapter 11 quicker than you could say DotA. In my opinion, E-sport, but mostly DotA lost one of its greatest marketing assets those months. If any of you were active at the time, you would see how much money the company invested in its franchises. For example: The final in MYM Pride Defending League was commented by two paid veterans in E-sport, in a rented studio, with expensive equipment. THAT'S HOW BIG DOTA USED TO BE. Okey, now compare that to present time, when you see a drunken American nerd and his Danish friend beefing under a game, missing most of the action.. And people are actually surprised European DotA has gone to hell? When we talk about newsources, lets take a minute and watch the new DotA monopoly newssite Gosugamers. I of course have a subjective angle at this but here's how I see it: Under myMYM's hiatus, Gosugamers grow to dominate the DotA scene. It was actually popular and people seemed to enjoy writing news and articles (this was 1-1,5 years ago?). How is it now? Two people, one of those two the "DotA Team Leader" is frantically writing the latest news because they "have" to. Noone else consider it worth writing for free on his freetime, and seriously, who can blame him? To prove my point, just look at some of the articles written, real articles with points and opinions from the writer. I can't find any, can you? Or the interviews? Except for the latest well written interview on myMYM with Artstyle, the questions are pathetic, and don't even get me started on the mediocre English used these days. If you are a newswriter, you should atleast have the self-respect to use formal language and proofread your work. Noone will do this though, if you don't have the chance to be paid. To be paid you have to have professionals, maybe even a company behind you. These problems are just top of the iceberg in why DotA is now going to hell in Europe. Until another company wants to invest in DotA, the game will quickly be forgotten when its sucessor comes. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Created 18th November 2008 21:05
Is dota taking to much of our lives? Before we started with dota, how much did we played or sat at the computer compared to this moment? My experiences have led me to the conclusion that dota is taking more time than any other games atm. I'm not jsut talking about dota itself but if you're far into it's nest, you start to idle IRC, you start to write at forum, visit news sites for regular information. My question again, is dota taking to much time? I remember before I started to play dota, I often layed GTA San Andreas together with my friend but my other friend soon lef me into WC3 and dota. Together with him and some else, we started to play A LOT. We sat maybe 4-5 hours a day. You came home, sat and chat with them in ventrilo or IRC until 11 pm. You maybe think its fun but it slowly starting to rise to a addiction. You cant do your regular Real Life stuffs like training, hang out with friends etc.. My question is, when do you know where to stop and is RL stuffs > virtual life? My thoughts //ReageN | ||||||||||||||||||
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Created 14th November 2008 21:18
Hello guys and girls. I have done some research about a particular subject I wish to share with you in some moments. After you have read it, please give me some comments what you think, if you know WHY it is so etc.. I wish to put an article about it soon. To the subject: In my school, like in every other school, its very good to have excellent grades. I always wish to perform my best and thus I try to read much (often I get bored after 20 min or so ^^). If I've read 4 hours on a test and later next day perform, how should I call it, a- ? My friends get a+ and I have to ask them, did you study a lot? They tell me, nooo, like 20 min or so. I didnt give a thought about this until some days ago, when I heard Twisted talk in our IRC. "I had top grades" and I had to ask, "did you study a lot?", he tells me, "not a crap!". When I hear Miracle and Drayich say the same thing when I ask them, I start to become suspicious. I started to ask the other proffesional players. I contacted atleast 10 of them, everybody said; "I learn things very easy". So could your learning ability have something to do with how far you can reach your dota goals or any gaming goals? We all know some of us improve a lot faster than some others. But I always thought about this as a gen brought from an ancestor or too much playing games. To speak clear english; I think everybody who reach the competitive dota scene within a limit time, lets say 2 years, has a bigger learning capability than they (like me) who play and play and dont seem to get better. I mean, sure we get better, but as they have a bigger learning capability, they may learn as much on 6-7 games as "we" do in lets say 20 games. I would say this is pretty much statistically proved. I'm not saying every "genious" is a great player, I'm saying every player is a small "genious". With this I would like to link computer games and school together. If you have a good learning capability in dota, you will have it in school too! Sorry for my english, it may be some spelling mistakes somewhere but I hope you can live with them. I would very much enjoy if you could comment and come with some fact if you got some! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Agree 100% with your blog. Brazil is exactly the same => sponsors "trolling" players, players "trolling" sponsors, managers that don't speak english, poor leagues[...]
Hopefully DotA 2 will make EU DotA scene nice again!
Hopefully DotA 2 will make EU DotA scene nice again!
have ntoo much stuf happening irl....dont have time for it anymore im afraid:(