2011-07-24 02:52, ne0lith wrote:
#6 Typical ignorant fanboy. Dota has a WAAAAAY bigger community in players than LoL, there are more players of Dota in China than there are of LoL in the whole world.

The fact with the streams is that in Dota casual pub players are actually a whole different breed of people than the ones who follow the competitive scene. They are spread over numerous platforms and they are oblivious of any tournaments whatsoever unless they decide to SEARCH for them.

On the other hand, whenever you log into Lol, there's a stream promoted right there, which the most casual player, who has never watched any tournament streams in any game ever, decides to click and "see how the pros play".

You could find pub players who've played Dota for years and don't know what Dreamhack is but almost everyone in LoL knows what it is because it's hard to fuc*ing miss the big announcement when u log in and not to click it

Dota streams from big tournaments have had 20-30k viewers, not to mention that there are usually more streams for the same tournament split across various locations, so you may add a whole bunch of asians who watch their own non-english casts for that. If you compare daily casts with less than 1k viewers to Dreamhack in LoL, you have a problem.

And the ultimate point is that no matter how many people watch LoL streams, the moment Dota2 comes out it's gonna be all what the tournaments care about. The prestige of the company is bigger(Valve >>> Riot), the capital is bigger and the game will be built having competitive matches in mind, not casual ones, like LoL.

So what are those people you keep talking about gonna watch if there will not be tournaments to stream? LoL will go back where it belongs, to the mass of casual games that will be forgotten as the time goes by. But it's funny everytime I see HoN players hating on Dota and using LoL streams as an example of why Dota is dying. Whatever happened to HoN?