Free To Play: The Movie - out on 19th of March 2014
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[url]http://freetoplaythemovie.com/[/url]
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[QUOTE]Attend the Premier
Free To Play will premiere on March 18th at 8:00 PM at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco, CA. Tickets are available at Eventbrite. Following the premiere, there will be a live Q&A with the creators and special guests. More information is available at freetoplaythemovie.com.
About the Movie
Free to Play is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, e-sports has surged in popularity to become one of the most widely-practiced forms of competitive sport today. A million dollar tournament changed the landscape of the gaming world and for those elite players at the top of their craft, nothing would ever be the same again. Produced by Valve, the film documents the challenges and sacrifices required of players to compete at the highest level.
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My reaction:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
"Ten years ago, competitive gaming wasn't even a thing."
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck oooooooooooooffffffff
[QUOTE=Warriorx4;43973074]"Ten years ago, competitive gaming wasn't even a thing."
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck oooooooooooooffffffff[/QUOTE]
Quake 3>Dota 2
what are you doing valve
[QUOTE=Durrsly;43973091]Quake 3>Dota 2[/QUOTE]
Only 90s kids will remember this
A part of me wants to slap the guy who said
[QUOTE]"Ten years ago, competitive gaming wasn't even a thing."
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He should have said instead:
[QUOTE]"Ten years ago, competitive gaming didn´t had such big prizepools."
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10 years ago competitive gaming was a thing but now its much much bigger imo
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;43973019][URL]http://freetoplaythemovie.com/[/URL]
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My reaction:
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I'd much rather have an actual e-sports documentary, covering everything from ex-leagues such as CPL to stuff like ESL
Everything that makes esports. This will likely be a pointless 1 game documentary that doesn't really explore the scene as a whole, which is a shame.
This shit actually makes me physically angry
[QUOTE=-Iker-;43973149]10 years ago competitive gaming was a thing but now its much much bigger imo[/QUOTE]
No doubt. That one thing just didn't sit well with me. Moreover,
[QUOTE=Ogris;43973151]I'd much rather have an actual e-sports documentary, covering everything from ex-leagues such as CPL to stuff like E
Everything that makes esports. This will likely be a pointless 1 game documentary that doesn't really explore the scene as a whole, which is a shame.[/QUOTE]
This would be a lot better. Competitive gaming is enormous encompassing fighting games, FPS, RTS; they've been around for a long fucking time going strong. (Well not so much RTS anymore) F2P entered the arena and has definitely changed the game in a big way, but omitting all other aspects of competitive gaming is ridiculous.
Though admittedly it's probably easier to get footage and follow a current, and very large thing like F2P. Yeah that's no doubt it, I'm cool now.
E sports is the worst shit, seriously.
[QUOTE=Ogris;43973151]I'd much rather have an actual e-sports documentary, covering everything from ex-leagues such as CPL to stuff like E
Everything that makes esports. This will likely be a pointless 1 game documentary that doesn't really explore the scene as a whole, which is a shame.[/QUOTE]
They forgot to talk about even Counter-Strike.
It´s a damn shame, really.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43973220]E sports is the worst shit, seriously.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I can get behind the competitive gaming aspect, but the whole "DOTA 2 HXC GAMING SPONSORED BY MOUNTAIN DORITOS GAMER FUEL" shit is just over the top.
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The fact that they didn't even include Counter Strike that was one of the pioneers together with Quake in E-sport makes this movie a joke. Sure, Dota also pioneered it, but the first 6-7 years was DOMINATED by FPS games.
[QUOTE=freaka;43973270]The fact that they didn't even include Counter Strike that was one of the pioneers together with Quake in E-sport makes this movie a joke. Sure, Dota also pioneered it, but the first 6-7 years was DOMINATED by FPS games.[/QUOTE]
Thats because this movie is just going to be one big DOTA advertisement.
[QUOTE=Primigenes;43973248]Didn't Street Fighter have a pretty competitive scene for over 10 years?[/QUOTE]
Yeah but there weren't million $ prize pools or international tournaments for them. They weren't televised or live streamed or anything close to what these new esport tournies are doing now.
Think they'll interview the guy who changes their seatpans?
to be honest, dota 2 doesn't deserve a documentary
they had to do a documentary on the classic Counter-Strike
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;43973312]to be honest, dota 2 doesn't deserve a documentary
they had to do a documentary on the classic Counter-Strike[/QUOTE]
Thing is Dota2 and such are huge fucking things so there'd be more interest in a documentary about such games; and it's no doubt easier to follow a player or four than to try to get older footage of old competitive CS games + there's more interest in Dota2 than CS these days.
Bottom line there's more interest in F2P games like Dota2 which makes doing this documentary all the more viable.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;43973091]Quake 3>Dota 2[/QUOTE]
Thats a pretty strange comparation though, both games have nothing in common
Not something I would want to watch if it was produced by valve.
It's like watching a documentary on micro transactions produced by Peter Molyneux
[QUOTE=Primigenes;43973248]Didn't Street Fighter have a pretty competitive scene for over 10 years?[/QUOTE]
LONNNNG before that
as did many, many other games and genres, anything where you could have multiple people competing head to head or side by side for some measurable score. It's been a thing since pinball and arcade machines started to circulate. Even DDR has had national bracketed competitions in both Japan and the US since the late 90's
Did one of those people just imply that in 10 years or so, competitive gaming is going to be just as big as football?
Because that's so unlikely.
I do agree that you need special skills to actually make a career competitive gaming but there are so many billions of pounds invested in mainstream sports that this could never hope to match it.
This is dumb as fuck.
''My life was such a mess but then i found gaming n im gonna become rich of this~~'' just fuck off, what is this? :v:
This would've been fine if they had made it more DOTA-focused instead of claiming it to be ~THE ULTIMATE ESPORTS DOCUMENTARY~.
Australian dick wrestling is a popular event on ESPN, why don't they make a documentary about that
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43973220]E sports is the worst shit, seriously.[/QUOTE]
What's the difference between traditional sports and esports
Football is equally pointless and those guys make even more money
I saw the movie at TI3. This trailer doesn't do it justice. A lot of the things you guys complained about like, "Ten years ago, competitive gaming wasn't even a thing." are just things the players are saying or random people they interviewed said.
It's actually a really good movie. It focuses on what DOTA is and explains it in terms people who have never played would understand. It goes over Dendi, HyHy, and Fear and them preparing and playing at the first International. They convert moments from games from TI1 into source film maker clips (like what you see in the video.) to go along with certain parts. It focuses entirely on the first International and DOTA 2 in general.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the movie even though I'm a big DOTA fan so I am a bit bias. I just feel like this trailer was not the best representation of the actual movie. Feel free to judge the movie fully when it comes out though.
[QUOTE=LuaChobo;43973643]south korea man
south korea[/QUOTE]
EVEN SO!
football/soccer is played globally even in the poorest parts of the world
I bet even Best korea has it's own football team (hell they probably have their own world cup)
The same simply can't be said for competitive gaming.
I don't get all the hate, sure I might play the game alot and watch alot of the matches so that might be bias speaking.
For example, they never claimed that this would be about ALL e-sports and if you actaully read the description it exactly states what's it about.
Do agree on this "Ten years ago, competitive gaming wasn't even a thing."
But it was WAY smaller though, if you look at the prize pools and chances of actaully making a living out of it
But you are free to have opinions about things and movies are mostly subjective things anyway(not that you have to watch it) although it just disgusts me to see people not even bothering reading the description.
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