• Valve Announces International DoTA 2 Championships, Winner Takes $1 Million USD in Prize Money
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Theres a Malaysian team :O
Valve are making MORE new games? What the fuck happened to half-life god damnit.
[QUOTE=madmanmad;31483197]Valve are making MORE new games? What the fuck happened to half-life god damnit.[/QUOTE] It's coming... eventually.
[QUOTE=Matrix374;31483080]Theres a Malaysian team :O[/QUOTE] asians
Publicity at it's finest. Lets imagine that the game sells at 50 USD. This is not mentioning it also sells at 50 euros which is like 70 USD. To make back their gain brutto, they would need to sell (1.700.000/50) = 34000 copies. Now, since it's safe to say they'll only sell it on Steam, that means they get to keep all the income minus taxes. Lets say the taxes are 15% since it varies all around. That means they need to sell 40000 copies to gain a netto gain. The game would sell 40000 without the tournament alone. The tournament will make big eSports companies like Complexity and Evil Geniuses very interested in DOTA 2, and companies like MLG and Dreamhack very interested in taking the game as it will take off really well with this tournament and the fact eSports in the West is growing now, especially with MLG starting to do really well and tournaments like IEM, Dreamhack, Assembly and such starting to do really well in Europe. Since it's fair to assume they'll sell atleast 500000 copies within a month, this is just really good promoting, and you can't call it anything else. Not to mention they'll sell tophats for all champions for $12.49 each.
1 million USD, that is like best prize game tournament ever done
[img]http://thebusinessglue.com/wp-content/uploads/dr-evil.jpg[/img] [i]One million dollars![/i]
[QUOTE=Kendra;31483524]Publicity at it's finest. Lets imagine that the game sells at 50 USD. This is not mentioning it also sells at 50 euros which is like 70 USD. To make back their gain brutto, they would need to sell (1.700.000/50) = 34000 copies. Now, since it's safe to say they'll only sell it on Steam, that means they get to keep all the income minus taxes. Lets say the taxes are 15% since it varies all around. That means they need to sell 40000 copies to gain a netto gain. The game would sell 40000 without the tournament alone. The tournament will make big eSports companies like Complexity and Evil Geniuses very interested in DOTA 2, and companies like MLG and Dreamhack very interested in taking the game as it will take off really well with this tournament and the fact eSports in the West is growing now, especially with MLG starting to do really well and tournaments like IEM, Dreamhack, Assembly and such starting to do really well in Europe. Since it's fair to assume they'll sell atleast 500000 copies within a month, this is just really good promoting, and you can't call it anything else. Not to mention they'll sell tophats for all champions for $12.49 each.[/QUOTE] They wont sell it for that much though, at the most maybe $20 USD as its going to be globally marketed and games don't sell for much at all in Russia or China. In Russia a game would only cost you $10 compared to US where it might be $40 USD.
So uh what is DoTA an acronym for?
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;31484089]So uh what is DoTA an acronym for?[/QUOTE] Dawn of the Ancients EDIT: I meant Defense of the Ancients obviously ahahaha badpokerface.jpg
[QUOTE=Momentum;31484163]Dawn of the Ancients[/QUOTE] Defense of the Ancients
[QUOTE=Momentum;31484163]Dawn of the Ancients[/QUOTE] What
Demonstrably ostentatious Time Abjurations Delightful ornihopter Takes Aim Doom of Titan Assholes
Defense of the Asians.
[QUOTE=Kendra;31483524]Publicity at it's finest. Lets imagine that the game sells at 50 USD. This is not mentioning it also sells at 50 euros which is like 70 USD. To make back their gain brutto, they would need to sell (1.700.000/50) = 34000 copies. Now, since it's safe to say they'll only sell it on Steam, that means they get to keep all the income minus taxes. Lets say the taxes are 15% since it varies all around. That means they need to sell 40000 copies to gain a netto gain. The game would sell 40000 without the tournament alone. The tournament will make big eSports companies like Complexity and Evil Geniuses very interested in DOTA 2, and companies like MLG and Dreamhack very interested in taking the game as it will take off really well with this tournament and the fact eSports in the West is growing now, especially with MLG starting to do really well and tournaments like IEM, Dreamhack, Assembly and such starting to do really well in Europe. Since it's fair to assume they'll sell atleast 500000 copies within a month, this is just really good promoting, and you can't call it anything else. Not to mention they'll sell tophats for all champions for $12.49 each.[/QUOTE] Isn't DotA 2 going to be free to play?
[QUOTE=madmanmad;31483197]Valve are making MORE new games? What the fuck happened to half-life god damnit.[/QUOTE] Everyone knew about Dota 2 like a year ago. It was announced last fall.
I'm pretty sure this isn't Starcraft guys. It will probably be the Russian team who takes this one. Just wait till Starcraft 3, then we'll see all of Korea take place in the tournement.
They should televise this and get John Madden to yell it in english
And now these Chinese folks are abadaabadaabada BOOM! Man, what a play!
I'm a bit confused, is this a tournament for the original DoTA, [I]advertising[/I] DoTA 2 and showing DoTA 2 game-play as well? It sounded like it was a DoTA 2 tournament, which would be silly as none has played it yet.
[QUOTE=Sastion;31485858]I'm a bit confused, is this a tournament for the original DoTA, [I]advertising[/I] DoTA 2 and showing DoTA 2 game-play as well? It sounded like it was a DoTA 2 tournament, which would be silly as none has played it yet.[/QUOTE] it's a dota 2 tournament where the best players of dota play dota 2
I guess that Valve really does have money to throw away after their exploits in Team Fortress 2. I could've imagined a hundred-thousand dollar prize, but Jesus...
[QUOTE=Kendra;31483524]Publicity at it's finest. Lets imagine that the game sells at 50 USD. This is not mentioning it also sells at 50 euros which is like 70 USD. To make back their gain brutto, they would need to sell (1.700.000/50) = 34000 copies. Now, since it's safe to say they'll only sell it on Steam, that means they get to keep all the income minus taxes. Lets say the taxes are 15% since it varies all around. That means they need to sell 40000 copies to gain a netto gain. The game would sell 40000 without the tournament alone. The tournament will make big eSports companies like Complexity and Evil Geniuses very interested in DOTA 2, and companies like MLG and Dreamhack very interested in taking the game as it will take off really well with this tournament and the fact eSports in the West is growing now, especially with MLG starting to do really well and tournaments like IEM, Dreamhack, Assembly and such starting to do really well in Europe. Since it's fair to assume they'll sell atleast 500000 copies within a month, this is just really good promoting, and you can't call it anything else. Not to mention they'll sell tophats for all champions for $12.49 each.[/QUOTE] valve confirmed it'll be using a free2play model
[QUOTE=madmanmad;31483197]Valve are making MORE new games? What the fuck happened to half-life god damnit.[/QUOTE] A different team is working on it. The half life team is still working on HL3 how hard is it to understand that.
It's all that damn TF2 hat money.
[QUOTE=JeffAndersen;31487078]It's all that damn TF2 hat money.[/QUOTE] Not really. Steam is the main source of money for them no doubt about it. But I do not know how beneficial the TF2 MannCo business is, but I'd imagine it gets them a fair share of bonus dosh too. [editline]2nd August 2011[/editline] Actually, Valve hit a jackpot with Steam.
Time to learn how to play DOTA
[QUOTE=Desolategrunt;31487425]Time to learn how to play DOTA[/QUOTE] Some starter tips; First just play it so that you get a little bit of touch for many of the different heroes, so that it's not entirely new-experience for every match you play. then, just try not to die, try to keep up with the levels and experience and money, try to spend the money fast to get gear. look at map for enemies going "miss" and eyes peeled for ganking situations if you got a stunner-sort hero with you.
[QUOTE=koeniginator;31486085]valve confirmed it'll be using a free2play model[/QUOTE] Source, I have yet to see them confirm this.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;31487329]Not really. Steam is the main source of money for them no doubt about it. But I do not know how beneficial the TF2 MannCo business is, but I'd imagine it gets them a fair share of bonus dosh too. [editline]2nd August 2011[/editline] Actually, Valve hit a jackpot with Steam.[/QUOTE] As much as I was kidding I could definitely see them being like "well, these hats got us some extra cash let's further prove we're awesome". I mean literally speaking I'm sure they got their revenue from many sources but how many companies would do this these days? It was just a joke really.
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