• League of Legends surpasses 5 million concurrent players
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[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;39957553]Towers less dangerous? Have you even played LoL and Dota? LoLs towers are way more dangerous than Dotas by a long shot.[/QUOTE] Yes, I have. I've also explained my reasoning a few posts above.
league is for babies and dota is for babies with an ego
I'm not surprised at all with how this thread turned out I play Dota, but why do some people have to fight about the two games? Wouldn't you just learn to accept that some people enjoy different games than you do? Live and let live and all that stuff.
I think I'd play Dota 2 more than LoL if it didn't have its map placed in the most horrible spot possible. I always end up clicking on the minimap while trying to run away from the enemy, which gets me killed.
[QUOTE=dark soul;39964348]I think I'd play Dota 2 more than LoL if it didn't have its map placed in the most horrible spot possible. I always end up clicking on the minimap while trying to run away from the enemy, which gets me killed.[/QUOTE] I feel the opposite. I played LoL for about 2 years, then dota 2 since it first went into beta, and after I played LoL I hated the map placement. It sounds petty but its so much faster and easier to glance at the Dota 2 minimap than LoLs and to me makes a huge difference.
I think it's a matter of preference and that both games ought to have that be an option. Myself, I'm ambidextrous, and prefer the map on the same side as the hand I have on the mouse at the time. I'd love for both games to have their UI be up to the player. For example I'd love to have the abilities stuff moved out of the way of the bottom of my screen- I know what they do, the keys activate them, etc.
Kinda curious, that this kind of thread-shitting only happens in the Lol threads and never in the dota ones.
[QUOTE=OldFusion;39966226]Kinda curious, that this kind of thread-shitting only happens in the Lol threads and never in the dota ones.[/QUOTE] because theres fewer reasons why league would be a superior game over dota so you cant get a good argument going there
[QUOTE=OldFusion;39966226]Kinda curious, that this kind of thread-shitting only happens in the Lol threads and never in the dota ones.[/QUOTE] i'm sure you could start doing it they would probably love to oblige you
[QUOTE=Naught;39966229]because theres fewer reasons why league would be a superior game over dota so you cant get a good argument going there[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Naught;39958455]league is for babies and dota is for babies with an ego[/QUOTE] :v:
[QUOTE=Elspin;39966270]:v:[/QUOTE] you didnt see anything
[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;39966212]I think it's a matter of preference and that both games ought to have that be an option. Myself, I'm ambidextrous, and prefer the map on the same side as the hand I have on the mouse at the time. I'd love for both games to have their UI be up to the player. For example I'd love to have the abilities stuff moved out of the way of the bottom of my screen- I know what they do, the keys activate them, etc.[/QUOTE] There are UI mods for LoL and I'm sure DotA2's UI can be modded too since Source is very versatile. [url]http://leaguecraft.com/uimods/[/url] Make sure to back up your game folder just in case because I've had mods break my game when I used to use them.
[QUOTE=ashxu;39966422]There are UI mods for LoL and I'm sure DotA2's UI can be modded too since Source is very versatile. [url]http://leaguecraft.com/uimods/[/url] Make sure to back up your game folder just in case because I've had mods break my game when I used to use them.[/QUOTE] Jesus christ what [img]http://img2.leaguecraft.com/uimods/asset/uimod_760px_1283.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Elspin;39966541]Jesus christ what [img]http://img2.leaguecraft.com/uimods/asset/uimod_760px_1283.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA85IsVR6Zo[/media]
[QUOTE=Elspin;39966541]Jesus christ what [img]http://img2.leaguecraft.com/uimods/asset/uimod_760px_1283.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] If you want an explanation... When you select Draven in champ select, he happens to say "[url=http://imgur.com/a/n8vc6]Welcome[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyIyrB_m06A]to the[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaALQCdhDXc]League of Draven[/url]." It's been turned into a joke by players, the most popular examples are linked above. The video posted above pretty much explains it all though I GUESS.
[QUOTE=Silversoda;39966751]If you want an explanation... When you select Draven in champ select, he happens to say "[url=http://imgur.com/a/n8vc6]Welcome[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyIyrB_m06A]to the[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaALQCdhDXc]League of Draven[/url]." It's been turned into a joke by players, the most popular examples are linked above. The video posted above pretty much explains it all though I GUESS.[/QUOTE] I've been playing league of legends for over 2 years, I get [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtltD2jNpRQ]the joke[/url] :v:
[QUOTE=OldFusion;39966226]Kinda curious, that this kind of thread-shitting only happens in the Lol threads and never in the dota ones.[/QUOTE] Because most Dota players are elitist bastards that feel the need to say they're better than everyone else at every opportunity they get.
dota 2 has 3,120,153 unique players this month
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;39957581]I havent had shitty people like that in so long because of being in the very high mmr bracket. Best part is, no Russians or BRs, only Chinese now and they are good.[/QUOTE] I played against a Chinese person once. It was awful. [editline]19th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Silversoda;39966751]If you want an explanation... When you select Draven in champ select, he happens to say "[url=http://imgur.com/a/n8vc6]Welcome[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyIyrB_m06A]to the[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaALQCdhDXc]League of Draven[/url]." It's been turned into a joke by players, the most popular examples are linked above. The video posted above pretty much explains it all though I GUESS.[/QUOTE] So he's basically the LoL equivalent of Invoker. They'd be good friends.
I rather have dota2 kept at 300,000 peak players. That's the better base of MOBA players, more mature and skilled (?).
If this was the dota stats and praise thread then it would say "dota stats and praise thread." The games don't differ in their levels of maturity and referencing skill is a moot point. They are video games (both of which are free, and yes Dota 2 classes as a free game when there's probably almost at least one invite for every active user on Steam who doesn't have Dota 2 yet), of course there are going to be good and bad players and everything in between. They both have active development teams working to keep the game maintained and up to date on a technical level, and they both have teams dedicated to expanding the community and encouraging said community to teach new players, NOT limiting the amount of players that can access the game to a certain number who are designated as "mature" and "skilled." MOBA is seen as a genre for immature people because of the vision that only the "elite" get to play it because they are the ones who haven't been banned by the maturity and skill detector. That's just not how a good and healthy game and its community works, so thankfully Valve and Riot don't share your marketing plan.
I don't understand whats so much fun about these games, theyr're essentially all identical except for a few minor differences.
[QUOTE=Kung Fu Jew;39791030]Casual-competitive playtype. Games that are built to be a sport but can be played or practiced any time. Before CS:GO's organized matchmaking, Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source both had pay-to-play matchmaking systems like ESEA, where people honed their skills for competitive play. Before Dota 2, League of Legends, and Heroes of Newerth, there was Warcraft 3's Defense of the Ancients map. Warcraft 3 is an RTS, MOBA games (or multiplayer online battle arenas) are also known as Action RTS. What RTS and competitive FPS have in common is that they require strategy, skill, and communication. You learn what makes a victory and then you work on what you've learned from your mistakes, whether it's metagame imitation or in fact creation. That's strategy. You train your reflexes and muscle memory to become faster so that less people are able to take you by surprise and even if you do get taken by surprise, you can mitigate the effects of what happens. That's skill. You learn how to make your team respond to you better when they need to help you and you also find out how to have other people react quickly to stimuli you've created either in words or in actions, but at the same time, how to avoid angering them or making them feel patronized. That's communication. These are all things humans crave- strategy makes us feel cunning, skill makes us feel alpha, communication makes us feel passionate. Doing them properly, at least. So when you do them wrong, you feel like an idiot, and that's where most people end up getting angry at these game, whether they be good or bad at it, because they can't handle losing and get too anxious over mistakes. In time, if they're open enough to realizing their issues, they can overcome them and improve. As a rule, no one is the best at anything. The fun factor is in the tough truth that someone out there is better and you have to keep practicing, consciously so, if you want to win against them. As for the kind of people who play casual-competitive games, you have the egotists who serve themselves, they blame their team for losses and applaud themselves upon victory. Then you have friendly people, who are a lot of fun to be around. Sports bring out the extremes of peoples' behavior. When you watch a sport on TV there is always the athlete who gets the camera on him for having a very forlorn look on his face after the other team scored some points, or worse, when his team lost the game. It's the same thing here in any competitive game- you can really learn a lot about other people by playing with them for extended periods of time, just like how when you play a sport with your friends, you can learn who plays dirty, who is sportsmanlike, and so on and so forth.[/QUOTE] That is why. In shortform at least. Essentially, yes, they are similar games. If you want to find out and that wasn't enough to elaborate, you may as well try them out with a friend or two- they are, after all, both free games, and you won't get decimated automatically because both games have a system where you start out with people who *should* be your skill level.
[QUOTE=DontDoShit;39968341]dota 2 has 3,120,153 unique players this month[/QUOTE] This isn't about unique players, this is about concurrent players - all the players online playing at once. The amount of unique players per month for league of legends was around 32 million I believe, in a rather old statistic that's gone up by quite a bit.
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