Our State of the Game series returns this month with a check-in on Dota 2 - a juggernaut of a game that rumbles on in spite of some occasional inattentiveness from Valve
This is the curse of the Dota player. The good times in Dota are so good, that it takes a lot to make you stop playing. Hours of miserable, soul-crushing games are easily forgotten when you win an hour-long war where you know your actions played a big part in that.
A screenshot of a ward that confused the author so much they had to load up the replay to figure out where it was. |But as the weeks have gone on and Valve has made some small changes, including hilariously muting every single player by mistake, which might be the best change ever, there seems to be a fundamental problem with this new version of Dota; the early game is more important than ever.
As tournament organisers try to cut costs, most of the English language broadcasts for the top online regional leagues have been taken out of their in-person studios to go fully remote. Of the three Majors this year - international LAN events that give qualifying points for the big global championship, The International - only one has been held in a traditional stadium, and the other two have been plagued with technical issues.
If, as I expect, the ESL events consistently have better production and more money on offer than the Pro Circuit then I would not be surprised if Valve kills it off in a year or two and allows ESL to just run whatever they want without having to pay any money out to the pro scene other than TI. It would make business sense and would remove a decent amount of work which they seemingly aren't interested in doing.
Outside of Valve, there are some Dota-themed games that are doing pretty well. The custom game system inside of Dota 2 allows anyone with some technical know-how to create games in the Dota engine and use Dota assets. It was this system that gave the world Auto Chess and spawned the auto battler craze, and despite not being massively popular in the West, there are some fun options still being made. I'd point out Overthrow 3.
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