Dota 2 release pushed up

Love all the DOTA hate here. Bet they are the ones who'll pick it up on launch day lol.

So IceFrog got paid for DOTA, and for the sequel, nice!

@elancion I was watching my brother play Gears of War 3 in a game mode called Wingman. Some people had dropped out leaving bots. When each round started it became a fight over killing the bots for easy points to get in first place then they went for each other. Things like that hinder the game a bit unfortunately. Though there really is no great way to deal with things.

@Toysoldier34, lets hope that the developers are insightful enough to make sure no perks are earned from killing off an a.i controlled bot. im sure that many of us who have past experiences with other games that provided a.i controlled team members know that its a catch 22 (hit or miss) when it comes to this.

@As-21 Maybe the noob-unfriendly, hateful, impatient, critical, communities of those games?

what is this heresy valve is actually releasing something earlier than expected?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C45gl0WbM-M How could I not resist.

As a feed back there will be a huge Update for Dota2 beta in the End of the month

Releasing Dota 2 now with the beta testing , will be a disaster as i said befor Dota2 have so many flaws mechanichs , like from 6 hours Ago , they managed to Fix some heroes like : Nevermore , they fixed some issues about him Ex: his body , his lvl 1 ability Also the map is kinda small they need to Enlarge it especially in places where you go to the runes and Roshan and many things also i dont Encourage the idea of releasing Dota 2 now or even as a beta Dota2 the Dota Fans will think about it as a weak game

It seems that Valve releasing Dota 2 and CS:GO means they are focusing more on esport and less on traditional SP games like Half Life

With nowhere to go but down, the camera must SUBTRACT ten pounds for Gabe Newell...

Where is Yurnero and Huskar? Damn, they left out the coolest heroes.

If it wont be f2p dont see why to move from LOL HON to DOTA 2

neat

Now that Blizzard announced a later release for Diablo III, everyone wants to release ASAP.

As a DotA veteran playing DotA for my primary and whole high school years (7 YEARS!!!) I wanted to tutor people for money... but "glamour items and titles"? Scrap that career, no ones going to pay for it =( also why can't they just release it NOW and update it like original DotA???

The gamers in Dota Saw many Flaws in the mechanics of Dota 2 but i doubt that the release date will be soon , still there is old and new heroes need to work on them and the UI , even our Team is still sending some Bugs report for Dota2 beta , Wich it need a high system requirement as Ex: if u put Lows quality for the textures ull see the color of the water is black ... ect ...ect

@BotZakafein Get to Summoner level 30, build a competent rune page and play about 100 games. Prior to then, you can't say anything about LoL because the game increases exponentially in complexity by then. Of course it's easier at level 1, the whole point is for newcomers to have as little to learn as possible in their first few games, and the matchmaking makes sure that they don't get slaughtered by high level players that have almost double the level 1 stats that they have through runes.

Given how tolerant online players are of bugs, this doesn't surprise me. They're too happy to report how long they've been a "veteran" of some game, prioritizing that over playing the game when it was actually good.

I'm not super excited about this to be honest, but on another note, wtf is with the "Epic" background music? Why does an interview need background music? It was distracting, as I spent a good 2 min. looking for the webpage or program on my computer that was emitting the noise.

If only the same logic could be applied to Half-Life Episode 3, then gamers could die with a smile upon their faces.

Just give me Half-Life 3 or Episode 3 whatever you're going to call it.

I have to agree with all the half-life fans. who cares about dota it already exists and its free I dont think anyone wants to pay for a game that came out during WC3 which I still find to be better than any of the spin-offs. For that matter F#ck WOW wheres WC4?

I personally think it should be scrapped friggin ADORE valve but League of Legends is completely free and has some of the guys who worked on the original Dota and is constantly updated and has quite few awards under its belt.

dota 2 is just dota with hats and steam

been out of the dota scene for 2 years now.. i think i might go back when this gets released. i hope it has lan though, anyone knows if it has lan?

I think this is going to be a lot of fun. So sue me.

Valve may have thought it's the end of the world at 2012..LOL.

@ Sigil-otaku I stopped reading at LoL player... you realize how much easier that game is compared to DoTA, or even HoN? Anyways, Valve time, how much 'faster' is it really going to be?

Yay!

'Valve is planning to provide a steady flow of updates' Like you did with Half - Life? Make sure you do it quicker than that please Valve, also now the game will release with less characters than the original mod? I'm a league of legends player that wanted to give DoTA 2 a chance but overall I don't see the commitment to this title being very big. They planned a big beta that would see it get the content it needed to even match the original but decide to instead throw it out as soon as possible with less content and hope that's okay? Not to mention it didn't even seem ready when they presented it at the tournament such as animation and sound quality not even being up to par quite yet. Overall I am just not convinced Valve has handled the project well or that I should be interested.

Oh god oh god ghodu;hjsdnaig They have to be making Half Life 3 right now, they have to be.

It's going to be pretty hard to match up League of Legends. I'm also not sure about the idea of substituting bots for players. In all likelihood that's just feeding the other team kills.

Then again, this is Valve we're talking about, I doubt they'd ever do anything half-donkied. It's either going to be really good, or totally donkied.

And if Valve does leave bugs in, chances are they will be fun. Nothing was better than eating a mini gun as a heavy.

Normally, I'm not to interested in games that are PVP based, but DOTA 2 actually looks interesting. The combination of RTS and action is what's interesting. I just hope Valve sticks with what they've said, and makes no single player campaign, since nothings worse then a game with half-donkied single player and multiplayer. To many games have had that. I think devs should just stick with one, and make the best game they can of that.

Why have a bunch of people beta test your software for free, when you can have people pay good money to beta test your software! Screw customers, we have money to make!

Hey, how about bumping up some more Half-Life while you're at it? Pwetty pwease?

LOL "...Valve is going full-steam ahead...". Pun intended? But seriously, I think keeping it in beta for a year is a good thing, even if it's semi-closed - I don't want to buy a game and THEN download updates all the friggen year. Hopefully it's not a trick to make us buy the follow-up new/not-on-release characters as DLC. Right?

If Blizzard pushed the release date for Diablo 3, then I bet people will think its the apocalypse :b

This trying to steal the thunder back from LoL dominion?

really wanna try this good graphic dota. always complaining bout the first dota when playing it with my brother :)

I just read the blog, and there may be less need to worry about unresolved bugs or unimplemented features in the final release of DOTA 2 than the news may suggest. The blog says, "We?re going to take the current version of Dota 2, which has The International set of heroes, and get it out there as fast as we can." It then goes on to talk about how the game will remain in invitation-only beta stage for a while longer with regular new updates, and how gamers could share their gameplay experience without restriction. There is no definite information about paid-to-play mass release.

Wait if Valve time is reversed then that means the Valve time for HL Ep. 3 will collide with the retrogressing one and cause a singularity in the space time continuum thus DESTROYING TIME AND SPACE AS WE KNOW IT!

@therealsomeguy Huh... That... is very weird.

....wait.....valve time is in reverse?

i have played so much League of Legends... to the point of sickness. I am utterly spent in the Moba genre. Shame too, I was SUPER excited for this game a couple months back, now I am trying to stay as far away from MOBA games as possible.

If they don't make this F2P I won't touch it.

Is this how valve time does daylight savings lol?

@elancion Only if the A.I is good will having bots take over for leavers be good. In LOL if a bot replaced someone that is worse than 4v5 unless that bot is worth no gold so it cant just feed.