Its funny, because the reason I would BUY Dota 2 is if its NOT free to play, if it doesn't have the shitty, insulting business model that LoL has.
That really is all I care about. I'm not much of a fan of the DOTA genre at all in the first place, but if you buy it like a normal game I might just go for it.
LoL has a great business model.
their main profit is designing 'skins' and constantly adding new champs that 'rich' kids willing to buy. the money goes into improving game design, balancing, constant surveillance of servers that is supported by riot gaming.
there are ton of 60$ games that focus on grabbing ur cash and giving u peace of shit to work with. not worth the investment.
-this is the reason more games try to sell 'vanity' items, cash shops, and advertisement to make profit out of existing item and improve it.
free to play is dominating the world of gaming - yielding better business model overall.
(LoL, TF2, Runescape(rofl), GPotato, ijji, and bounch more games)
ofcorse having both initial investment and investment over time is a good model too (such as freken CoD) but there has to be balance.
imo P2P gaming that has subscription will also go downhill once other offer same product for free.
to be honest, unless its free to play i dont think there's a chance that it will bloom out and be "viral" title. Comparing screen-shots, HoN and LoL look much better and were in competition since 2009. during this year LoL has made number of improvements attracting over 18m players and earning the title of #1 game of 2011. on top of that once the season 2 begins, and new "map" dominion comes out it will be something like a bonus to the game...
unless Dota2 is Free to play and has better style/balance/"originality" i dont see it doing well against all popular LoL.
the only thing stands out is the name "Dota".
it also seems that many heroes will be direct copy from dota game and we can only observe how will it do later...
nyway long story short, i am looking forward to try it out and see what it offers me. however i am not yet looking to spend any money on it.
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LoL has a great business model.
their main profit is designing 'skins' and constantly adding new champs that 'rich' kids willing to buy. the money goes into improving game design, balancing, constant surveillance of servers that is supported by riot gaming.
there are ton of 60$ games that focus on grabbing ur cash and giving u peace of shit to work with. not worth the investment.
-this is the reason more games try to sell 'vanity' items, cash shops, and advertisement to make profit out of existing item and improve it.
free to play is dominating the world of gaming - yielding better business model overall.
(LoL, TF2, Runescape(rofl), GPotato, ijji, and bounch more games)
ofcorse having both initial investment and investment over time is a good model too (such as freken CoD) but there has to be balance.
imo P2P gaming that has subscription will also go downhill once other offer same product for free.
unless Dota2 is Free to play and has better style/balance/"originality" i dont see it doing well against all popular LoL.
the only thing stands out is the name "Dota".
it also seems that many heroes will be direct copy from dota game and we can only observe how will it do later...
nyway long story short, i am looking forward to try it out and see what it offers me. however i am not yet looking to spend any money on it.