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He is literally having a public mental episode. Like to the point where even if he was doing it on purpose to "troll" or something it's gone overboard and into problem territory itself. But why he is doing it on an English dota site I have no idea. Why not freak out on whatever the russian version of reddit is instead
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Aug 22, 2016 14:50
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Nevermind apparently he is mostly doing it in russian anywayquote:For real tho, Funnik has posted over 500 posts in his [ProDota topic](http://prodota.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=209771) in the last 3 days (currently 258 pages and counting), most are unreadable for majority of native russian speakers. His avatar was for 2 days "BLAME SPICE" on par with his title. He is flaming hard LoH, Dendi, NS and other CIS personalities while looking like a drunk krokodile abuser.
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Aug 22, 2016 14:52
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Groovelord Neato posted:riot runs every one of their tourneys and has the most popular game in the world and still has nobody on that list. how. Riot => Communist Valve => Capitalist drunken officeparty posted:He is literally having a public mental episode. Like to the point where even if he was doing it on purpose to "troll" or something it's gone overboard and into problem territory itself. If there's anything I've learned from the recent TI, it's that the Russian-speaking community is at least as large as the entire English-speaking community. Love Stole the Day fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Aug 22, 2016 |
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Aug 22, 2016 15:16
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Groovelord Neato posted:riot runs every one of their tourneys and has the most popular game in the world and still has nobody on that list. how. I know more people play their game than Dota, but is there really more money being made in it? I mean, we just saw TI bring in over $80 million. I'm sure that the other majors are much less, but those 4 tournaments together with all the associated hats have got to be over $100 million in revenue.
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Aug 22, 2016 17:06
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You are grossly underestimating the kind of bank Riot makes off waifu skins.
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Aug 22, 2016 17:08
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league is much more popular that dota for casual players but their viewership is pretty comparable on twitch. league peaks higher for their international but generally the viewership of major dota events and playoffs of league splits are really similar from western-speaking sources. the majority of league is played in china anyways, i get the distinct impression the player numbers of league have been dropping (in the west at least) based on the kind of seemingly panicked changes riot has been making. i dont think they're dropping to the point that they're anywhere close to dota numbers but their community is largely against them and most some full time streamers are expecting the game to die in 3-5 years based on the current ladder population and general interest so who knows.
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Aug 22, 2016 17:27
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Craptacular! posted:I never played TF2 until it was an old game, but I never quite got this either since the characters are basically just avatars for poo poo-spewing players. god drat its like you find new ways to show just how loving stupid you are each time.
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Aug 22, 2016 17:33
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alsodrunken officeparty posted:He is literally having a public mental episode. Like to the point where even if he was doing it on purpose to "troll" or something it's gone overboard and into problem territory itself. stop posting about yourself
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Aug 22, 2016 17:52
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Alex Garfield is apparently leaving EG/Alliance/Twitch/etc. Dunno what impact that will have on those teams since I imagine they are too valuable of a name across different games to just fold up or something.
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Aug 22, 2016 19:19
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Only repeat TI champion stepping down, rip
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Aug 22, 2016 19:23
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Radical posted:league is much more popular that dota for casual players but their viewership is pretty comparable on twitch. league peaks higher for their international but generally the viewership of major dota events and playoffs of league splits are really similar from western-speaking sources. the majority of league is played in china anyways, i get the distinct impression the player numbers of league have been dropping (in the west at least) based on the kind of seemingly panicked changes riot has been making.
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Aug 22, 2016 19:28
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the TI prize pool will start dropping in a few years and then the forums will go extremely doom and gloom even if the game remains healthy.
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Aug 22, 2016 19:45
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Incoherence posted:5 years from now is a long loving time, though. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Dota 2 were declining by then as well; they can't keep coming up with new ways to take people's money to increase TI prize pools forever. Hats will live on forever
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Aug 22, 2016 19:48
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Kainser posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the TI prize pool will start dropping in a few years and then the forums will go extremely doom and gloom even if the game remains healthy. Valve can just lie about it and put some (more) of their own money in.
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Aug 22, 2016 19:49
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Kainser posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the TI prize pool will start dropping in a few years and then the forums will go extremely doom and gloom even if the game remains healthy. I can't wait for the "we're sc2 now boys" meme
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Aug 22, 2016 20:00
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Fatal1ty made ~250k playing competitive Painkiller, since when is there money in loving Painkiller
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Aug 22, 2016 20:17
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handsome only face posted:Fatal1ty made ~250k playing competitive Painkiller, since when is there money in loving Painkiller Painkiller had a competitive presence for a little bit because it filled the void where a new good Quake or UT game should've been
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Aug 22, 2016 20:22
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yeah valve could just run some calculations on the expected compendium income/day and artificially inflate the value for a few years so no one notices and then after TI10 deadmaus runs out on stage and the credits roll and then the dota2 servers go offline forever tbh i think the online competitive videogame landscape 5-10 years from now is gonna look pretty interesting (or maybe esports will be entirely hearthstone-likes at that point)
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Aug 22, 2016 20:45
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handsome only face posted:Fatal1ty made ~250k playing competitive Painkiller, since when is there money in loving Painkiller I'm pretty sure Painkiller is the prototypical example of a developer subsidizing its own esports scene. It didn't take off.
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Aug 22, 2016 20:50
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oh i was playing painkiller on the weekend that game fuckin owns
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handsome only face posted:Fatal1ty made ~250k playing competitive Painkiller, since when is there money in loving Painkiller
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Aug 22, 2016 20:56
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Equilibrium posted:I hope my boy funn1k is on the level and not actually losing his mind. Sure looks that way judging from his twitter.
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Aug 22, 2016 23:17
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How are the pro scenes for Smite and hots? I know Smite has like a million dollar tournament but I never hear any hype for it nor are there ever any big spikes on Twitch.
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Aug 22, 2016 23:52
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He claims to have pounced from CIS so maybe he is joining some tier 3 west european team. Kaipi.Funn1k
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Aug 22, 2016 23:56
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Is csgo bigger than dota? Obvii not bigger than league and obvii has less money but I mean viewership wise. Dota League and CS are really the only noteworthy esports imo. Maybe Smash. 2/3 aint bad gabe.They have and will stand the test of time unlike something like Overwatch which is going to poof out within a year or two.
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Original_Z posted:How are the pro scenes for Smite and hots? I know Smite has like a million dollar tournament but I never hear any hype for it nor are there ever any big spikes on Twitch. Viewer number wise they're both dead af
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Viewer number wise they're both dead af Blizzard couldn't build a scene for HotS eh?
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Radical posted:tbh i think the online competitive videogame landscape 5-10 years from now is gonna look pretty interesting (or maybe esports will be entirely hearthstone-likes at that point) there aren't gonna be any actual good competitive games (outside of some fighting games). professional/competitive games is all just marketing now. sc2 would've never gained a scene if it wasn't a sequel to the best comp game ever. hearthstone and overwatch and wow arena wouldn't have any tournaments if blizzard wasn't just spending money on them. i dunno if we're ever gonna have something like brood war or dota again where the game just built up an audience and by happy accidents and some design ended up being really well suited for high level play. Jerk McJerkface posted:Blizzard couldn't build a scene for HotS eh? even by blizzard's standards the game is terribly designed.
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Aug 23, 2016 00:30
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Hope everyone is ready for people playing pitlord poorly tomorrow in their pubs!
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Aug 23, 2016 00:30
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They should surprise us by adding pitlord to captains mode right away.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Blizzard couldn't build a scene for HotS eh? They kinda forced it and it was just too early for that game honestly. There wasn't really that much of a community for it and I feel like blizzard shot it in the foot.
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Aug 23, 2016 00:46
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Radical posted:every blizzard game has a "comp scene" before the game even comes out of closed beta because everyone is expecting the next league of legends but blizzard has never really been able to hit it big in esports without korean support well korea loves overwatch rn
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yeah if overwatch gets picked up by OGN or whatever league in korea its probably gonna do well in the long run
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Aug 23, 2016 00:51
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Yeah, Overwatch has grown more popular than LoL in Korean PC bangs so it may very well end up being the next thing.
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Radical posted:yeah if overwatch gets picked up by OGN or whatever league in korea its probably gonna do well in the long run I thought OGN picked it up already? I remember watching some stream from Korea by OGN on Twitch for Ovewatch a week or two before the release.
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