787437 No.14693146
Dota 2 is finally dying along with the other ASSFAGGOTS games. https://archive.li/stBO7
787437 No.14693147
>Dota 2 reached its peak number of players in December 2016. Nearly 14M people logged in that month to play the 7.00 update, which included a new hero and the introduction of new gameplay mechanics (hero talent trees and significant map changes). The excitement over the update didn’t last long, however, and 1M players abandoned the game two months later. In the year since, the number of monthly players has continued to fall to 10.6M in February 2018, a loss of almost a quarter of its peak player base.
And remember that this doesn't account for the fact the 'hardcore' players all have multiple accounts so they get counted multiple times. Now we just have to wait for counter strike to die and (((Valve))) might actually go back to making games.
df83e5 No.14693148
>>14693146
Yes. In favor of Battle Royal trash. You're celebrating far too early faggot
bfce87 No.14693150
Go away you fucking nigger
175b04 No.14693156
Won't last, I hate to say. Valve has an obscene amount of money on their hands and they are intent on using it to kill gaming.
b0493a No.14693158
>14 million down to 10.6
Woah oh my god!
Call me when it drops below 8 and it might be worth discussing
787437 No.14693160
>>14693148
I'd take those games over Dota since at least Valve doesn't get the money from them.
b0493a No.14693167
>>14693160
>i would support the literal chinese chinks over Valve
Nigger Valve is a street con artist compared to Tencent, this is just cancer feeding into other cancer
787437 No.14693173
>>14693158
That's 25% of their userbase in two years.
>>14693167
Valve have a near monopoly on the PC market because people didn't know better and they had no competition. If they go down and take Steam with them people will spread out to other clients and competition is only good for the consumer.
bcf15f No.14693176
Anon, dota survived for years, several years, with a core playerbase of people autistic enough to keep playing on janky multiplayer programs to circumvent having to use bnet to play a warcraft 3 mod. Now it has a comfortable client and actual professional support. Of course the numbers will go down but that shit is never going to die.
b0493a No.14693189
>>14693173
Its still a fucking huge playerbase.
>Valve has a near monopoly on the PC market
Nigger do you know how big Tencent is?
They can buy out Steam in its entirety if Valve was willing to let it go. There simply isn't comparing, Steam is fucking small potatoes to Tencent.
fc413b No.14693190
>>14693173
>competition is only good for the consumer.
yea I love having multiple accounts for multiple distributers on multiple sites and multiple clients installed on my computer.
029380 No.14693196
>>14693146
>dota 2 is dying
Welcome to two years ago.
Now all of the chinks and Russians that invaded Dota 2 have gone to Battle Royale garbage. Same cancer, different genre.
031ea9 No.14693197
>>14693176
>>14693190
>>14693158
>>14693150
The Valve shills are on point today I see.
58996b No.14693199
>no quotes from the page
>no context
>shitty le pickle rick picture
God dammit every time cuckchan goes down we have to suffer this trash. FUCK OFF NIGGERS
b0493a No.14693205
>>14693197
I hate Valve with a passion but this just isn't important enough for me to care
787437 No.14693206
>>14693199
>no quotes from the page
Are you retarded?
>>14693190
Ideally people will start supporting companies with optional clients like GoG.
>>14693189
If they could why haven't they done so?
>>14693196
>Now all of the chinks and Russians that invaded Dota 2 have gone to Battle Royale garbage. Same cancer, different genre.
Were chinks ever that big of a thing in Dota? I know the Russians were but not the ant people.
b0493a No.14693212
>>14693206
Valve is a privately owned company, and they don't want to sell for whatever reason.
bcf15f No.14693215
>>14693197
Are you stupid? Do you eat shit? I'm not defending the game or valve, I'm saying OP is a retard for thinking the game will die. This is similar to threads we've had for years saying WoW is dying. Millions more people will stop playing dota but you're fucking nuts if you think a game that used to be a warcraft 3 mod that survived on shitty chinese multiplayer clients will go away any time soon.
You're so fucking retarded you're defending an OP who used a pickle rick image to make his thread. Fucking think before posting.
b0493a No.14693217
>>14693190
this is the definition of laziness, you are the enabler to the cancer of everything we see wrong with the gaming industry
bfce87 No.14693218
>>14693206
Stop desperately trying to keep your thread alive, cuckchan nigger, just pack up and go.
940c0b No.14693231
>>14693206
Chinks were a MASSIVE thing in Dota, for a while Dota to them was like what Starcraft is to Koreans.
b0493a No.14693234
>>14693231
but now don't koreans dominate the assfaggots scene too?
58996b No.14693238
>>14693206
This is how you make a proper OP you fucking faggot. No one wants to have to click to an external website, even if it is archived. The archive exists as a citation. You should include as much information from the article in your OP as it has spaced for thousands of characters. You should also include any relevant images. Your OP can even contain multiple images if necessary. Instead you decide to post some reddit meme picture. The amount of effort needed to achieve this is incredibly minimal, and yet still you were too lazy to muster it. This is why people are telling you to fuck off back to cuckchan.
Dota 2 is finally dying along with the other ASSFAGGOTS games. https://archive.li/stBO7
<Dota Plus may be too little, too late for Dota 2’s disappearing player base
>With a dwindling number of players, Valve started to make changes to make sure those 10.6M stick around. First, the developer publicly committed to releasing updates every two weeks to address player complaints over long update droughts. In a second, more ambitious move, it introduced Dota Plus.
>The service, which costs $3.99 per month, was initially met with some confusion. Some members of the Dota 2 community believed that Plus Assistant should be available for new players and should not be locked behind a paywall. If anything, Dota Plus makes the game even less attractive for new players. That’s because Dota Plus isn’t meant to attract new players. It is designed to keep active users playing, and more importantly, paying.
19a52b No.14693242
>>14693147
>And remember that this doesn't account for the fact the 'hardcore' players all have multiple accounts so they get counted multiple times.
This is such a miniscule amount of padding, it's just full of asians and south americans extra accounts are not even remotely a relative factor
429b22 No.14693250
>>14693146
Good riddance.
>>14693238
This would have definitely been a better OP.
e6a1e6 No.14693264
>>14693197
in order for anyone to give enough of a shit for something dying you must have given enough of a shit for it when it was alive,in order to do that you must've bothered to play it first at some point and if you have played assfaggots at any point in your life then you deserve all the bully you get and have only yourself to blame and nobody else
bf9899 No.14693268
Even 1 player would be more than it deserves after that tournament disaster 2 years ago.
8c156f No.14693275
>>14693268
>Tournament disaster
What happened?
Was it the surrender?
787437 No.14693279
>>14693238
Sorry I'm not used to making OPs. If a vol is here could they please edit the OP to have all the proper details?
>>14693231
Right I never actually played much of it.
>>14693242
From my slightly larger experience with other ranked games anyone serious has at least one alternate account and usually a third for fucking around with lower ranked friends. This goes for actual white people too.
>>14693268
Wait what?
f812e7 No.14693284
>>14693146
That's great and all, but is the most cancerous of ASSFAGGOTS dying too?
bf9899 No.14693285
>>14693275
I don't know the specifics but.
>big tournament
>Valve barely puts any money into it at all
>technical issues out the ass
>some host guy they hired had to fill dead air because of it
>game finally starts
>guy is fired almost immediately
>everyone freaks out
>Gabe himself makes a post on reddit calling the guy an asshole and pretty much nothing else
>guy posts chatlogs proving he did literally nothing wrong
It was near paid mods level fiasco but everyone forgot about it within a month.
bf9899 No.14693304
>>14693285
I forgot to mention the dead air in between matches was in the ballpark of 2 to 4 hours. The guy had a whiteboard and was talking constantly like John Madden all day.
10b10c No.14693316
league made an additional $500M in profit last year though.
74a839 No.14693334
>>14693316
League of Legends isn't dead yet? I'm genuinely surprised
45fcbb No.14693346
It'll come back when Artifact releases, and I'm gonna laugh at every single one of you
8c156f No.14693368
>>14693346
Why? Artifact is going to be shit.
The card game market is already overly saturated.
Just because Richard Garfield makes gold happen with card games doesn't mean he can make a card game with a shitty 'lanes' mechanic work. It's overly complex.
58996b No.14693375
>>14693346
>I'm gonna laugh with every single one of you
ftfy
04aa13 No.14693512
>literally just some months before they released DOTA GOLD
Guess all those BRs and Ruskies felt left out
c7f5df No.14693556
>>14693146
7.00 was a mistake.
ef8b03 No.14693769
The game peaks at 700k a day. The OP is a faggot
aa4c43 No.14693805
>Steadily gaining players year after year
>7.00 drops
>Freefall from then on
>Tee hee better keep the course and just try even harder to LOLify the game that'll increase our numbers for sure :^)
Fuck you Gabe, you fat kike bastard. 7.00 was a steaming load of elephant shit.
2db58d No.14693943
>>14693146
Speaking of dying userbases, how is wow doing?
7aa1a3 No.14693963
>>14693147
I quit because of 7.00. I couldnt put a finger on what but the game seemed to be a lot less fun after. Probably because they gutted the heroes I liked and the ones left over were boring.
089c5c No.14694312
>>14693963
>I quit because of 7.00
a2f9b0 No.14694351
>>14693334
That shit is huge in China and Worst Korea. Plenty of whales to be hauled out from the fresh ocean. Also Riot is owned by Tencent (huge ass Chinese company that also has huge share in Epic) right now so yeah. I guess 5~10 more years until it dies.
4b4eb4 No.14694432
>>14693146
Yeah, if it keeps dying at this rate it probably wont be all that big anymore 10 years from now.
06ea74 No.14695043
359454 No.14695284
PUBG/Fortnite is the new hip trendy shit that normalfags congregate at.
e38eca No.14695306
bf9899 No.14695444
>>14693943
Up from the last expansion last I heard but still not even half of what they had 10 years ago. They haven't even been putting out numbers for over a year now.
999daa No.14695715
>>14693156
Valve still makes an obscene amount of money from this game. Imagine all of the money made from TF2 after loot crates came out. Now imagine an even richer man laughing as he burns that pile of money because it is insignificant. That's Valve after Dota 2. It's pure fucking profit margin.
999daa No.14695730
>>14693238
>Dota Plus may be too little, too late for Dota 2’s disappearing player base
It's not there to attract new players, it's there for fucking whales. It adds all of the right cosmetic bullshit that whales love to use to lord over the unwashed poorfag masses.
3d8c1f No.14695754
>No region lock
>Custom games are fucking dead
I'm not going to even bother playing this shit before they actually put some attention in it instead of just HEY LOOK NEW SKINES WOW
8600dd No.14695779
031ea9 No.14697821
>>14695754
Chinks and Slavs are worth more money than you, why would they punish them?