Blizzard All-Stars MOBA will (probably) be stand-alone free-to-play product

exe3,

Well I suppose you could say it’s doing well the same way Diablo 3 is doing well with their horde of traders trying to make money (there’s items going for like two grand at the moment, keys are the currency and the steam market place allows you to make money). Point is the game is full of bugs, which I understand from the fact it is beta. Point that annoys me is the horribly stupid development decisions such as 5 second pauses, the whole UI, making ghost picking in pugs extremely useless due to the terrible picking screen, lack of updates, balance patches, useless reporting system, focusing a heap of their time on the business model when the game is in closed beta (finish the game first before trying to make money like everyone else please), no hot-fixing meaning game breaking bugs are left in the game until the scheduled 2 week update period (usually just adding items to the shop, the repick feature, a very important feature for general players like me, has been broken for a week and counting). Dota 2 is like Diablo 3 all over again, but the core game is still Dota, it is just everything on the Valve side of things that are terrible (aside from Icefrogs inability to balance).

tucky,

Blatant and blind Valve worshiper. How are they not focusing on the business model, have you seen how much stuff is in the store, the amount of traders and third party trading websites?

The Bastion announcer has an audio popping glitch at Monster Kill, shows that they didn’t even test it when it was finished. Costs $10 too.

**VALVE** DOES NOT NEED MONEY TO FUND DEVELOPMENT!

The community made items have to be implemented to the store. It isn’t even out of closed Beta yet. If it didn’t take them any work to add items to the store, then what the hell do they do at the office? Play the game and drink coffee??? They have a whole damn development team part of a behemoth of a company.

If people have not disconnected but want a pause to go to the toilet for example it is 5 seconds, meaning that if they want to quickly do something, they need to alt f4 to get a proper pause. Rexxar axe glitch, Manta Style illusions with sellable items and OD mana gain exploits are examples of game breaking bugs that took for too long to be fixed. Perhaps if you played more than 50 games you would pick up on these bugs that have occurred in the history of the development. The picking “Card” system is stupid, hard to navigate, and people switch over to the other screen anyway, any hero that you are looking at in the card system will be automatically set as your ghost pick hero, meaning it is hard to determine if people have scrolled to that hero and are still looking for a pick, or they ACTUALLY are going to pick that hero. Reporting system is flawed because A, the ratio of reported trolls to people that actually get action taken against them is incredibly low, and the punishment for them is small, low priority on larger servers have around the same queue as the other servers. You obviously have absolutely no idea how many leavers, trolls and throwers there is in Dota 2. Get your fucking dick out of Valve’s ass and understand the issues you blind ignorant moron.

Look at dota2prices website if you would like to see the prices of the items.

Last balance update was on the 19th of December 2012 /lol.

tucky,

Try disconnect now without closing the game or Alt-F4ing, it was changed probably to stop people rage quiting as easily, you cannot disconnect unless someone else has dropped out for good (good job, once again, did nothing but make it harder for people who aren’t abusing). As for the glitches, perhaps you should look through the change logs to find these glitches, gaining mana back by mucking around with 0 cooldown 0 mana cost abilities/items, if you don’t know about those glitches then that is your fault.

(- “Jan 4th 2013: Fixed RoB, RoA and Radiance proccing Essence Aura”, decided i’d help you seen you are most likely not going to bother. How long has OD been out?! That’s 500 gold for infinite mana when near OD. Thank god not a massive number of people knew about that, obviously yourself)

You cannot edit the card system to your layout, i’m talking about the default screen before you press CTRL or click the grid view. As for the 10% of the work is items, perhaps you are right, but they certainly don’t do much work, look at the updates, most “weekly” updates are just a few bug fixes in the code, could be fixed within a few hours with the size of the team they have. If adding items is 10% of the work, drinking coffee and talking must make up for 80% of the work. Like for god sake, there is spelling a grammatical errors in their updates and news and the Greeviling announcement is still on the side banner (Which was hideously imbalanced and full of afkers who just joined to get quick items). The news gets updated on average like once every two months.. I mentioned the third party websites to reiterate how large the “economy” of Dota 2 is and the similarities it shares with the Diablo 3 trade.
Point is I can’t convince you considering you are a Valve lover, I liked them too (and I still do to an extent) until their prices skyrocketed and I saw the sloppy and lazy development on DotA 2. Truth of the matter is the DotA 2 beta has been a joke compared to any beta I have participated in (I reiterate, this is VALVE, not S2). Can’t believe you are saying none of this exists, it is the epitome of blindness, in fact it is ironic because your blindness is proving what I say about you being a fan boy. Especially when you say all of the stuff I said was bullshit but then you agree with me that the card UI needs work, after saying that the UI is fine. Are you that stupid seriously?

*Update, Valve closes DotaBuff… lmao*