SC2 is good, but come on. There is nothing fresh or new or exciting about this game. It looks like something made by Zynga with a bigger sound budget. Go on, name one thing that Hearthstone does better than any other AAA game, let alone anything that hasn't been done before.
MASSIVE SUBJECTIVITY ALERT: As someone who watches pro Dota matches daily, I am confident that the scene is going nowhere but up. It's been slowly exploding ever since The International 2. I think the finals for the G-League, the most recent "big" tournament, drew nearly 80,000 spectators across...
But you're forgetting the vague "trust" factor inherent in all public holdings. We, as long-standing customers and general fans of Valve and the things they do, understand that the business they run is positively insular - and I mean that in the best way possible. But to Regular Business Folk™...
I agree with most of what you say, but I have to take enormous issue with this. Being a publicly-traded company means sating your shareholders, which means providing acceptable ROIs at the end of every financial year, which means you ultimately have very little leeway in how you spend your...
That said, I'd rather Valve has a strong stake in e-sports than Riot or KeSPA/ActiBlizz. As plodding and cherry-picking as their development process is, they understand how to a) not piss off their customers with profiteering, b) empower content creators and competitive players with something...
If it weren't for Valve, Unknown Worlds, and uh........ hm....... I wouldn't play any new videogames ever. Part of it is a symptom of "public" ownership, a.k.a. let's-enslave-our-company-to-the-whims-of-people-who-don't-understand-the-industry-and-only-want-to-make-a-buck-on-stocks, which lends...
Being not from Recluse Country, I just let the spiders roam around unless they cause problems like making huge webs or being near beds/furniture or being a colony of 50. If I see one crawling across my monitor or something, I just move him onto the floor with a piece of paper.
If I saw a Brown...
And all on the same engine. And this is exactly what Danger Close (wholly owned by EA) and EA DICE do now. 2010, Medal of Honor with DICE-developed multiplayer on Frostbite 2. 2011, BF3 on Frostbite 2. 2012, MOH: Warfighter on Frostbite 2. 2013, BF2143 on Frostbite 2. 2014, MOH: Sequel on...
I'm thinking of doing some Dota 2 casting in the next month or so. I got re-addicted to the scene after taking a 2 month ish break, and I feel like I'm almost at the point where I could actually be pretty good at it. I understand basically all of the metagame and have most of the heroes down...