9 months later and this video is proving to age like fine wine. The cancellation of the TI-centric battle pass and focus on events that every player can enjoy has given dividends. The Crownfall update has given players who don't even have to pay money to valve free arcanas, treasures and other sets. Not to mention the 7.36 update which changed so much of dota in a very fun and interesting way. And we still have much more content to wait for with the last 2 acts of Crownfall as well as Ringmaster and Bird Samurai. For context: When this video was released in August 2023 the avg. player count was 444K with peak player count of 855K. Now at June 2024, we have an avg. player count 517K with 943K peak player count and 870K players in the last 24 hours. It's funny how dota is "dead" when there's a change that occurs that a player doesn't like.

this is the kind of video that predicts future, when you say it wont die, it will die instead.... thank you Murphy's Law

@Arch3rDota

10 ай бұрын

Haha that would be ironic

Heya, stumbled upon this video, and eanna say BlitzSpanks is exaggerating. Well, he always like that, so take his lukewarm take with a grain of salt. He was fun to watch and all but he forgot that as long as he can find a queue in under 10 minutes in any peak time or valley time, the game is not dead. Dota 2 will never die, or at least, will not die until Dota 3 somehow built. Valve may be slow at their approach, but at least they really think of any changes deeply and thoroughly. Dota is one of the most complex multiplayer game and any small change should be made carefully. I heard that around pandemic Icefrog took some leave for around a year before back to development earlier this year, that's why the game progress is kinda slow. Talking about dead game, I think any kind of game that enables third party hosting will never die. I played many multiplayer games over the years and probably the most fascinating result of what they predict to be a "dead game" is CS 1.6, and boy that game still have playerbase even though absolutely nothing supported the development other than base game price. I left Rainbow Six Siege due to poor game development. I thought after I left the game would just die because the dev kept fucking up the game by introducing bugs and has obvious publishing issues with Ubisoft. But after around a year, I watched a game from Twitch and actually the playerbase is just like before I left. Sure the "money" wasn't as big as before but because many third party TO also supported the esports scene, it's still alive and kicking and I feel somehow happy for the players. While the steam stats shows that the player is around 60-70k ish, but I almost forgot that half of R6S is from Console, which is not calculated by Steam. Good video, positive outlook on the game. I hope the game will stay alive. (It will)

@Arch3rDota

10 ай бұрын

Great point! You're right that even if the game "dies", it will almost certienly stay alive through third party.

From my perspective, the game became very repetitive during the years of covid (2020-2023). It wasn't boring per say, but there was a lack of reasons to change strategies. Heroes, items, and the map was the same for years, little major changes. Until they started work on completely reinventing dota after 2022. Adding new original effects to existing heroes to spice up gameplay, destroying the old map to replace it with a larger and spread out one, and most recently items getting a massive tune up, opening new and multiple build options for every hero. The changes they made over the last year was slow to come, but meant so much toward the enjoyment of the game. I'm excited to see where dota will go in the years to come, it seems like they've got some crazy ideas And I'm all for it

@Arch3rDota

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, I haven't reflected about it a lot but things have gotten a lot better the past two years.

I'm still salty about the interface changes from back in the day. UI skins actually changed a lot and it was enjoyable to scroll through the shared cosmetics at the beginning of every match Now it's modern, sleek, tidy and small with a lot of it missing

@Arch3rDota

10 ай бұрын

Oh I've never heard anyone mention the old UI before. I started a bit too late to experience it myself but I can see that having more options to costumize would be nice

i started playing dota cus my friends need one player to 5 stack on 2020 lol

@Arch3rDota

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like you got invited to a team the first thing you did, pretty impressive

Pyramid Scheme of PAIN HAHAHAHA

I think it will, because players and fans are becoming old now. I can't see Dota being an influence to younger generations.

I don't think we have enough data to say that Dota will never die... That being said it is not yet declining and there is no way it will die in the next 10 years.

@Arch3rDota

10 ай бұрын

True true

what kind of animals and goblins even play dota 2

jesus kristus den där tunga svenska dialekten. kekw.

@Arch3rDota

10 ай бұрын

Haha, du ska bara höra när jag gör mina calls i soloqueue