See, I'm torn now. As much as I disapprove Valve's latest decisions about their games (TF2, Half Life 2 episodes, this) I'll still buy HL2ep3 (maybe Portal 2) when it finally comes out.
Valve are like a band: they can be complete asshats but if you like the music they play you'll still want to listen to it regardless.

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indeed, i like the band analogy, they are in that comfortable, we just released out 3rd album stage :S

where the fuck is hl3...

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

Mate. Give it up.

It's never going to happen.

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

...what?

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cant be arsed to read it, whats the jist?

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

Since I heard about valve was working on a dota/moba-game I was a bit excited about what Valve would do for the rather new genre since I enjoyed DotA for a bit, but League of Legends even more.

Then I read about it in Game Informer's detailed article. Afterwards disappointment overcame me :(

To sum it up it's Valve copy the DotA-game as it is, heroes, items, map. The whole she-bang! Without adding or
changing anything game-play-wise. I was hoping for Valve to come up with at least something new to the genre that hasn't been seen in any other game in the genre.
The effort from Valve's side has instead been laid on the "ancillary" features that will be in the game. Such as a coach system which allows more experienced players to coach new players and help them climb the very steep learning curve and interactive guides.

Quotes from the article like and makes me disappointed as the few games in the genre out there is already similar enough (excluding Demi God) and I was hoping that someone as big as Valve would have brought some interesting ideas and innovations to the game-play itself.

From the standpoint of someone new to the genre I think it's going to be a great game with all the ancillary stuff in there
to make it more friendly to the new players and also the graphics which will include "true cloth simulation" :D

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Migu is right.

You really are just like the older PetePorty. You should take him under your wing as your apprentice.

CUM on moist, be reasonable, i was think more putting a pillow over his head till he stops moving...

nah, its just the article was long, and started off with some guy moaning... can you not just highlight the quote you thought was relevant to me ^^

yes im lazy...

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

Somehow I find it interesting :o
Does this explain why the game is so similar to dota?
If Valve hadn't granted him unparalleled control over the project,
what would we be seeing instead?
While interesting, it is not going to change anything that has been done.

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"There is a simple, logical explanation... and there is nothing under the bed.”

quick easy cash

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Hoping they just ripped dota to be able to transfer the dota playerbase to DotA 2 flawlessly.
Hopefully that means they might try something new and interesting with the genre with the
release of DotA 3. Thought that will be quite a while :(

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They should cut Abdul's balls off... that'll teach him

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Basically they are doing it because they saw HoN and LoL do it, realised they could win the mass players by employing Icefrog, who idolise him as though he is the messiah.

They will make money - but if it isnt a pixel for pixel copy the dota hardcore fans will still rage.

They wouldn't dare touch how the game plays chad, cos that would remove the point of publicly hiring Icefrog. HoN/LoL differ slightly and are reviled by the fanboys because of the differences.


oh and thats quite a bad move imho. bots will be feed junkies to any good players. I wonder if they will have dedicated servers for it like HoN or if it will be p2p like wc3.

No. I can't.

its ok, im doing some work now, so time is actually going fast, plus just found out im homeless at the end of the year, so ive got that to deal with now

anyway, back to topic...

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

I fear it is the truth.
Still makes me sad :'(

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