Dota 2's popularity is still continuing to surge, and it has recently hit a new milestone of over 1 million players.
It's actually the first game on Steam to ever reach this new height:
Dota 2 is the first game on Steam to have over 1,000,000 players online at a time. https://t.co/8ElvO1cmb7 pic.twitter.com/ATHnr4DCwY
Steam Database (@SteamDB) February 14, 2015
This is still dwarfed by League of Legends which doesn't have a Linux version, but it's starting to properly gain on it now.
The count for the last month's unique players is over 10 million too, so the game is extremely healthy.
Some personal thoughts
I gave up playing Dota 2 due to the absolutely terrible community. For a game that requires a good team to play together, the constant quitters and rather angry people do ruin the experience.
The major frustration for me comes from when you get matched with people who don't speak your language, and they proceed to constantly yell at you in their chosen language. You also do get a fair few trolls playing who do some pretty silly things; stealing the courier from you when you have an urgent item on its way is one such example.
If you have a full party of friends this can make the game a pretty fun place to be, so it certainly can be enjoyed with a proper team.
Do you play it? How do you feel about the community? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism Feb 18, 2015
This article's title is misleading - it should read something more like:
DOTA 2 hits 1 million players online at the same time.
There are infact 11,000,000 unique players and not 1,000,000 that login each month. To anyone who says LOL trumps in players because they claim 40,000,000 players - that's nonsensical as the metric can't be compared. LOL counts players by the # the accounts registered, not by logins this month.
Between my girl and me we have 6 accounts, neither of us have played LOL in over a year as it runs like crap on WINE and Riot Games doesn't care. (DOTA has gained 6 million playes in about 8 months and made 40 Million Dollars off this years championship event in a matter of weeks.) LOL's fate is sealed - it will be a game for tweens, noobs, moms and baddies who can't handle the complexity of actives in DOTA whilest attracted to the boobage of Sona, Ahri and other champions.
Riot Games are lazy and too busy partying snorting cocaine off iphones while partying with young girls to do anything to enrich LOL suchas - I don't know - bring it to Linux and gain a highly technical market that spends lots of time and money on their PCs. Nope. But oh we're given a awesome new Reddit style forums that everyone hates, we get a music album and music videos - OMG LOL is sooo amazzzing!!! But hey! What else would you expect a company located in Orange County California? And now they're owned by the Chinese.
I have one last bone to pick - and that's the Riot Games strategically nurfs and buffs champions in order to perpetuate skin sales thereby putting cash into their bank, it's a ruthless tactic where your favorite hero's stats get dumped when X New Skin comes out for X Champion that just got buffed.
On the other hand, the strategic and intelligent valve rewards players for playing by giving random item and skin drops that entice players into playing more games. Skins, and Items are 90% cheaper than in LOL and players can resell items on the Steam Marketplace when they get tired or get a new preferred skin set. Valve is Genius.
The greed and lazyness of LOL has ruined LOL for me and many others.
(To those saying X DOTA2 player was moody/bitch and a bad experience, there's a mute button on the score screen - mute players on a per-player basis - so much better than when LOL disabled chatting with the enemy team.)
DOTA 2 hits 1 million players online at the same time.
There are infact 11,000,000 unique players and not 1,000,000 that login each month. To anyone who says LOL trumps in players because they claim 40,000,000 players - that's nonsensical as the metric can't be compared. LOL counts players by the # the accounts registered, not by logins this month.
Between my girl and me we have 6 accounts, neither of us have played LOL in over a year as it runs like crap on WINE and Riot Games doesn't care. (DOTA has gained 6 million playes in about 8 months and made 40 Million Dollars off this years championship event in a matter of weeks.) LOL's fate is sealed - it will be a game for tweens, noobs, moms and baddies who can't handle the complexity of actives in DOTA whilest attracted to the boobage of Sona, Ahri and other champions.
Riot Games are lazy and too busy partying snorting cocaine off iphones while partying with young girls to do anything to enrich LOL suchas - I don't know - bring it to Linux and gain a highly technical market that spends lots of time and money on their PCs. Nope. But oh we're given a awesome new Reddit style forums that everyone hates, we get a music album and music videos - OMG LOL is sooo amazzzing!!! But hey! What else would you expect a company located in Orange County California? And now they're owned by the Chinese.
I have one last bone to pick - and that's the Riot Games strategically nurfs and buffs champions in order to perpetuate skin sales thereby putting cash into their bank, it's a ruthless tactic where your favorite hero's stats get dumped when X New Skin comes out for X Champion that just got buffed.
On the other hand, the strategic and intelligent valve rewards players for playing by giving random item and skin drops that entice players into playing more games. Skins, and Items are 90% cheaper than in LOL and players can resell items on the Steam Marketplace when they get tired or get a new preferred skin set. Valve is Genius.
The greed and lazyness of LOL has ruined LOL for me and many others.
(To those saying X DOTA2 player was moody/bitch and a bad experience, there's a mute button on the score screen - mute players on a per-player basis - so much better than when LOL disabled chatting with the enemy team.)
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Quoting: ElectricPrismTo anyone who says LOL trumps in players because they claim 40,000,000 players - that's nonsensical as the metric can't be compared. LOL counts players by the # the accounts registered, not by logins this month.they can be compared
www.polygon.com/2014/1/27/5350944/league-of-legends-has-27-million-daily-active-players
27million daily, 67million monthly
7.5million concurrent users, and those numbers are from over a year ago
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