Dota folks, what do you think about Riot's LCS format? Would it be something you would be interested in Valve going for?
Mixed opinion.
LCS reminds me of what Vince McMahon did to rasslin in the 80s where he put all the local promotions out of business with the WWF. It made wrestling much bigger, but Vince was the only game in town (until WCW, but that's another story).
LCS has its good points, (static schedule, storylines can be built) but it has its problems (spring split is meaningless, games can be worthless after the standings have been set, the western scene feels like a good ol boys club with the older teams always having a top spot).
On the other hand, Dota's scene desperately needs some stability. There are too many tournaments nowadays. Alliance is playing Na'Vi today? I'll just catch their next game in a few days. I don't even pay attention to Dota any more outside of LAN events.
To be honest, I really don't think the regular season format works well for esports though. I'd rather see it be like tennis or golf where there are major LAN events every 2-3 months that give seeding points for the world championships.
OGN probably has the best implementation of what I'm dreaming up.
the passive aggressive sarcastic rhetoric coming from the dota shitters has risen to new highs overnight.
like seriously, this thread has gone downhill
its full of crap and shitposting
'oh yeah its not dota, it sucks'
'getting ganked is antifun'
'oh in dota we have 4 wards yeah damn, 15 wards that must be so shit'
'hey if you like farming so much go play diablo 3'
repeating burden of knowledge and anti-fun like some kind of clever injoke and giving yourself pats on the pack. instead you just seem like shitpushers for distilling a page of discussion into one phrase in an age where the discussion is 4 years old and pretending its still relevant.
einbroach's commentary about homogenization is pretty sad too, considering he just played thresh, zed and yasuo. champions more recent than that post are. failing to look past text and see the actual results just makes anybody seem narrow minded, sorry.
making comments about a game you dont play like 'theres only 2 ways to gank' and 'ganking is really hard from the jungle' and my favourite is 'passive slow play'
-yeah, lol isnt dota. and it sounds incredibly disingenous when the only reasoning you can offer is that 'x works better because of dota reasons'. but worse is the stupid ass one liner comments that have littered this page and the last. im calling out granadier, haly and even iamblades on their shitposting.
Pot meet kettle