Places like Korea, where LoL is huge, DotA will probably have a hard time. But there's a lot of regions like Southeast Asia, CIS and South America where LoL didn't catch on much and that had an enormous DotA 1 playerbase, where DotA 2 is already quite large. China has a lot of LoL interest as well, but DotA 1 was also…

Speaking as a Korean American, Korean pro-DotA is terrible at the moment. They have a lot of catching up to do, but they'll have lots of good competition nearby since China and SEA are some of the most competitive and talented regions. That, and Nexon is pouring tons of money into supporting DotA since Nexon Korea is…

It has an incredibly steep learning curve but if you're interested in the game, it can be hugely rewarding once you get into the game. I've been playing for six years and I still improve each month, and I have never played the same game twice.

It has one of the highest learning curves of any game, so the complexities of it aren't going to come to you in a single match. That said, if you don't enjoy it, you don't enjoy it. It isn't for everyone!

You're too slow, Plunkett.

Even though it was released then, many countries/regions still had an application process/queue system for registration because of server loads. That system is gone now due to the addition of several new servers.

Top-down RPGs were never about Diablo, and I don't know why you think they were.

I felt this way about GTA5 in general. It's good at the things they designed for you to do, but most 'fucking around' things, it seems like whenever you try something out, the least interesting thing possible happens.

In Rhianna's defense (?), two professional Australian footballers got in a bloody brawl over an autograph she handed to the two of them. Broken nose and everything.

Bookmarking this article for the inevitable JLaw Controversy/Tarnish articles Jezebel posts in like six months.

They announced that 'The Warcraft movie is coming' back in like 2006. The fact that it seems like there are actually real people doing real work and it may actually happen some day still feels surreal. WoW is going to be like 11 years old when the movie is actually released at this point.

For the record, China already has WPC for DotA, which is sort of an organization of the major teams, and it does rule who can play for what teams and when, when contracts expire, supposedly helps guard against poaching so much (though I haven't seen this in practice). It also dictates who can participate in a large…

Except there's very little guaranteeing contracts, especially since so much of it conducted internationally through Paypal. When your management screws you, you have no recourse. Players are pretty abusable and have to place a huge amount of trust in their management. Speed Gaming in DotA 2 in just the past few weeks…

Don't take Laura Beck articles as movie reviews. There's no thought put into this post and it is basically an insipid, shallow kneejerk tumblr approach to 'feminism' and has nothing to do with the actual movie.

I, too, am exasperated by things that other people know about... It is a burden.

I don't think you get what a 'double standard' actually is.

I was literally on Battle.net last night playing random TDs with people, not sure what you mean by suggesting that it's only DotA?

It obviously is for influence and not just 'good works', but it is seriously questionable how much influence someone like Miley Cyrus has actually had. Has she actually influenced anything? She's not really influential, or important, or informative, she isn't teaching America or the world anything, really.

I feel like Deathmatch and PvP on-foot PvP gets boring really fast just because of the mechanics of the game (the extreme Auto Aim and such), I'd like to see more co-operative missions or heists, chases, so on. The most fun I have with my friends is doing the missions that resemble singleplayer missions but with…

Yeah, you're ridiculously wrong.