Hon Now Free

damn, website blocked
but is true

i would pay > $100 for dota 2 if it could promise as much fun and stability as dota
nn 500000 changes a month that just make the game crappier
i rather one content patch every 3-4 months and minor bug fixes where necessary

OH HON/S2, WHY CAN'T YOU BE MORE LIKE DOTA

Y

worst games are those with microtransactions that give you not only cosmetics but power in-game kinda like being able to play monkey king early and slaM everyone cuz ofc, he's bugged as shit

most pathetic thing is all the damn 1600/1500 mongolian players are the ones who spend the most $$ cuz, instead of practicing to become better, they think spending money on worthless shit will buy them skill

wtf

Hon Now Free

same with these LoL kids who are on my school's sc2 team
they keep spending money on avatars and heroes but i know they're terrible cuz of their MMR relative to the actual ladder (would translate to mid 1500s-mid 1600s for hon)

many do that though, one of my friends has put like $60 extra into hon and says it's worth it cuz of the amount of time he's played it

i mean sure, i'm at $3 per hour i've played of black ops and $5.50 per hour i've played of portal 2
but just because i average like $0.001 per hour i've played of hon doesn't mean that it 'deserves' my money
especially with the direction S2 is taking it, it's obvious that the entire shop is for the purpose to make money
the most blatant first sign would be the badass announcer pack, basically forcing you to buy coins

slither was the first alt avatar to show that, i think, then hag and so on

so dumb
if prickster is right about dota 2 and it does have microtransactions i'm gonna cry
diablo 3 already has IRL auctions

god, it's like there are so few good mainstream game companies these days

This post was edited by dude150 on Aug 4 2011 11:09am

i won't mind too much in dota2 cause if some of my friends from HoN / old dota play it i'm sure i'll be able to get free shit

but just for the concept i really hope it is a one time $50 or so and then no in-game bullshit. maybe like an $30 expansion pack way later

could care less about the money since i'm sure i'll make a few bucks from dota2 here and there, but the last thing i wanna see is

1) new patch released, some ultra-expensive alt-avatar comes out that costs like $30
2) all smart and good players are like "fuck this i won't pay" and everything seems alright
3) then u join a game and your brown player with 48% win rate 1500 games instnatly bought the new avatar and is showing it off while still sucking horribly

really pisses me off for some reason people who are so moronic as to spend absurd amounts of $$ on cosmetics then think they are better than everyone else when in reality their skill is very very low

i wouldn't give valve $100 because they will add microtransactions

I don't think i would ever give a company more than $50 for a game unless I was a stock holder

exactly, man
most of the things that differ going from dota to hon are ruining public games
nobody cares for stat whoring or shitty shiny avatars playing 5 man vs 5 man teams
but in pubs it's almost unbearable, whereas in dota you had MUCH less stat whores in pubs since nothing but game count was recorded for TDA and many other things

i dunno, i mean none of it is bad to decent players like us since we know better, so i don't mind being a dbag and playing janitor every game for big K:D ratio cuz i know i'll win in the end, and in a real game we know how to actually play

but scrubs who can't get past pure aesthetics and integers on screen will never learn to improve

np small son

in HoN i would get on like 1300-1600 accounts and play with pirat +fittske right after a new patch game out. we would instantly spot nerds with blue shield / latest avatars (MSIVY SLITHER!) etc. would stomp them into the ground then laugh @ them for wasting money and still being bad. i hope it made them think twice about spending $$ for worthless shit, but i doubt it

when dota2 comes out u + me do the same thing (if there is microtransactions). will be eZ slaM

This post was edited by sMACKTRiCKz on Aug 4 2011 11:25am

do you realize how dumb that would be with a game like dota?