Also, alike irl sports, a world cup suddenly draws otherwise completely uninterested people to watch, if only for patriotism. But mostly because there will actually be interesting plays, isntead of the mucking around that happens in low level. This goes for both e and non-e sports.
@Gratua Cuun: Well just as with real sports, your local sports team does indeed not get much of a crowd. As home streaming has very little startup cost, a lot of people do it, but 99% has only their friends watching, thinking they'll be as big as the 1%. It's just like high school bands.
@Nalbudday: Haha, yeah, I remember watching that sort of thing happen! When I would play LoL, kills would happen before creep spawn. When I play DOTA2, there is little action other than poor positioned ganks for 15 minutes. I am not good at those games, so that may be part of it.
E-Sports..... gamers get paid to be the very best for a single game, and that makes it very difficult to get "Git Gud" at nearly any game that receives updates every other week. Not to mention that almost any match for almost any MOBA has one team dominating, and the other being dominated.
I don't really watch e-sports much, though I do tend to tune in for big speedrun events, like the dual Games Done Quick marathons. That's kind of like a e-sport, right?
@Kate Blackwell: ...the major appeal of basketball is that you can just shoot hoops by yourself in your driveway. Same with Soccer. There's a REASON why those two games have spread as far around the world as they have.
@Waka: To play basketball you need a team and a place to play, and due to those two it's probably at least a two hour commitment you have to arrange in advance. Most normal folks don't actually get to play sports regularly.
To play Dota you just load up the game and can play any time.
I'm probably never going to understand this - because that is the exact logic I use for sports lol. I never watch football or basketball or really any organized sport.
Hasaoe Takada
over 8 years ago
Not Related to this comic but did you notice the New Olympic skin for Zaria, looks like she's a natural blond making Alek's employment even more fitting.
Cammy is low tier and pretty easy to deal with man. Lacks overheads and has lots of unsafe moves. :v I myself am better versed on FGC than Dota itself.
So... These 4 are the best teams around?
@Gratua Cuun @Nos Rin: There's a lot of reasons.
Budget : not everyone can pay for all the games they want plus PC/console to run them.
Time : you can't play all the games you want and it's faster to watch edited gameplay.
Entertainment : same reasoning as why watch sports on TV or local clubs IRL
@Anonymous: the LoL world championships a couple of years ago and like half of the games had less than 15 kills. One of them had first blood at TWENTY TWO minutes. Meanwhile Dota has potential teamfights as soon as the runes spawn.
@Anonymous: Eh. I think fighting game tournies are better than moba tournies, BUT I'd definitely put The International on par with EVO as far as excitement/watchability go. DotA tends to have more action sooner than other mobas at a professional level IMO. I remember watching (1/2)
I actually enjoy watching Fighting Game tournaments a lot more than MOBA tournaments. I'm a bigger fan of the Fighting genre, though. I just feel a bit like I'm watching a different game when it's MOBA. It's very strange, especially when you're not good at DOTA2.
