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Is it just an ego thing? Do they do it just to show off their guns? Maybe tear the sleeves off their robes, throw some Copenhagen in their lip, and then go around breaking islands while drinking a PBR?
And where does all that lava that is always flowing around in Hades go? Ever been to Hawaii and seen the lava there? It's constantly piling up and forming huge messy piles of lava rock when it cools. Is that part of the punishment of Hades, having to clean up dried lava rock? #mytheon
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Steve "Guinsoo" Feak was the second "owner" of DotA. He created the DotA All-Stars for The Frozen Throne. IceFrog later inherited this version.
Steve "Pendragon" Mescon was DotA's community expert (he managed the DA website) until just a few months ago when IceFrog and Pendragon decided to part ways. He still managed DotA-AllStars website, alongside his work with League of Legends.
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Fair enough. The developers themselves are really nice people though. I wouldn't be surprised if they did this because they love their fans.
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Then I found out the game is free and the preorder is for special stuff! So I put down my money anyway so I can get the dark Annie skin with the bondage teddy bear.
07/14/09
All three of the "League of Legends" links in the article go to the same page - a Kotaku tag search for the game, which brings up a whopping four articles, with one an announcement and a second a feature. Given that we already HAVE those links in the sidebar, both above and below the related articles, I'm not sure what that accomplishes.
We don't necessarily need to link to the game's website in every article, but for smaller indie games like this it'd be useful.
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That is a lot of acronyms!
07/14/09
HoN is great, no mistake but somehow LoL captures that same feeling that DOTA does. And you can't beat saying, "Hey guys, I'ma go play lol."
Ahh...this is gonna be such good times.
07/14/09
I love that League of Legends:Clash of Fates is abreviated to LoL: CoF. Saying Lawl Cough is fun >_>
07/14/09
I just don't think this is truly the case. I believe HoN will be the one to pull DotA players if any game will. It is literally a DIRECT copy of Dota. That includes the map, creep spots, shops, Roshan, and heroes too. All this and it has DOW2-esque graphics.
LoL looks like a fun game, but without the depth of Dota.
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That is ridiculously cool.
And thank God they're not selling power - that would kill the game since it is so competitive.
I hope this works for them.
07/14/09
From the developers themselves
"We've played a lot of those games, and we are aware of where microtransactions screw up the gameplay.
They primarily do this by selling power, which is not how we are approaching this."
The cash shop is primarily for purchasing non-gameplay affecting items. Everything else can be purchased by influence points (points earned by playing more games).
Just to clarify, the Preorder pack notes that it comes with 20 champions. This just means that the champions are already unlocked for you. Those who do not want the collector's pack can unlock these champions through regular gameplay.
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Free to play, polished DoTA?
Thank you Riot! Thank you so much!
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