Dota

And the Buddha says this is a mistake.

Now, this gets really confusing, so we're gonna get into it, right? But I want you guys to think about it for a moment, right? Experiencing pleasure is one thing, but what happens when you start to chase that pleasure? Man, I love playing a game of Dota.

Oh my God, Dota is so fun.

We made a comeback.

They were at our throne.

And that's the kind of thing that led to like in World Warcraft three.

that led to Dota, Defense of the Ancients, which became its whole genre in itself.

I just don't know how much resources it took them to put that mode in, the ability to create your own scenarios.

Planet might be sleeping on that potential avenue for allowing people to create the game the way they want, which would just let people...

played that.

And we've not been heavily into MOBAs like League of Legends or Dota.

But this is just great.

Valve have done an amazing job.

main point you want to be the single one welcome back everybody to another episode of all chat this time we've got not one time not two time but we've got the three time himself collapse who's going to be joining us collapse thank you so much for coming on the podcast congratulations how are you feeling now that the the glow is off now that you're a few weeks off of shanghai how do you feel

I would say I'm just like trying to find new motivation to play this game I would say I mean I need like a little bit of time probably like five or six months to just like get the hunger of Dota but right now I'm just I feel like I've achieved more than I want more than I wanted So

I don't know, just

relief for me right now.

And I just felt like I need refreshment.

We need to go somewhere.

Just to get out of the... get out of this routine, get out of Dota, and just do something else.

And then you hop back and just continue.

This is related to Falcons, like the question above, but in a different spin.

The other day Falcons disbanded their Dota 2 roster and outright withdrew from the esports as a whole.

According to their statement regarding the withdrawal, which I'll link here, they indirectly attribute it to Dota esports being financially unsustainable.

CS Esports is obviously not in the same boat as Dota, far from it really, but do you guys think this could eventually hit Falcon CS in the future and may eventually lead to them having to downscale the roster by specifically breaking up the star trio? due to the increasing costs of hosting such an expensive roster that they've spent a supposed estimate of nearly 20 million informing on top of ongoing uncertainty as a result of sticker revenue continuing to drop as of now unless it's turned around.

I mean, I think they're okay as long as they have the EWC stuff and plays well within that.

But I'm pretty sure that most organizations have prepared addition to the contracts, which would probably shift player salary depending on how the sticker outcome happens during the next major.

that there's clauses in there that might lower or raise salaries depending on the situation if they don't already have a lower salary now and might get it all back if the stickers kind of go in line with what we were having before so i don't think that I mean, Dota is in such a weird state where there's only one good tournament and then the rest of the year kind of dies.

So I was going to look at this, right? Dota salaries, as far as I remember, are not as high as...

And to me, character models do not bring any possibilities, but obviously they are an inevitability, right? Like you need polish in a game like this at some point and character models bring that level of polish.

However, if we look at Dota, for example, does Morphling have a new model already? No, I don't think so,

right? No, they gave him a new persona in the Dark Carnival event, but his model is still...

Yeah, so Morphling

I think all that stuff has to come before they'll release the game.

Because I don't think they would do it with this time around.

Dota was different.

Dota was different.