1 Million Players of DoTA2

[DyzaztyR]

hey everyone

I dont know the exact numbers of dota2, but according to stats.dota2.be it has record of 917,174 players' record (uptill this post). So we are near to a glorious milestone.

All the best to Valve DotA2 team

how we gonna celebrate this ?

[ShowThemHell]

Wait till it comes out, there will be a lot more.
Remember, it's from 800000 to 900000 when Valve start to sells invitation. Damn profit.

[jimmyvan]

it's 1 milllion player accounts. still a great achievement though.

[DyzaztyR]

ofcourse I've played about 486 games so far and paid nothing for it. Also letting 900,000+ people playing without making revenue IS A HARD DECISION.

Its the generosity of Valve which actully stunned me. When I read DotA2 is Free to play and I dont have to buy heroes, I was like 'WWOOOAAAHHHHH love you valve'

[Diamond123]

I can't belive this somehow.

[damN_Grave]

And the millions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Skaloon]

Originally Posted by DyzaztyR

Its the generosity of Valve which actully stunned me. When I read DotA2 is Free to play and I dont have to buy heroes, I was like 'WWOOOAAAHHHHH love you valve'

it's not generosity as much as the only way to get asia DotA scene to transfer to DotA 2. it was a must to make DotA 2 F2P and all the heroes free. otherwise valve would have killed their chances to get asians in DotA 2. and that would have probably costed them way more than the money they would have made form western players buying heroes or the game from them.

aswell as it was the only way to compete with LoL. HOWEVER, DotA needs all heroes to be available, otherwise the game sucks. so LoL format doesn't work for DotA 2

[RaidenStorms]

I really doubt over half of those players are dedicated ones; there are tons of random gamers who received keys and didn't play DotA at all and quickly quit Dota 2.

[CvP]

Pretty sure Dota2 has the potential to hit 1M concurrent player let alone total player.

I'm sure after TI2, Dota2 will be the #1 game in steam...

[ShowThemHell]

Originally Posted by CvP

Pretty sure Dota2 has the potential to hit 1M concurrent player let alone total player.

Not gonna happen.

Now we are having 900'000 total players, and about 40'000 concurrent players.

With that ratio, if we have 1'000'000 concurrents players, we will have 22'500'000 players. Huge number :/ .

[Swordz]

Originally Posted by RaidenStorms

I really doubt over half of those players are dedicated ones; there are tons of random gamers who received keys and didn't play DotA at all and quickly quit Dota 2.

just like 9,9 million of the "10 million" LoL accounts

[Skaloon]

Originally Posted by ShowThemHell

Not gonna happen.

Now we are having 900'000 total players, and about 40'000 concurrent players.

With that ratio, if we have 1'000'000 concurrents players, we will have 22'500'000 players. Huge number :/ .

with all the asians i think 500k concurrent players are possible. ofc it depends if valve doesn't fuck up bringing this game to china and philippines

[ShowThemHell]

Originally Posted by Skaloon

with all the asians i think 500k concurrent players are possible. ofc it depends if valve doesn't fuck up bringing this game to china and philippines

I'm an Asian and i think this wrong. In my country, i see ppl play Dota everywhere, but somehow the concurrent playeres only reach about 30'000.

[Skaloon]

Originally Posted by ShowThemHell

I'm an Asian and i think this wrong. In my country, i see ppl play Dota everywhere, but somehow the concurrent playeres only reach about 30'000.

i doubt you saw the whole asia

[ShowThemHell]

Originally Posted by Skaloon

i doubt you saw the whole asia

Nah. Not every asian kids play Dota, and not all of them gonna play at the same time.

Dota is really popular, no doubt. But reaching 1m at a same time is kinda imposible, amd remember servers limitation.

[boedhiman]

How many players league has now?

[muxmux-]

I was really surprised when Valve announced f2p with all free heroes(Icefrog influence right there). And there is the result, gj Valvfrog

[ptoss]

Originally Posted by Skaloon

it's not generosity as much as the only way to get asia DotA scene to transfer to DotA 2. it was a must to make DotA 2 F2P and all the heroes free. otherwise valve would have killed their chances to get asians in DotA 2. and that would have probably costed them way more than the money they would have made form western players buying heroes or the game from them.

aswell as it was the only way to compete with LoL. HOWEVER, DotA needs all heroes to be available, otherwise the game sucks. so LoL format doesn't work for DotA 2

Makes sense. I remember Company of Heroes did the same thing some time ago. Failed to make a profit and shut down. Badddddddd.

[One.More.Game.]

Originally Posted by Skaloon

with all the asians i think 500k concurrent players are possible. ofc it depends if valve doesn't fuck up bringing this game to china and philippines

You do know that the majority of the playerbase in Asia comes from those two places, right?

[ShowThemHell]

Originally Posted by One.More.Game.

You do know that the majority of the playerbase in Asia comes from those two places, right?

We have a big fan base here in Vietnam too .