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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: DotA 2 announces Free-to-Play with all heroes and gameplay elements unlocked!
« Reply #75 on: July 28, 2012, 08:08:03 pm »
Quote from: Wingflier on July 28, 2012, 08:01:43 pm
*Shrug* I guess I don't need your approval.
Goodness, if anyone needed eRe4s3r's approval they'd be up a creek!  That's a grand-champion complainer right there!

(that's meant as a compliment actually, those complaints have driven much of the improvement in our games, particularly in the graphical area)
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Re: DotA 2 announces Free-to-Play with all heroes and gameplay elements unlocked!
« Reply #76 on: July 28, 2012, 08:15:45 pm »
The world needs critics! Keith personally knows how much of a critic I can be ;p
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« Reply #77 on: July 29, 2012, 04:25:53 am »
Hehe ;) Well not everyone can like everything. I guess I am just not made for DOTA, I already didn't like it beyond map revision 3 in WC3...

Mhh, wc3.. i might want to play that now ;P
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Re: DotA 2 announces Free-to-Play with all heroes and gameplay elements unlocked!
« Reply #78 on: August 17, 2012, 07:18:51 pm »
With The International 2 Tournament coming up in about 2 weeks (YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!), Steam has released a free spectator client for anybody who hasn't made it into the beta yet.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/

If anybody wants to watch the tournament in the ultimate high definition (game quality), and doesn't own the game, here ya go.
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Re: DotA 2 announces Free-to-Play with all heroes and gameplay elements unlocked!
« Reply #79 on: August 17, 2012, 07:35:38 pm »
Quote from: Wingflier on August 17, 2012, 07:18:51 pm
If anybody wants to watch the tournament in the ultimate high definition (game quality), and doesn't own the game, here ya go.
Thanks very much :)
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« Reply #80 on: August 17, 2012, 07:47:54 pm »
That... is such an awesome idea.

Valve's becoming more of a scary beast if they haven't been already. The best team based shooter (arguably) is free to play, the next DotA, with triple-A VALVE-quality polish, is free to play with everything unlocked... including a free spectator program to watch tournaments on in the highest of definition. Steam's gotta be earning them buckets upon buckets of money... the buckets being made of gold, of course.

Scary as that is... spectator program is awesome. I'd use it if my computer did things... and also I guess if I could get commentary over the games like at a real event.
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« Reply #81 on: August 17, 2012, 07:50:35 pm »
Yea, at this point I think Valve has swimming pools full of smaller swimming pools which, in turn, are full of gold coins.

And we're loving every minute of it.
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« Reply #82 on: August 17, 2012, 07:53:56 pm »
It's part of their plan for word domination, the fact that they are going to put non-game software on steam as well means that potentially someday the world will be using "Steam Word" and "Valve PowerPoint" on their computers, completely for free.
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« Reply #83 on: August 17, 2012, 08:22:16 pm »
Quote from: madcow on August 17, 2012, 07:53:56 pm
It's part of their plan for word domination, the fact that they are going to put non-game software on steam as well means that potentially someday the world will be using "Steam Word" and "Valve PowerPoint" on their computers, completely for free.

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Re: DotA 2 announces Free-to-Play with all heroes and gameplay elements unlocked!
« Reply #84 on: August 17, 2012, 08:24:58 pm »
Quote from: RCIX on August 17, 2012, 08:22:16 pm
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No, don't hit the spellcheck button, the pyro's on duty!

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« Reply #85 on: August 26, 2012, 01:20:42 pm »
The International 2 Preliminaries are on now.

If you downloaded the spectator client, you can use that to watch them, or you can go here:  http://www.dota2.com/international/prelims/watch/

Also, they've added this really cool "team banner" mechanic.  You buy the banner for your favorite team, then each game shows how many "supporters" a team has as they are watching the livestream.  In addition to showing which teams have more supporters, people who have bought a banner have a chance of winning items while watching their favorite team!
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« Reply #86 on: August 26, 2012, 02:29:22 pm »
Interesting! May watch a few today, thanks :)
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« Reply #87 on: August 27, 2012, 12:57:29 pm »
By the way there's a checkbox option on the top right to turn off "spectator chat", if you don't want to see what people are saying during the match.

All the matches can also be rewatched, by clicking the "Prelims" tab and finding the match that interests you.
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« Reply #88 on: August 27, 2012, 03:15:17 pm »
SO THATS WHAT YOURE ACTUALLY DOING KEITH! I knew it was fishy! Nobody works that hard on a monday...
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Re: DotA 2 announces Free-to-Play with all heroes and gameplay elements unlocked!
« Reply #89 on: August 27, 2012, 03:17:56 pm »
Quote from: Lancefighter on August 27, 2012, 03:15:17 pm
SO THATS WHAT YOURE ACTUALLY DOING KEITH! I knew it was fishy! Nobody works that hard on a monday...
I watched the latter part of iG ripping EHome up yesterday, but haven't watched any today ;)
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