It felt like the entirety of today was spent building up to our DOTA 2 game. Louis and his friend spent a little while discussing tactics with me over lunch, dinner and while they were watching the international championships in my room. We ended up winning gloriously and we sat beaming knowing that at least one of our friends is throwing is keyboard around his room in frustration.
DOTA 2 has become an absolute monster of a game since it's official release about a year ago. Right now you can get it on Steam for a fee of zero pennies and because if that, it has become the most played game on the platform. A quick look at the play figures show that the 2nd most played game (Counter Strike: Global Offensive) peaks at around 115,000 players a day. DOTA 2 on the other hand usually caps off at around 850,000 which is nuts.
Personally, I still don't understand all of the hype around it, but after playing a few games of it I can certainly see its appeal with its fantasy setting and it's deep (if slightly overcomplicated) mechanics. Right now it is the poster child for E-Sports and raising awareness of video games as a highly competitive medium that deserves to be televised along with sports like football and rugby and is now fueling some positive images of the medium. If you want to get a sense of how seriously this game is being played then you can check out 'The International' right here to get a sense of it all.
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