The actual sponsor of the event DL is organising is prolly the thing missing.
It's something i did intentionally for pretty obvious reasons.

Lemme guess... steelseries? Freedom of speech? Arent reporters allowed to write about everything?

Razer good sponsor, there are chances of 90% that money will be paid out :P

It's nothing wrong about what i said above. A lot of players change "their direction" towards HON. One of them is Vigoss. Did you guys know that hes currently very active in HON, besides poker and other computer based hobbies he has?
If you dont like something in an article that you dont know much about, please don't flame.
Another DotA legend that switched to HON is Drayich.
Personally, i agree with you. Eventhough better looking, with a well set matchmaking and reconnection system and way better mechanics, HON is very unbalanced at the moment. If Icefrog doesn't get that standalone dota game he promised up and running soon, DotA might die in 6-12 months in my oppinion. Sponsors support it less than ever at the moment. As Drayich said and i quote " Between DotA and HoN, it's pretty clear where the money is, and that's cool.". Some or dare i say most of the pro gamers, only play for money and i can't say i blame them.At the moment, DotA isn't giving out any serious money and the organisations that sign DotA teams are currently way fewer than the ones that drop their dota squads.
Don't get me wrong, im a DotA fan too, but i have to admit this game is not as it used to be back in 2007-2008.

You are so long gone and it is more than obvious that you aren't neutral when you're doing your job. (comparing your news and your above statement).

What is a lot? A lot of players change their direction towards HoN as you put it, so what is that compared to? It obviously can't be the .. let's say.. more than 10 million of DotA players?!

And who cares if Vigoss decides to play HoN? I mean WHO CARES? It's obvious that you aren't neutral when you try to use Vigoss as an excuse (defense mechanism) against it, it's just so ridiculous.

Yes, I do not like that article and who are you to assume that I don't know anything about DotA? I'd even claim that I know more, much more than you about DotA!

"Another DotA legend that switched to HON is Drayich." - [..] as an excuse (defense mechanism) [...]"

Then again, who are you to decide what a better game mechanics is?

"DotA might die in 6-12 months in my oppinion. Sponsors support it less than ever at the moment."

HAVE YOU READ THE ABOVE ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE??!!!!!

I quote from DL:

"Razer is also committed to make this a regular series that will occur multiple times over the next few years, with increasing prize pool each time."

So my question to you is, do you think that this tournament, the first of its SERIES will take less than 6 months? And what about the rest of the SERIES?

Sponsors supports it less you say, well that actually might be correct then again it doesn't matter when there are a few sponsors out there willing to support the game with a prize pool that tops the whole e-Sports community. 30k USD.

Quote from you:

"As Drayich said and i quote " Between DotA and HoN, it's pretty clear where the money is, and that's cool.".

- My answer: Yes it's pretty clear where the money is.

Quote from you:

At the moment, DotA isn't giving out any serious money and the organisations that sign DotA teams are currently way fewer than the ones that drop their dota squads.
Don't get me wrong, im a DotA fan too, but i have to admit this game is not as it used to be back in 2007-2008.

You must have a single digit IQ.

In my oppinion the pros are : DDT, MYM, Nirvana(Not really european but hey), TEG, LAN, OK and DTS.

I'm not set on flaming here but your just making it hard as you do not want to accept that some of the things you say, write and some parts of the article is misleading.

Once again, if IceFrog has said what you say he has then out the context I don't see anywhere where it's said that it's better mechanic-wise other than Warcraft III is limited. Furthermore you are not to judge whether it's good mechanics or not, it's up to the individual. - DotA players finds the mechanics in DotA great and same goes for HoN, so once again, you're nobody to judge what's good and what's not.

Now again you are unloading massive amounts of crap and I'm not going to quote it all. Where exactly did I say anything about this, since you make this sentence up; "About the DotA players switching to hon, i never said anything about the dota community switching to hon".

The pro-players you talk about that preferred HoN instead of DotA can at the moment be counted on two hands. Comparing those players there are a lot more on the DotA scene and to sum-up, those "lot of pro players switching" are not that many after all but actually just a few.

I'll not comment on rest of the middle section of your post since it would take me ages to explain it to you and I feel that it's just another unload of bullcrap.

About Vigoss, you sure do try to use him as marketing but I don't even understand why you are trying to make a point of it. You're trying to tell people what matters and what doesn't ??

I don't think you'll have to worry that much about Razer but then again I was just trying to get an answer to how you came up with the idea that DotA would die out in 6-12 months. I just don't get the calculations going on in your head.

Lastly, I'm not flaming but it seems like you are looking for a way out. I won't stop the discussion just because you think I'm wrong. All I've done is to point out that what you wrote in the article wasn't neutral and that it was putting DotA in a bad light. Other than that I mentioned that the tournament was named Razer Global Challenge.

Have fun,

Sorry for the typos and stuff, im at work and i write in a hurry.

I'm not quite sure if in game experience make your opinion count more than others. See, there is one game side of things but this touches the business side of things. I'm not sure how you can mix the two things up. I have real life friends that have been playing DotA since six years back, yet they are clueless when it comes to eSports. Do you see what I'm getting at?

Actually, Dynasty, articles are supposed to be completely neutral with no first-person input. Your opinions should be expressed through blogs and columns, much like what Zechs does every week. Opinions and self-referencing in articles do not have happy endings, take for example this:

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/18388-G7_trims_fat

Yes your right, but if the oppinion is based on arguments provided by the very best players in the scene the article is about, doesn't that turn a simple oppinion into fact?

I don't understand your answer though it sounds like you are trying to give yourself right in making it alright to include opinions into the article/news by referring to some 'arguments' - For that the answer is no, it's not alright.

But tell me what opinions, arguments etc. you are referring to from what pro players in the scene?

Second of all, what has these arguments etc. you are talking about to do with this article which SHOULD simply enlighten the users about a tournament?

Please do explain.

I barely know you and I have nothing personal against you. However you include something 'personal', your opinion in the news which I found wrong. I simply pointed out that I wasn't satisfied with that and instead of you accepting it and changing it in the article you started to defend yourself with some silly statements.

All I wish is that you do not put DotA in a bad light which you do in the news. If you really are a fan of DotA as you said in some of your previous comments then I really have a hard time with you not being able to see this yourself and changing the news.

I'm sorry but your just ****ing pathetic and a jackass!

Now I'm going to tell you what exactly it's your doing: You are looking at something which is blue but you don't like it so you decide to make it lightblue thinking it's better. It's not your job to decide what's better and it's certainly not your job to pass on news after your likings. Your job is to simply pass on and write the news as it is and not include a massive amount of bullshit making a drama out of your news.

@ Dynasty

You still haven't seemed to understand it, it's not "all about sticking to what you feel is right" - you are supposed to be NEUTRAL and being neutral doesn't give a damn thing about what you feel is right.

You might not understand it but the news is put in a way which makes it sound as if DotA has suffered from the other titles and as if it were dying. This is most definitely not true and that is why it is pointed out in my comments as you may see.

I believe this should be answer enough but just in case, to cut it out for you:

There might be 100k players playing the game however even if you put the titles together DotA has a far larger userbase, that is why it isn't "bring it back" and it shouldn't be. Because DotA hasn't suffered from some players choosing to play the other titles and therefore it isn't helping DotA but rather misleading others, newcomers etc. about the status of the scene.

So if anything, this is misleading people and bad journalism at the best. Take a look into some of the other articles etc. written by the author. Fx http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/29447-Starcraft_2_Balance_debate