not so much the “free” though,

1st of all, its hard to get a (legal) version of warcraft III since, if you can buy it at all, you have to dig in the classic or golden oldies section LOL

HoN is $30, thats not a lot, about R250~300. Plus, you dont need to go and get the game in a store, since youre basically buying an account, not the game

Although I can’t really comment until HON goes into open beta.

but i dont see why we can play dota on a competive level and hon, how much money does dota need? pm me Nirate maybe we can talk. :cool:

I tried HoN, and tbh I felt like it was over done, and imbalanced (but as time goes by it will get more balanced with new patches etc). The biggest problem for me, was the graphics, some of you may like it, but for a game like DotA, too much graphics just screws it up, as well as lame animations on spells. Such as Shadow Fiends Raze’s etc… Perhaps I didn’t give it time to get used to the game, I played about +- 10 games. Didn’t enjoy it.

@Zer0cool, I disagree, it’s not the ONLY reason, it might be a reason for some, but i’m sure there are others like me, that just prefer dota. At least you can see wtf is going on in DotA during a team battle.

Now all of a sudden HoN gets everything, thats why people are sad.

Some of the other potential successors like LoL and Demigod, just don’t have the right formula (at least in my opinion).

HoN is DotA HD. It’s the spiritual successor. If you want to deny it, then no problem. Old game communities still work. Just don’t expect competitive support or sponsorships.

WAY TO SHINEY omfg I almost had a seizure first 10 min,

finding items is super hard unless you realise you can click on an item and then just buy its components from there

International players like to prolong a game because its '' fun '' they say. Like my team won both games i played but it takes us 70 min to finish cause those fools just farm and then shout B.

that dc rejoin thing is vrek cool not gona lie :).

Lina = a man now which is sad. but ye used up 70 megs of bandwidth with 2 games fml.

To each his own, I did love my times in DotA, but am now loving HoN even more. Feel free to play whatever you guys want. I have nothing but the utmost respect and support for Twilight and I hope you guys continue doing the great job you always have been doing.

It’s tough to say that the future is definately HoN with all the stuff that’s otw still. Valve could be pushing something out, a mod could also be made for SC2, but let’s hope not as the same WC3 limitations will apply. LoL is a total crock of sh1t, so let’s ignore that. Over 36000 beta users at the moment, be interesting to see how those numbers pan out when the game gets officially launched and people need to buy the game.

This has nothing to do with DotA vs HoN as such.

Nice!

International guys, please leave the poll. It really doesn’t affect you. :/

I appreciate what they are doing, but they arent doing it the right way in my mind.

HON >>> DOTA

If we’re going to talk objectively, I didnt notice any bad controlling coming from DotA to HoN, if anything it got better.

I figure ill answer the second part of your question first, about the gateway editor. The way HoN works is that you load up the client, and log in with your account. You can then create a game or join a game from the list. Servers for creating a game (HoN games are hosted on remote servers and not on the host’s PC, a superior function to DotA) can be filtered by region, so you can find the correct server for you, and even see its ping before you select it.

To answer the first part of your question, I went and checked the searchable regions of servers in HoN and yes, there is a “South African” region, so I can only assume there a good number of South African HoN servers available for playing.

Hon is almost identical, it feels a little faster meaning Current dota pros will need a bit of practise with Hon before they are playing as well as they did in Dota.

Good Dota players who tried Hon and got owned will often be very critical of the game.

Those who have played hon beta for a while now will tell you that they cant go back to Dota (it just feels so much slower).

Hons Perks:
Can Reconnect after DC
Auto-AFK kick
Ingame Voice Chat (including Lane only Chat)
Improved Hero Selection
Stat Tracking
Matchmaking
Improved Shop
Better Graphics ofc
Built-in Banlist
Can play against International teams np.
New heroes not contrained by the War3 engine limits.
Smaller than 5v5 game brackets and different maps (This perk actually fails :P)
Only $30
Easy Keybinds
Proper Widescreen support
Auto-Team Balance with player locking
Better unit pathing
Dev team supports South African Community (This news item was posted on their official Twitter :<)
theres more but i cant really think of them right now :D

Pause.

I’ve stopped listening because I presented very precisely my why i think hon cannot match dota competitively and you replied with a very dismissive but super catchy quip or two.

its you who isn’t listening [reading*] or if you are, YOUR mind is so set that you’re missing the point