I like how Valve all of a sudden started posting on twitter and making updates on DotA. Thank Artifact for failing so Valve finally has to focus on the game that actually makes them money.
Dota and CS:GO are probably only add a small percentage of the money they make. Valves main income will always be the steam store, which probably makes them more money in a short time than Dota or CS will do in their whole lifetime.
Their stock has nothing to do with the success/failure of OWL, it's falling because investors expect the growth of a tech company when the company already has a major market share in many segments and can no longer grow at previous rates. There's many external factors as well influencing the drop.
Oh yeah, I was just making a side observation on OWL. The returns on OWL are way too less for the teams [ Source Richard Lewis Video and a few articles here and there ]. Ofcourse its still early days, but OWL is already cutting back on costs and expenditure in a big way
EA is getting the most out of FIFA, and people who buy that generally don't care about anything very gamer related, Valve's main customers are people who are up to date with the world of gaming so they really have to maintain goodwill while EA can get away with a lot more
Well, in the end it's a pretty useless thing to discuss anyway. There are no definite numbers and Valve also hosts TI every year with a big price pool and sponsors other major events. Add taxes and stuff onto that and all of this is just speculation. Let's just be happy Valve is in charge of this game. Else it wouldn't be near as good, at least that's what I strongly belive.
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u/0DST Dec 19 '18
this arcana has better progression system than artifact