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| Asvhald Spain. November 09 2012 00:58. Posts 112 | Profile # |
A joinDota user posted this a while ago today.
Source (thanks to duoform): http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121107006915/en/Nexon-Valve-Partner-Launch-Dota-2-Korea
TOKYO--BUSINESS WIRE--NEXON Co., Ltd. (3659.TO) (“Nexon”), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced an agreement with Valve Corporation, a leading entertainment software and technology company based in the United States, to publish Dota 2 in Korea and Japan. Dota 2, developed by Valve with legendary designer IceFrog, is the sequel to the genre defining game that has become one of the most played games in the world and a leading title at e-sports tournaments around the world. “We are very excited about working with Valve to publish Dota 2 and build on the worldwide momentum of the highly successful franchise. We look forward to providing players in Japan and Korea the opportunity to experience this exciting new game,” said Min Seo, CEO of Nexon Korea Corporation. Gabe Newell, President of Valve Corporation, said, “Nexon, a company with whom we have a long and strong relationship, was clearly the right choice as a publisher to successfully deliver Dota 2 into the Korean and Japanese market. Partnering with Nexon will allow us to deliver Dota 2 to a massive audience of Asian gamers via a premium service.” In Dota 2, the primary objective is for teams to destroy their opponents’ fortified strongholds by controlling a “Hero” character. Powered by the updated Source engine, Dota 2 will deliver amazing high quality graphics, advanced matchmaking and more while maintaining the perfect game balance aspects of its predecessor. Dedicated franchise fans can look forward to seeing the masterful work of famed Dota developer IceFrog, who is also contributing to the development of DOTA2. NEXON Co., Ltd. http://company.nexon.co.jp/ NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO) is a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games. Founded in Korea in 1994, Nexon developed one of the world's first graphics-based massively multiplayer online games. Nexon also pioneered the concept of microtransactions in the free-to-play business model, setting a new standard in which play is free, and users have the option to purchase in-game items to enhance their experience. Nexon currently services more than 60 online games in more than 100 countries and since its founding, Nexon has generated more than 1.3 billion player registrations. The Company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and its shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Valve Corporation Valve Corporation is a game, software developer headquartered in Washington Bellevue since 1996. In 1998, FPS game, ‘Half-life®’ was released and drew attention of gamers worldwide. Since the launch, ‘Half-life ®', received over 50 ‘Best PC Game of the Year’, and the year of 1999, 2001, 2005, the bestselling game magazine worldwide, ‘PC Gamers’, awarded the game as the “Best PC Game ever”. Valve become recognized for its development capability by introducing ‘Counter-Strike ®', 'Half-Life 2’, ‘Team Fortress 2’, 'Portal 2'. Approximately 70 million copies of these titles were sold worldwide. Not only with its game titles, Valve is also known as the developer of popular 3D ‘Source ®’ game engine and services its online platform ‘Steam ®' for 50 million users worldwide. Valve is currently under development of ‘Dota 2’. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=50470763&lang=enContacts NEXON Co., Ltd. Owen Mahoney, Chief Financial Officer, 03-3523-7910
Apparently Valve has teamed up with Nexon (the South-Korean company responsible for F2P games like Maplestory) to deliver Dota 2 to the South Korean and Japanese markets.
Does this mean Dota 2 is nearing release date? How will it fare in the LoL-dominated South Korea? Will we see KeSPA and GSL teams create Dota 2 divisions any time soon?
Exciting :D. |
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| hmsrenown Canada. November 09 2012 01:01. Posts 660 | Profile # |
| I doubt it, unless the prize money for dota2 becomes at least even with LoL in those regions. |
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| duoform Spain. November 09 2012 01:11. Posts 2783 | Profile # |
DotA is not considered an eSports worthy by the Korean scene and yet LoL is getting more spotlight than SC2 right now. Whatever Riot did in Korea... surely did well!
Anyhow, it will be a F2P game and will have place in PC Bangs for sure. Although, I'm quite sure if Valve don't directly supports organizations such has GSL we will never see DotA2 being picked by the Korean scene... sadly!
Speaking of that, I wonder what would happen if Valve started supporting events and organizations and do the same thing that Riot does, but that will never happen and I'm glad!
Looking forward to see what will happen in Japan tho. May became huge there, who knows...
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| N.geNuity United States. November 09 2012 01:12. Posts 3213 | Profile # |
nexon seems pretty successful; maplestory and sudden attack are both successful in online game rankings in korea (with sudden attack also pretty high up in afreeca stream rankings) but LoL is so dominant there.
nexon's involvement should be positive for it though. |
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| SilverStar Sweden. November 09 2012 01:12. Posts 5681 | Profile # |
| Can you post the actual news instead of some blog post and joindota forum post? |
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| hmsrenown Canada. November 09 2012 01:16. Posts 660 | Profile # | |
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| duoform Spain. November 09 2012 01:20. Posts 2783 | Profile # |
TOKYO-- BUSINESS WIRE--NEXON Co., Ltd. (3659.TO) (“Nexon”), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced an agreement with Valve Corporation, a leading entertainment software and technology company based in the United States, to publish Dota 2 in Korea and Japan. Dota 2, developed by Valve with legendary designer IceFrog, is the sequel to the genre defining game that has become one of the most played games in the world and a leading title at e-sports tournaments around the world. “We are very excited about working with Valve to publish Dota 2 and build on the worldwide momentum of the highly successful franchise. We look forward to providing players in Japan and Korea the opportunity to experience this exciting new game,” said Min Seo, CEO of Nexon Korea Corporation. Gabe Newell, President of Valve Corporation, said, “Nexon, a company with whom we have a long and strong relationship, was clearly the right choice as a publisher to successfully deliver Dota 2 into the Korean and Japanese market. Partnering with Nexon will allow us to deliver Dota 2 to a massive audience of Asian gamers via a premium service.” In Dota 2, the primary objective is for teams to destroy their opponents’ fortified strongholds by controlling a “Hero” character. Powered by the updated Source engine, Dota 2 will deliver amazing high quality graphics, advanced matchmaking and more while maintaining the perfect game balance aspects of its predecessor. Dedicated franchise fans can look forward to seeing the masterful work of famed Dota developer IceFrog, who is also contributing to the development of DOTA2. NEXON Co., Ltd. http://company.nexon.co.jp/ NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO) is a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games. Founded in Korea in 1994, Nexon developed one of the world's first graphics-based massively multiplayer online games. Nexon also pioneered the concept of microtransactions in the free-to-play business model, setting a new standard in which play is free, and users have the option to purchase in-game items to enhance their experience. Nexon currently services more than 60 online games in more than 100 countries and since its founding, Nexon has generated more than 1.3 billion player registrations. The Company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and its shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Valve CorporationValve Corporation is a game, software developer headquartered in Washington Bellevue since 1996. In 1998, FPS game, ‘Half-life®’ was released and drew attention of gamers worldwide. Since the launch, ‘Half-life ®', received over 50 ‘Best PC Game of the Year’, and the year of 1999, 2001, 2005, the bestselling game magazine worldwide, ‘PC Gamers’, awarded the game as the “Best PC Game ever”. Valve become recognized for its development capability by introducing ‘Counter-Strike ®', 'Half-Life 2’, ‘Team Fortress 2’, 'Portal 2'. Approximately 70 million copies of these titles were sold worldwide. Not only with its game titles, Valve is also known as the developer of popular 3D ‘Source ®’ game engine and services its online platform ‘Steam ®' for 50 million users worldwide. Valve is currently under development of ‘Dota 2’. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=50470763&lang=enContacts NEXON Co., Ltd. Owen Mahoney, Chief Financial Officer, 03-3523-7910
source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121107006915/en/Nexon-Valve-Partner-Launch-Dota-2-Korea |
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| Asvhald Spain. November 09 2012 01:26. Posts 112 | Profile # |
I'll add that to the OP, thanks  . |
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| Dansickle November 09 2012 01:27. Posts 152 | Profile # |
I'll be interested to see how this plays out in Korea. Inevitably, though, I'll be frustrated when I have to make an entirely new account to play on Korean servers to deal with their ridiculous laws on video game accounts.
Part of the reason that DotA2 isn't big over here is because of that, btw. I frequent a couple of PCBangs and the owners won't install DotA2 or any games related to Steam. The gamers here just don't have the kind of access to the game that they do to LoL. |
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| Asvhald Spain. November 09 2012 01:38. Posts 112 | Profile # |
Well we have to hope that Nexon, knowing their home market and the laws and regulations that go with it, is able to turn Dota2 there into the powerhouse that it deserves to be.
As a purely personal opinion, Valve's business model strikes me as a more honest one than Riot's, feels more "right" to me and, while I don't specifically want LoL to fail, I think, from a consumer standpoint, Valve and Dota2 deserve, as of today, to be at the top of this sector. |
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| parazice Thailand. November 09 2012 01:41. Posts 3350 | Profile # |
| not gonna work in Japan imo |
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| innociv United States. November 09 2012 01:57. Posts 106 | Profile # |
I really think the only way that Dota2 will become big in Korea is if Nexon does what Tencent/Riot does.
LoL has a strong foothold there and Koreans follow trends strongly. |
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| duoform Spain. November 09 2012 02:07. Posts 2783 | Profile # |
On November 09 2012 01:57 innociv wrote:
I really think the only way that Dota2 will become big in Korea is if Nexon does what Tencent/Riot does.
LoL has a strong foothold there and Koreans follow trends strongly.
Valve would never agree with that terms. Everyone knows that's not helping the eSports scene at all but only thinking about your own game. And this is why I will never understand why everyone is supporting a company who does that. Look at CGS. It quickly died because how stupid it was even tho the event and venue itself was amazing... don't get me wrong, putting money into eSports is great and all but the way Riot does it, is wrong!
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| Haee November 09 2012 02:24. Posts 237 | Profile Blog # |
Not surprising, Valve and Nexon seemingly had a steady relationship in Korea since Left 4 Dead (2) has a bit of a niche base in PC cafe from my own experience and Dota 2 should have decent appeal already with it's free to play model already in place.
IMO, I suspect DotA 2 to easily be Valve's most established game in Korea, which isn't saying a lot seeing how Sudden Attack has so much hold over FPS's in the Korean market. Like a previous poster has mentioned however, "trends" are everything in the Korean market as a whole and it's always been a tough threshold to break in terms of trying to establish a market. |
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 heyoka Administrator November 09 2012 02:30. | Profile Blog # |
| Nexon makes a lot of sense, good on them. Seems like the game is unlikely to catch on in Korea though, remain as a smaller niche. |
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| Snuggles United States. November 09 2012 02:32. Posts 1754 | Profile Blog # |
| I wonder if the Japanese would even touch the game lol. |
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 TheEmulator Canada. November 09 2012 02:35. Posts 5009 | Profile Blog # |
| Hopefully this works out. Korea has one of the best Esports markets, and it would suck if Dota 2 didn't catch on there. |
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| duoform Spain. November 09 2012 02:38. Posts 2783 | Profile # |
| How good are the computers in PC Bangs over there? We all know that Source engine runs in a potato but I imagine Korea having better pc's overall than China. |
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| Jakkerr Netherlands. November 09 2012 02:40. Posts 2428 | Profile # |
On November 09 2012 02:35 TheEmulator wrote:
Hopefully this works out. Korea has one of the best Esports markets, and it would suck if Dota 2 didn't catch on there.
The Chinese and Malaysian market are more important for Dota then the Korean market |
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| Dattish Sweden. November 09 2012 02:41. Posts 2752 | Profile # |
On November 09 2012 02:40 Jakkerr wrote:
Show nested quote +On November 09 2012 02:35 TheEmulator wrote:
Hopefully this works out. Korea has one of the best Esports markets, and it would suck if Dota 2 didn't catch on there.
The Chinese and Malaysian market are more important for Dota then the Korean market
pinoy market aswell. |
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