Dota 2 ti4 panel discussion

General Discussion2GD fired

I found him entertaining especially during a tournament that honeslty we could host in one of our houses and have better quality.

Why did they fire him , still havent found a reason.

He talked shit about envy, like nonstop and was serious about it.. Imo reason enough to fire him. Was fun at times but he went yolo and completely overboard

you guys actually watch the commentaries? The production quality is atrocious, like I realize they probably don’t have professional hair/makeup teams, but is there zero wardrobe control? Most of the guys pants don’t even fit right. And they sit on couches with “throw” pillows that look like a normal pillow for sleeping, wtf are you napping in between games? Lighting is awful, and so many technical glitches, like that interview with ehome where they didn’t know they were on for a minute and stood there mute.

And most of what they say isn’t ground breaking or anything beyond the obvious, that’s part of why I don’t watch live, bigger reason is time difference and job obviously, but being able to fast forward to actual matches is great. I like merilini cus he actually seems normal, capitalist is ok but better as an announcer, synderenn however it’s spelt is better as a color guy when I can’t see his face cus he seems squirrely despite having pretty decent opinions on strats.

Merlini is my favorite I don’t get how so many people/players hate him ‘-‘

2GD is god of entertainment, no one even comes close to him in Dota 2 world. Merlini is his total oposite, boring as hell. I could actually fall asleep listening to this guy. But he has knowledge and gives nice insight most of the time.

do you have a vod of the talk?

I’m sure Valve understand the implications of cutting him midway through the tournament; something major must have happened. I’d like to think there was a good, or at least big, reason for it.

@Benao: People hate merlini? I have always liked the guy

Valve told him before they hired him he can be himself and he did that. Then they sack him for being himself. Who would understand those braindead retards.

James was great and very entertaining for a Major that production value is shit. He kept me interested in watching people talk about dota. Dota 2 ti4 panel discussion And screw Enternal Envy the guy is a jerk and flames everyone. Gaben is just an ass

well the reasons for him being fired haven’t been fully revealed, and being told to “be himself” is only his side of the story, what actually happened hasn’t been disclosed yet.

all gabe has said is that he thinks james is an ass and that they’re firing the production company. he hasn’t said what he did to get fired though.

@dasmehdi
the twitter message about EE complaining to PW was faked.

Is that this ridiculous new guy who was on commentary panel 1st on left?

Sadman . really. New? james answered his side in a nice long document, but very detailed. Honestly Valve has no idea what the Dota community is or wants.

Seriously, such a big deal is made out of this it’s insane. I don’t listen to the casters nor the panels so I honestly couldn’t care less. Also it’s their fucking company and tournament. They do whatever the fuck they want and if you don’t like it, don’t support them, simple as that.

@sam
just because you don’t listen to the analyst panel doesn’t mean everyone else does the same. judging from the outrage i’m guessing the majority are the opposite and did enjoy james’ banter, that’s what makes him a great host.

“Also it’s their fucking company and tournament. They do whatever the fuck they want and if you don’t like it, don’t support them, simple as that.”
yeah, they can do whatever they want. does that mean they should, or should be justified when they make bad decisions? companies that make bad decisions lose business. that’s why companies don’t do “whatever the fuck they want”, whenever they want to, because then outrage like this happens, and then gabe makes a public statement simply calling 2gd an ass, which is just digging a deeper hole.

take paid mods or diretide for example. it takes so much backlash just for valve’s PR to respond and basically say “we now realise we fucked up”. if people don’t voice their opinion they’ll probably think that they did nothing wrong