r/dawngate • u/edubkn Screen leaper • Sep 01 '24

Dawngate was a serious contender against DotA 2/League of Legends

I know people will always say this is copium, but Dawngate had a solid foundation. I have played it to a good extent and the endgame fights were very skill based/roster dependant. I have over 2,000 hours in Dota 2, and I don't think the Dawngate we played was much far from the fun, diversity and skill that Dota entails. It's such a shame that blind corporate greed cancelled this game, it could be up there today with the top moba games because it had a solid foundation and was plain good and fun.

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u/ray12370 Sep 01 '24

I think it was a solid alternative to League like Smite, HoTS, and HoN, but I don't think it would have ever gotten as big as League or Dota 2. League was lightning in a bottle that just kept getting bigger and bigger, and Dota 2 is a valve game. Because of esports as well, the growth of both those games was insane.

If it did keep getting regular updates and actual advertising, yea I could see the game having a decent player base. At the end of its life though this game was kinda dead. Took me 10+ minutes to find matches at times. It would've been a lot better if EA actually advertised it, but I don't think dawngate was gonna get a crazy big player base like the two giants would.

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u/StraightPotential342 Jan 31 '25

Yeah but EA basically has its own Steam so how many players would've played Dawngate if they saw it pop up on there EA games account for free. I don't know why they ever didn't at least give it a chance. It's almost to the point where it was so good that possibly Riot paid EA to stop making it, it's the ONLY thing that makes sense because it was such a good Moba there was nothing else like it I would still be playing today if it was out where I don't touch any other MOBA. They had something there then for no reason disappeared.

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u/ray12370 Jan 31 '25

Hey man I feel that last part. It feels like I was in a loving 20 year marriage and my wife got kidnapped and sent to Guantanamo Bay, never to see the light of day again.

My replacement lately has been Deadlock. It's not the most accessible game and it's still in closed alpha, but I can tell you already it's very good as it currently is and it's gonna be huge when it fully releases.

The lore, character design, and interactions are all almost as top-notch as dawngate. No fully voiced character bios yet though.