Valve’s Dota 2 reached an unwanted milestone on Wednesday after a recent count showed a sharp decline in the number of players in Dota 2 with a new 449,000 concurrent players, which is a record-low number and a source of deep concern for the state of Dota 2.
Dota 2 is one of Valve’s oldest games available, but despite that fact, a couple of games have popped up and beaten Dota 2’s player count record several times in recent years.
On Wednesday, a new AAA game went on an all-time peak as well as becoming the most-played game currently. The game is an AAA game, Black Myth: Wukong. Black Myth: Wukong currently has a peak 2.2 million player count compared to Dota 2’s 1.2 million.
In comparison, the last time Dota 2’s peak count was impressive was eight years ago in March 2016 with Dota2 failing to maintain or regain such a high player count since then.
The recent developments have led to the resurrection of discussions surrounding the status of Dota 2, whether it’s dying or not, has come to the fore. Meanwhile, Valve has continued to put up its best efforts to keep Dota 2 alive, and gain new players.
Most of their latest efforts have been focused on in-game-oriented updates, with unique features like Aghanim’s Shard abilities, expanded map, innate abilities, and facets.
Elsewhere, the CEO of 100 Thieves Nadeshot, has revealed that there would be a different scenario right now if he were to recreate the organisation today saying he would have taken a different direction.
100Thieves was established seven years ago in 2017 and has grown to be identified as one of the biggest brands in esports and gaming. Despite its success, the American spoke on Tuesday on a podcast where he admitted that he would have taken a different direction and not focused on the Esports industry if he had to retrace his steps.
While not undermining the value of esports organizations and brands, the 100T CEO that operating solely as an esports gaming business isn’t financially profitable.
