You still have to purchase a copy of the game tho, right? We might just have to broaden our definition of how people interact with video games to cover the spectator aspect, because its still participating in the game.
(Minecraft is also in the proces of implementing a 'spectator' mode)
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Date: 2014-04-16 07:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-04-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-04-16 07:57 pm (UTC)And I think a lot of the DOTA 2 is from people watching tournaments live in client, rather than vods on youtube posted later.
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Date: 2014-04-16 08:02 pm (UTC)(Since Steam's tracked hours for ~5 years now, more or less for various games and with varying reliability, there's data from a lot of "old" games.)
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Date: 2014-04-17 01:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-04-17 01:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-04-17 04:38 am (UTC)(Minecraft is also in the proces of implementing a 'spectator' mode)
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Date: 2014-04-16 11:24 pm (UTC)-- Steve is gratified, though, to see it's the only one of the top 6 to whose delinquency he contributed.
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Date: 2014-04-17 08:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-04-16 11:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-04-17 05:30 am (UTC)I also have about 20 games on my Steam account, exactly one of which I've ever played.