When comparing Dota 2 vs Prime World, the Slant community recommends Dota 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best MOBA games for PC? ” Dota 2 is ranked 3rd while Prime World is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Dota 2 is:
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Pros
Pro Fair free-to-play business model
Microtransactions involve only cosmetic items such as custom weapon designs or clothing colors and tickets to view live events.
Pro Start with all heroes
You don't need to unlock or purchase characters.
Pro Incredibly deep gameplay
For players who put the time into Dota 2 to get past the early beginner phase, Dota 2 can become an extremely satisfying game. There's a reason it's one of the most popular eSports titles in the world. The amount of strategy, skill, and variables involved make it a very deep game where anything could happen.
Pro A very diverse MOBA
This game has a steep learning curve, but it's well worth it. The games that came after Dota like League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, Smite, and other lookalikes don't even compare to the complexity of Dota 2.
Every hero is unique and valuable in one team composition or another. The amount of versatility of each hero is amazing as well. The mechanics by far destroy any other Dota style game (MOBA) and that's what makes this game top tier in its genre. This game is the highest grossing eSport game in the world and will probably continue to be for a long time.
Pro It's very well-balanced
Gameplay is balanced in the sense that while other MOBAs would have only around 30-60 viable picks for the competitive scene, Dota 2 has heroes and strategies in the game that are more varied, which enables more heroes to be picked in the competitive scene.
Number of Heroes Picked in Dota 2's Recent Major Tournament in the past 4 months (as of July 2016) is 86/111 heroes picked and 100 out of 111 heroes picked.
To compare between Dota 2 and LoL pick diversity, LoL has 64 out of 131 champions picked for LCS.
There are also factors such as the ban/pick phase difference and the more rigid positions in LoL that may limit the viability for different playstyles and hero picks (typically it is 2 (AD, Support Bot) -1 (AP mid) -1 (Tank Off) - 1 (Jungler), with a possibility of double junglers in LoL).
On the other hand in Dota 2, there are a lot more different positions compared to Lol/Smite such as Duo Mid (1-2-2), Traditional (2-1-2), One Jungler (1-2-1-1, most similar to league), One Roamer (1-2-1-1 as well with the difference being the hero roams the map for kills to create space for the mid and safelane rather than farm the jungle which can weaken a lane), Duo Roamer (1-1-1-2, all lanes are weaker in lane presence with the tradeoff being they get solo experience with two aggressive supports roaming), Trilane (1-1-3, Aggressive or Passive Trilane) and Abandoned Offlane (0-1-3-1 where the offlane is completely left empty due to a strong duo or trilane on the opposing team).
More heroes are viable and balanced in Dota 2 partly due to the greater flexibility in laning. This can be attributed the mechanics such as creep pulling and creep stacking which allows the team doing trilane to make up for the shared experience between three heroes. Besides that, the existence of teleport scrolls that allow you to defend your towers or punish a tower dive also allows you to react and assist other lanes.
In pub games, any hero/lane/lineup can work, and it is more about your individual mechanical skills (understanding of hero, combo execution, map awareness, last hitting, timings, item builds, flow) over the lack of coordination and teamwork (on both teams).
Pro Has user-created custom games
Dota 2 includes Workshop Tools that allow users to create custom games as well as other play them.
Pro Moba-leading graphics
When compared to other leading MOBAs, Dota2 has some of the best graphics to be found.
Pro In-game mic
Has in-game mic so you can get toxic with voice chat.
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Pro Very active professional scene
Dota 2 has one of the most active professional scenes in eSports today. If it's not the most active, it's certainly got the largest prize pools, coming in at over $20 million in 2016.
Pro Players can trade self-made cosmetic items
The game includes a system for players to create, buy, and sell cosmetic items.
Pro Dota 2 has the world's biggest e-sports tournament
At The International 7 in summer 2017, players raised the prize pool to more than $23 million, one of the largest prize pools in sSports history.
Pro Can be played online and offline
However, you will need to be logged in to Steam either way.
Pro Good for brain
Trains brain hard.
Pro Regularly updated
Dota 2 is regularly patched and changed with new characters being introduced and balance changes made. This can prevent the game from becoming too stale as the tactics utilized by players changes often.
Pro Well designed talent system that's flexible and easy to use
All heroes start with a few preset abilities that are intuitive and easy to use, making the game easy to jump into for newer players. By participating in battles and building out your city, you will gain access to various resources that can be used to expand the talents of your heroes.
Since there's such a large variety of talents, two players playing as the same hero may have completely different builds. This allows for a lot of experimentation, and since most builds are viable, you don't have to worry about making a bad choice and can simply let your creativity run wild.
During gameplay itself, nothing is too overpowered or underpowered, resulting in a talent setups that are balanced and feel fluid. All spells and abilities work well and compliment each other in a way that some other MOBAs fail to achieve.
Pro Native terrain feature is a unique concept
Controlling and gaining benefits from certain areas of the map through the native terrain feature adds an exciting new strategic element to gameplay that isn't seen in other MOBAs.
Scattered around the PvP maps are flagpoles that can be captured by either team. Once captured, the area around the flag becomes your team's 'native terrain'.
When you're standing on your own native terrain, you get buffs and other special abilities such as being able to teleport to any section of your terrain, damage modifiers on spells and abilities, summoning better pets, and being able to run faster. These buffs vary based on which hero you're playing, and are different for each and every hero in the game.
Pro City building gives you something to do while you wait in queue
While you're waiting for your 5v5 or 3v3 queue, you can build and customize a city with various buildings that provides benefits to your heroes and produces the resources used to buy new heroes and even craft some new talents.
The castle in your city is tied to your account and has it's own experience system. It levels up when you participate in the game's various activities like winning battles and completing quests.
It's rather simplistic, but it offers a nice distraction while you're waiting to get into the action, and adds a little bit of flavor to the game.
Pro Having two factions offers a unique choice
Prime World is one of the only MOBA games to allow the player to choose a faction - either the Dokht Imperium or the Keepers of Adornia. The buildings and heroes on both sides have their own unique artstyle, but they are otherwise perfect mirrors of each other, so you will never feel like you missed out on a specific hero or playstyle due to your choice. It's a purely aesthetic choice, therefore remaining balanced and fair due to everything being equal on both sides.
By playing one faction or the other, you will see the overarching story from different viewpoints, as well as choose teammates from your faction while facing off against the other. Since the faction choice is permanent, this gives players a chance to become attached to their faction and bond with teammates over their choice, while building a rivalry with the other. Rather than simply sharing a map with a mix of random players like most MOBAs, you and your teammates will consist of and represent your chosen faction as you fight for dominance.
Pro Best rewarding game ever?
Everything is good about this game, and i always feel like im special customer. Alot of rewarding quests, free gifts etc.
Cons
Con It's got a huge learning curve
Dota 2 has 111 heroes, all of which are unique from each other. It will take time and effort to learn which heroes you like to play, and become skilled with them.
Con Rude, toxic community
Many players feel free to flame and insult, especially in the lower ranks and from non-English speaking countries.
Con You can be put into a low priority mode for being bad at the game
Con Matches are too long
The game is great but even just a single match can take a lot of time. And when you get to mid game and realize you already lost, you have no option but to keep dying and literally wait for the game to end.
Con Zero merit goes to good players
If you score, say, a 20 kills 0 deaths but your team loses because 4 people are noobs, you lose -26 personal rank.
Con Miserable community
Takes 100s of hours not to suck, and even then, you're still not going to be good.
Con No SURRENDER option
As ridiculous as it may sound, you are a slave, once you start a game.
You may suffer, you may cry, but you can't concede.
Very much influences an overall toxic atmosphere of game.
Con It's a slow and repetitive game
This might be the most repetitive MOBA game.
Con The controls are terrible
It feels more like SC as a MOBA than an actual MOBA.
Con Waste of time
Con It has voice chat
It boosts rage and toxicity so much it has to be removed.
Con Valve doesn't care about their players
No surrender option and bad teamate can influence your personal mmr even if you perform good. Plus the company seems way too big and the services start to lack and suffer.
Con You love and hate the game
While infuriating at times the addictiveness of the game keeps the players coming back.
Con Game has been broken down to make it noob friendly
Con No checkpoints in single player challenge missions
If you die at any point during the single player challenge missions, you will have to start the entire challenge over. There are no checkpoints and many of these clock in at over 30 minutes. This can be insanely frustrating when you die near the end.
Con Voice acting is poor
The heroes will constantly shout cliche lines when using their abilities such as, "You'll be seeing stars!". Even with the cheesy dialogue aside, the lines aren't delivered with much emphasis or conviction behind them so they lack any kind of power or feeling.
The quest dialogue from NPCs isn't much better. Most of the voices are either flat and devoid of emotion, or completely overacting to the point of it being silly or disruptive to focusing on the game.
Con The heroes are very plain looking
Although there are some exceptions, a majority of the playable heroes are rather boring and unexciting visually. There's not much in the way of epic looking armor, and they appear somewhat generic and bland as if they could have been plucked out of any rehashed fantasy game.