{"id":56150,"date":"2013-07-10T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56150"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T07:48:13","slug":"dota-2-launches-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56150-dota-2-launches-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 launches on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an eternity in beta, Valve\u2019s free-to-play MOBA has finally launched on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>PC gamers can head over to the game\u2019s page and jump in the queue to download the game. The queue has been created to avoid a rush of players that could overload the servers.<\/p>\n<p>Players will be \u201clet in\u201d in batches to download the game and start playing, where Valve can monitor how the system reacts and manages the bulk of players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thinking is that we want the existing audience to have uninterrupted access during the launch, in addition to bringing new players into Dota 2 in a way that isn&#8217;t frustrating,\u201d said Valve. \u201cSimply put, we want to smooth out the traditional launch spike, but at the same time allow anyone to come in and try out Dota 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/570\" target=\"_blank\">Steam and get in the queue for Dota 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to test your Dota 2 skills, there&#8217;s still time to enter the<a title=\"MyGaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/forumdisplay.php\/26-Dota-2-MyGaming-Sunday-Evening-Cup-Series-hosted-by-PolarfluKe\"> MyGaming Dota 2 tournament, sponsored by Cooler Master<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dota2.com\/thebetaisover\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2 official site<\/a><a title=\"Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/570\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Dota 2 news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/54224-dota-2-breaks-steam-record-again.html\">Dota 2 breaks Steam record, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/54031-steam-trading-cards-introduced-by-valve.html\">Steam Trading Cards introduced by Valve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53557-dota-2-national-trials-produces-winner.html\">Dota 2 national trials produces winner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dota 2 finally exits beta and reaches its official release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6514,2218,21,85,697],"class_list":["post-56150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-defence-of-the-ancients-2","tag-dota-2","tag-headline","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56152,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56150\/revisions\/56152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}