This might be a really outdated news or whatever it is but, I just found out about couple of weeks ago. Few of you might knew that I'm a DotA die hard fan but does not mean I'm not a pro either. I playing for my own satisfaction with my KJ friends. For those, who wondering what the heck is DotA - it is actually an abbreviation for Defense of the Ancients: a custom scenario map for Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne and it's famous around the world. Now, I'm not going to give a speech about DotA origin or whatsoever - if you want to know more about DotA head to here.To play DotA, you need at least one opponent - max is 5 vs 5 and trust me it's more the merrier. The DotA authors did create maps with AI (Artificial Intelligence) for lone gamers and no matter how strong it is, one would not have the feel as playing with the humans. That's why the gamers burning the midnight oil+cash playing at the cybercafes. If you want to play at home, you can play in LAN among friends and you can play online only IF you have genuine copy of Warcraft and Battle.net account and who want to buy RM150++ worth game, right? So how you going to play DotA in LAN if you are a lone gamer or online if you using pirate copy?
Blueserver? That was smart. Sad to say, the registeration had been closed due to increase case of *leaver . What the heck? Just fricking ban those *noobs. However, I read (kinda unsure about the source) that to create an account in Blueserver you need to register on Sunday using Streamyx account. Hm, thats frickin' wierd right? Register on Sunday? FengShui? Whateverrr. In spite of that, I did tried using my friend's account to play and almost made his account to banned because left the game halfway (the game was *lagging actually). Frustrated, don't know what to do - I just simply Googled 'online DotA' and suprisingly found a positive answer and it's about GG Client.
Read short description assure its not some stupid spyware, downloaded and installed. Create an account and read briefly how to play DotA and login. After that, clicked on 'Local Area Network' and suprisingly saw few LAN games there, browsed for DotA and click Join. Guess what I was playing like crazy and can't stop cursing myself for not Googled GG Client before (I know, I know it's a bit drama queen sort of. I'm just excited).
GG Client is a platform that let's players to connect and play with a good latency thus turn the Internet into a huge cybercafe. I do experience lags and that depends on host - if the host have stable Internet connection and did proper tunneling (tunneling?I don't either. It's like reduce the lagsin game). GGClient not only supports LAN games for Warcraft 3 but supports Counter-Strike, Age of Empire, Sudden Strike, StarCraft and Call of Duty. If you interested to know more, just head to GG Client Forum.
*leaver - gamer that leave the game halfway
*noob - newbie
*lag - (slang) is a symptom where the result of an action appears later than expected.
