Despite the previous popularity of Dota 1, the developer of Dota 2 did not initially expect the game to be this popular.
Dota 2 has been one of the mainstay esports title for more than ten years after the first TI. They proceeded to surprise many on the esports scene with the first tournament with astronomical prizepool of $1 Million.
However, it turns out one of the developer themselves did not expect Dota to blow up in popularity after the tournament.
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Speaking in his own Twitter account, one of the ex-Dota developer, ZoidCTF, elaborated this sentiment. He initially developed the matchmaking for Dota 2 to include 32bit value only, on the notion of there would be one game per second.
It was then revealed that the game count quickly moved to more than 15 games per second. Consequently, this called a cause for the revision of the matchmaking engine.
The developer further revealed that in the span of 12 years, 7 billion matches had been played. Approximately, that would be 18 matches played for the game per second, in the entire lifetime of the game.
It was safe to say that Dota had far surged the initial developer’s expectation in terms of popularity.
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