> remember nearly 40-50K people turn up to watch any competitive dota2 game.
Only while it's free. I doubt that they will start charging money for professional games, simply because no one does that. The only actual advantage of DotA 2 against other MOBA games (LoL, HoN, DotA1) are tournaments with huge prizes ("the International", $1M for first place lots of lesser ones). It's not like DotA2 is so much more interesting to watch than HoN/LoL.
Only while it's free. I doubt that they will start charging money for professional games, simply because no one does that. The only actual advantage of DotA 2 against other MOBA games (LoL, HoN, DotA1) are tournaments with huge prizes ("the International", $1M for first place lots of lesser ones). It's not like DotA2 is so much more interesting to watch than HoN/LoL.