00:00Essentially, the main problem is that North America is too expensive of a country with really bad support systems,
00:08so basically you have to go to college in North America, or get a job, or you're just going to
00:13starve to death,
00:14because it's not like Europe or whatever, where you have social nets and stuff, so you can do this stuff.
00:19You can actually commit to playing pro.
00:21On top of that, North America is generally quite wealthy,
00:26so consoles were more prevalent, and land cafes were not, and Dota is a land cafe game.
00:32So the game just wasn't very popular, relatively, because people just had consoles and they played shooters,
00:36because that was just like the cultural norm in North America.
00:41And the combination of those two things basically made it an inevitability it would just die.
