I don't like how LoL only has 4 actives and 1 passive.

  LoL skills are also worse than DotA's.  Well, they're like the old DotA hero's which havent' gotten redone by Icefrog yet.  Icefrog is a better skill designer than the old DotA guys.
  However, I hear LoL skills are getting redone to be improved, and the ones they had up on the site are just old..

  Besides that, I don't know.  The invite beta starts soon.

League of Legends...did they just get the WC3 engine for that game?  I just looked at screenshots and the graphics look almost the same as WC3.  Art style looks very silly.  Don't really know anything about the gameplay

Edit:  just looked into LoL a bit more....the graphics suck, but I have to say it sounds a bit more promising.  already a huge following (mainly from the dota community) and the game seems to be headed in a more dota-like competitive direction. i have a feeling that demigod and LoL will be different enough, though, that they will draw from different groups of players.  it'll probably be worth playing both of them. but who knows, LoL isn't close to being out yet, Demigod is.  hopefully i get into LoL beta, would be excited to give feedback on it like I have for this game

Yeah, it's like a candy coated version of WC3 graphics, which is saying something.  Diablo 3 doesn't come close to being like that stuff.  Haha.  But if they really focus on making it competitive / e-sporty then it may be worth playing despite the annoying art direction.

I'm kind of glad the graphics are so decidedly different from Demigod, though.  Means it's even more likely that the games will play and feel differently enough to be worth having both.

I personally believe that both games will be able to co-exist, and in a weird way, one game will help support the other by making this genre that much more known and played outside of the regular dota community.  For example, some guys are command & conquer guys, some guys are starcraft guys, but both RTS games co-existed well with each other, and even though some people who were new to the RTS genre may not have liked command & conquer, they may have found their fit with starcraft, for example.

Sure, some will prefer Demigod, some will prefer League of Legends.  I've pre-ordered Demigod, and I plan on checking out LoL when it comes out as well.  My greatest conrern for LoL, however, is that it will get most of the elitist community from DotA.  As several people know, the elitist DotA community isn't exactly the friendliest bunch.  However, my fear may be completely unfounded, and both games may get outstanding communities.

I'm looking forward to our Demigod / LoL future 

LoL will have different maps and gamemodes too instead of just the 5v5 dota map, which will be a big improvement.

But what I never liked about DotA was there weren't any character builds.  DotA was about memorizing how to play each hero.  You bought pretty much the same items with that character each game, because those items worked best with it.  It wasn't aabout makigna biuld with items to suit that build.. each character had a way you had to build it.  So it was all about playing the char to it's strengths.  I guess some people like that.. I don't.

I'm sure it'll be a great game for DotA fans, so right there it'll sell probably 100k-500k copies, which is a lot consisdering they probably have a budget that just costs them a dollar per player their going to get.  But I never liked DotA much in the first place.

It's sure going to hurt Demigod, reputation wise I think, if LoL has double the matches played in leagues, so hopefully Demigod will be shaped up a lot better by the time LoL is released.

Anything that will get the nutty Dota zealots to go away has to be a good thing. All hail LOL.

We do, they just aren't balanced out for every DG.  The best right now in terms of multiple viable builds are probably Regulus and UB, imo.  The rest need some work, but they have more than 3 weeks to get it right

If they keep present skill lines then there would be - you forgot stats builds ^^

Well, in response to your point about builds, I think the tradeoff is even if LoL heroes all sort of have one perfect way to play them, there are going to be like 16-20 of them in at release and probably many more to come, so there will be a ton of variety.  Demigod, even once it's updated with more Demigods and skills, will have a lot fewer Demigods with perhaps 1-2, maybe as much as 3 main builds.  So it'll even out. 

My hope is that Demigod and LoL are both fun but are apples / oranges enough so that people aren't constantly comparing them, and so that there won't be a zero sum feeling between the playerbases.  In other words, people will play both games, not one or the other.  It'll probably be that way to a significant degree no matter what, though.

wow and people talk about dota players being elitist? demigod hasn't even come out yet and you're already acting all high and mighty about it.

Not wanting the game you're playing to be reworked entirely into a game that already exists is not elitism.

I am here because I want to play Demigod. I have played Dota and I don't like it. I get pretty sick of the same half dozen Dota zealots attacking everything about Demigod that isn't like Dota.

I have been plenty critical about Demigod during the betas and now that it is really good in most ways, I feel good about my posting contributions.  It's not elitism to not want the game you like turned into a game you don't like.