what went wrong

>>716242941 (OP)
Valve

you making this thread

>>716243001
t. peruvian

>>716242941 (OP)
If Team Spirit didn't exist then EWC would have been better to watch; That's what went wrong. I hope Ti is more interesting and it's not one team effortlessly beating everyone.

>>716243564
Russians are just too good at vidya

outdated

>>716243631
They aren't equally good, though. I wanted Team Spirit and Pvision in the Grand Final but it wasn't. Maybe Pvision will win Ti instead. Who do you think will win?

>>716242941 (OP)
nothing. the game is kino. all mute for solo play, queue up with friends. peak gaming.

>>716242990
grim

>>716243564
everyone want to see that ugly ass miposhka lose

>>716242941 (OP)
I don't know if anything "went wrong." It's an old game and it just ran its course. I'm too scared to even look at how many hours I have logged in Dota, but it's certainly over 500. Eventually I just got bored with it and moved on. To Valve's credit, they've done everything they can to artificially prolong the game's lifestyle as I understand the game still receives regular and significant updates. I haven't played in years, but I know they used to regularly rework the entire map and I heard that they did a pretty substantial map rework just a year or two ago. Eventually, however, people just move on.

>>716243961
>To Valve's credit, they've done everything they can to artificially prolong the game's lifestyle
They fucking killed the game by introducing shit nobody wanted. 7.00 killed off the game with their retarded changes.
Meanwhile LoL that's older just gains more and more players.

>>716242990
>ChatGPT is... Le bad
Valve has some problems but none of them are related to AI.

>>716244102
>They fucking killed the game
the same retards playing the game are the same playing back before 7.0, stockholm syndrome autists that refuse to move on
the game cant attract new players

>>716244483
LoL can

>>716243891
Have you played any interesting matches recently? I've been playing Turbo to fix my behaviour score and I keep losing to backdooring. It's so stupid. It even happens at pro level. I'll watch Collapse take an early tower because he picked Lycan and rushed Helm of the Overlord.
I'm fine with the strategy in normal matches, but it's really frustrating in Turbo.

>>716242941 (OP)
nothing at all its the greatest game made thats the boogeyman of /v/

>>716243564
wcyd they are the goat dota team

>>716244102
You can't please everyone. Look at Valve's other games like TF2 and L4D2 where the community would LOVE to get some kind of update that isn't just "officially released" community made slop. CS2 gets a few bones here and there, but it's mostly cosmetics to keep the market going, but Dota2 still gets more updates than just about anything else that Valve works on. You can complain about those updates, but people would also be complaining if Valve didn't do anything

>>716244604
I would wager LoL is having the same problem

>>716244953
>they are the goat dota team

They actually are. OG won two TIs and disappeared, but Team Spirit won two TIs and then kept playing up until now, where they may win a third TI. How do you feel about Pvision?

>>716244975
Dota 2 gets like 1-2 updates per year and it takes them MONTHS to even balance and path super broken shit.

I will never forgive Valve for backstabbing Tobiwan

>>716245221
pvision is a great team but satanic cant carry shit if noone is having a shit game but they do have a great chance at winning TI dota right now is the most competitive it has ever been its hard to call

pvision not banning np was crazy at ewc against ts

>>716245443
>pvision not banning np was crazy at ewc against ts

Yeah, I remember Spirit first picked NP and Pvision lost 0-2. It was so disappointing because I was watching the EWC vlogs from Pvision. I'm glad they beat Tundra and got 3rd place.

>>716243891
if everyone talking about the game pretends the game hasnt taken a nosedive, the devs will keep destroying the game with their disgusting patches, and the players will all leave, and the devs can finally become homeless
I like this plan, let's keep pretending nothing is wrong with nudota.
>>716243961
>pretending you get to talk about dota with 500 hours
asmongold stream is on, you should watch that instead of talking about all this nerd shit you dont even really like
>>716244102
7.00 is nothing. 7.00~7.29 is playable.
These new patches are pure, concentrated cancer wrapped in shit

>>716245573
kez is soulful but he is just the melee version of invoker so no one plays that nigga

>>716244102
League is deader than dota

>>716245667
kez was the actual reason to uninstall for a lot of people.
they found the fangirl character era (hoodwink, trannymage) and noticed that it was a failure in terms of character (haha wow look at my 1000 magic damage at level 6! with a skillshot mechanic! just like league! because if they can get rid of target unit in league, we should do that too!!!)
so they decided to extend the failure into chracter gameplay as well.
Thank you kez, thank you dota devs, thank you valve.

>>716245675

>>716245907
It's dead in spirit. Safe, neutered onions junk

>>716245907
>November 2021

Are Leaguetrannies for real?

>>716245997
Lol league players are reaching for anything no one plays the main game mode anymore of the game everyone is on the auto battler or aram

>>716245573
>>716245667
>>716245897
QRD? I quit long before Kez. Why the seething?

>>716246113
I wouldn't care about LoL even if it had more players. I watched Esports World Cup, and apparently the LoL stadium was bigger than the Dota 2 one. It means nothing to me, because LoL is still for casuals.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Lzx11gKDtig?si=w38p6fIDBcL2fD1W

>>716245675
imbecile

>>716245907
>4 years ago
League's playerbase has since dropped to 120 million. Turns out Arcane fans just wanted to watch gay sex, not play a shitty DotA clone.

>>716246142
Lol kez got the "zoomer" personality that's why

>>716246142
I have never touched kez before in my life. I have never even heard a single one of his voicelines.
I've played against him and immediately every one of my suspicions from looking at his retarded moveset was confirmed.
Kez is the epitome of league character design. No stuns, interrupts are silence/disarm/slows/etc, low cooldown skills with tons of mobility (hi akali), melee with a shitload of auxillary/secondary aoe & dots that's damage only.
Pure fucking cancer.

>>716247041
Yeah, Kez feels like a League of Legends character. It's good that he's not OP. Something like NP is better just because he can teleport across the map.

>>716247041
Lol kez is the last nigga you should be crying about when np is meta and SS with his giant ward

>>716246616
>League's playerbase has since dropped to 120 million.
Source?

>>716247331
He's complaining about the design being bad, not about it being overpowered dumbass

>>716247147
Furion is ranged, and just from being ranged they can apply a lot of limitations to him that would be unacceptable on a melee hero.
The biggest one would be movement - a 3 second delayed teleport basically means that if you make the wrong decision on a jump in, you really don't have a viable escape (it's why retards build shadowblade on him).
Compare this to kez who just gets to move around in fights like he's antimage (who needs to buy AOE and have it reserved as a medium cooldown ult)
God I hate kez
if kez was deleted tomorrow everyone would be better off

>>716247331
>SS with his giant ward

Oh my god. Which team did I watch lose to double giant ward? I think it was vs BB vs Tundra. BetBoom have the best def in the game, and they got backdoored like I do when I play Dota.

>>716247437
Kez design is fine niggas just looking for something to cry about

>pro players are suppose to be good
>they pick Bane against Lycan
>the enemy team has no dispels
>bane maxes sleep first
>doesn't skill enfeeble that makes lycan 100% useless
>lycan instantly removes sleep every fight with wolves
But pros are suppose to be good?

>>716247552
Kez is an affront to humanity. It reeks of someone who worked on league, got fired and remains clueless on why they got fired. Nevermind "it insists upon itself", it's the ultimate fuck you from a team of devs that are so desperately trying to turn dota into league that they just want to show you this diamond they polished to a sheen.
Except it's not a diamond. It's not even a turd.
It's league.

>>716247506
Look at this fucking shit. Saksa did Ward + refresh + Ward on the throne. It happens to the pros too.

>>716247852
That was a great game bzm invoker was going crazy

>>716248042
>That was a great game

You can tell it's a good game even if someone hasn't watched it.
>1-1
>37-35
It wasn't Spirit vs Pvision 0-2 bullshit. It's very cathartic to see pros sad because they lose to gay shit (because it happens to us too).

https://youtu.be/bxEZ8F6bu48?si=V2h1MrrBkIApsyf9

>>716247852
>>716247506
>>716247331
>TI2023: 6 heart of tarrasque every game
>Valve: oh my god we're so sorry, I don't know what happened, here, have -500hp on heart of tarrasque
>TI2024: wr mirana daed bkb every game
>Valve: oh my god we're so sorry, I don't know what happened, here, have 10 (TEN) nerfs to windrunner in a single fucking patch and let me remove mirana altogether
>TI2025:
Dota has been unplayable for literal years at this point and expecting valve to know anything about balance changes is beyond delusional. Stop pretending that valve is above having its own competency crisis.

>>716248193
wtf tundra doesnt even really talk while bb team is yapping away

>>716242941 (OP)
Complete map symmetry. When's the last time you drafted and thought about which you were on? Do you pick ricing cores on radiant? Do you pick gankers on dire? None of that shit matters anymore since both sides NEED to have a 50/50 winrate, even though you can't even pick sides as a player.

>>716248557
>wtf tundra doesnt even really talk while bb team is yapping away

So what? The Tundra strategy isn't good because they beat BB and then lost to Pvision.

>>716243631
not getting sent to donbass is a great motivator, who knew

>>716248802
Just surprised at the contrast between both teams

>>716249009
>Just surprised at the contrast between both teams

Oh, well, I've heard from Europeans that online gaming in Europe is like that. I think Russians are an exception. The dead silence of Tundra is just European autism.

>>716248749
what does it actually say

>>716249304
There's a Dota 2 team called Nigma.

>>716249304
Nigga

>>716245573
kez's design is awful and his voicelines are even worse
but what the fuck is that shit on the left

>>716250220
A bunny woman from the looks of it

>>716242941 (OP)
7.0 happened

>>716251304
Daily reminder that anyone who's still asshurt about 7.0 hasn't actually played the game since then and seen that everything that was wrong with it has been fixed for ages and they need to let it go

>>716252718
You retarded
Now excuse me as I pick 4 cores

>>716242941 (OP)
The worst online community of all time + blatantly rigged matchmaking system + complete disrespect of players' time

>>716252880
>no argument
Thanks for admitting I'm right!

>>716245907
>players

Always trying to reinvent the wheel and cosmetic artistic direction completely lacking direction. Can barely distinguish heroes anymore with so much random hats over them.

>>716253182
4 cores is only viable now because there's PvE farm everywhere and massive comeback potential. A chinese ricing dream come true. And it's gay.

>>716253576
>4 cores is viable

What's the last match you saw with 4 cores?

>>716253672
pos 4 weaver exists
The fuck are you on about? Have you played the fucking game?

7.07 was the beginning of the end with the introduction of Pangolier, this began the trend of the heroes with dash abilities or gap closers all over the place and the introduction of the harpoon item as well for melee carries. Change my mind.

>>716253749
>can't name a match

Nice one. You can eat my shit now, nigger. Stay in this thread while I get rid of these other ones.

>>716244102
>>716245259
>>716245612
I quit the game around the fifth or so international.
Can I get a QRD on how dogshit have things gotten?

Valve could save dota 2 by allowing you to play specific main patches.

>>716253830
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/8380698536

>>716244115
youre indian

>>716254170
and you are low iq

>>716254027
Then everyone would just play ~TI2 dota forever.

>>716254237
indians using discord reaction images with twitter image macro text are brown and stupid
you are all of those

>>716245573
>Artwork vs in-game
Every time with Leaguefags.

>>716248749
they changed the fucking map? why? that's so ass

>>716242941 (OP)
reddit won

when i played like 8 years ago the games just took too long and skill based matchmaking just forced wins and losses on you. there would be times i would troll in a game and do nothing but have a crushing win, and then others where im trying my absolute hardest but my team is only spanish speakers who just feed. nothing you do matters if you are playing for short periods of time. the game averages out over a very long period of time like poker. its only for grinders

>>716242941 (OP)
bla bla something about 7.x update.

as a secondary that has like 1k hours just because firends play this cancer, what's that about 7.0 ruining the game?
GOD how I wish my friends stopped playing this

>>716254595
It's easier to draft in solo ranked that way. It's really hard to lose a game with drafting now, unless you pick something like 3 supports.

>>716243961
Weird how big LoL still is to this day, LOL!

>>716255964
It's only going to get bigger, now that dota looks more and more like LoL.

>>716255029
Well statistically speaking, dota 2 has been in decline past 7.00 in 2016.

>>716242941 (OP)
The only real blunder they made was 7.00, which didn't kill the game, but was quite dangerous. Combining it with an engine upgrade was insanely risky too.

>>716256692
There was an engine upgrade?

>>716242941 (OP)
literally nothing? It's the best game in its genre by far

>>716247552
Every dota hero has to be the best at *something*. And they're all the best at different things. i.e. Nyx can burst a single target better than anyone. Bristle can turn and kill you just by running away. Doom cripples a single target for a decade. Ancient Apparition deletes all healing. Invoker has a spell for every situation. Dazzle keeps one nigga alive no matter what. Axe kills one nigga no matter what.
What does Kez do?
Nobody fucking knows.

>>716260748
>Every dota hero has to be the best at *something*
in theory but not in application. there's a bunch of heroes that are the same as this other hero but better or worse. and every character is losing more and more of their "thing" as the years go on

the defining moment that this game lost its soul was the patch where they lobotomized techies and transformed him into a league of legends burst mage because reddit complained

>>716243564
I heckin love Zpirit

>>716254645
Yeah, they should've left that piece of shit in dota 1 where he belonged, but reddit BEGGED

>>716260748
>Every dota hero has to be the best at *something*
This hasn't been true for like a decade, Valve ruined Dota.

>>716243564
yatoro saved the carry role from eternal brawl meta

>>716262104
omg hi redd1t!!!11!!!1

>>716242941 (OP)
I quit sometime over two years ago before they made the map bigger but sometimes get an itch to start playing again. How difficult would it be to get back into Dota now? The game looks so different now I'm not sure it's even worth the effort.

>>716263202
Honestly, not that much. You can still play turbo if you don't want to waste 45 minutes of your life.

>>716263202
it's the same game with more bloat shit tacked on. anyway 90% of the players in this game grief constantly so you'll fit right in

>>716242990
Why bother hiring employees when chatgpt can do it?

>>716254027
>>716254359
Lol you do know dota classic is a thing but no one actually wants to go back to that dusty version of the game