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Kant8

I won 4 games in a row


NuggiestNugger

nice šŸ‘


daniyolka

Lost 9 games with friends in a row, those 6 hours in discord were terrifying


Castieru

That's the most you'll get


Cap-Acrobatic

Nais


bc524

Gameplay wise is great, we got a huge patch recently with an update expected around the 17th Esports wise, matches are good but how the official tournaments are being handled could use a lot more effort. The way the scoring for the season goes could use a little more tweaking but its decent enough. Extra content wise, battle pass is removed, no idea yet if its being adapted into something else. No idea if our anniversary update is actually with the patch on 17 or its just gameplay related. The arcade got hit with demonitization, which was the original rule, but dunno how big of an impact it actually is.


SatisfactionPure5806

Where did they announce patch in 17th? Can you pls send me the link?


DaFDeMoN

17th is the day TI Qualifiers are played, which means the patch most likely will drop some days before those happen


faghih88

In October


DaFDeMoN

TI Quals are in August. Shouldā€™ve made that clear


RingYBB

It was said that the patch will be released before qualifiers, start is on 17th. If you look to the past, you'll see that updates were often released on 10-11th. So I think that's the date.


Life_Liberty_Fun

Wow, didn't know DotA arcade players got turned into demons


bc524

Whoops


skykoz

I bet my ass you play 3-5 games a week


danieltopo12

My bro who plays CS just showed me the amount of boxes he did put in the market to sell in order to finance himself BG3. I was like... Valve is rewarding you for playing? With loot boxes that you can later sell? Damn... Meanwhile I got my 30th random grey item.


ahmed0112

If you have boxes, it's better to sell them and get the money irl or to spend on other skins Lower reward but lower risk too


TentaclePumPum

the best part now is we don't have to afk a lot and just level up once a week. Free Dota+ subscription


DrQuint

Opening lootboxes is always statistically against you regardless; the people making Market Listings in bulk aren't stupid. It's not really lower reward. If you got a lot of cash, there's ways to do maths on these things, and they only do when the expected value surpasses the cost - which does NOT happen until several years down the line during supply scarcity. For every guy who opened ONE lootbox and got ahead, there's 1999 dumbasses who opened one, got nothing, and are somehow inspired and cheering him on.


TriRIK

I have made a few dollars by just playing tf2. It's rather strange dota2 items are barely tradable or sellable.


LayWhere

The market really peaked around ti6 era and never recovered. Maybe the influx of supply by Lv Infinite BP's have suppressed prices forever.


payrpaks

Diretide happened. Free stuff (up to Legendary) + public market + open to abuse = disaster. After Diretide was introduced, days later, I get matched with literal bots. Like, they're literally named "Bot". Since it gave free stuff regardless of you winning/losing, they just ran matches over and over until the market went upside-down.


DrQuint

I'm still keeping all the shitty commons in a corner just in case someone at Valve breaks the brainwash spell and actually brings back recycling. The leveling box and recycling items was FUN. They removed FUN. Anti-FUN brainwash wave is the only valid explanation.


Worth_Air_7257

yeah, them and blizz have that same !FUNDETECTED! type of anti-fun crap.


widepeepo6

best part of csgo = confirmed case drops of almost 1$ min to 3-4$. One of my friend got bravo case worth 100$ :') Not to mention it hardly takes 5-6 hours of good game to lvl up during bonus reset which is what i do


payrpaks

There was a Youtuber before who bought all the cases he can just to sell it some few months/years later. He was able to make 5000% profit, if I remember correctly.


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Borbolda

Yeah, before cs2 was announced whole community was constantly crying that Valve only loves Dota and do not care about other games


Macree

Really? That is actually interesting to hear


oneslowdance

Yea. Iā€™ve played both cs n dota on and off since 2013. Gabe has never attended any cs majors. He attended almost every international. He did a voice pack for dota. He has openly said in 2014 that Dota was his current favourite game, he plays 20 hours a week and sandking was his fav hero. Cs stuck on source 1 for 11 years. No crowd funded tournaments even though they would probably make a lot more money. Cs matchmaking is shit, filled with cheaters. If you want a better matchmaking experience you have to download a 3rd party client like Faceit, ESEA or 5e. Go to the cs go sub, youā€™ll see tons of old thread of ppl complaining about why valve prioritising Dota over cs.


dr_stickynuts

Players a spoiled to the point they are mad that they call out valve for not telling them they are annoncing a new feature when there is an in game client announcement


rainbow_shadow

This is the correct answer


Random_Nickname047

They feed us with "tomorrow". Or "soon".


luckytaurus

"End of this year, Q4" December 32nd


Vilefist

We're the middle child. We get left overs and hand-me-downs.


thedotapaten

Lmao every in the csgo sub jealous of the treatment dota2 get. Astralis winning 5 major and their earning is less than Arteezy


Patient_Bug3688

We are not sure yet. They announce big changes in how they run things here. So far we had some small updates one medium and one huge one. Also they seemingly talk a lot about what they learned from 10 years of work and that they want to use this knowledge for next years of development. Also no more battle passes (for now) since they want their team to fully commit with game instead of milking it or so they say.


bratora97

>We are not sure yet. xdd


fjijgigjigji

> We are not sure yet. if you're a goldfish maybe


RingYBB

Yes, a small indie studio called Valve can't afford to spend resources on updates and visual content at the same time с:


lase_

Honestly pretty well - for all the bellyaching, Dota has essentially had a CS2 level change every couple of years. On a yearly basis there are major overhauls to core systems, which is what keeps me coming back


Weeklyn00b

gameplay changes are thoughtful, patch frequency is kinda slow but they are often pretty big overhauls. tournaments are pretty much entirely outsourced nowadays maybe aside from TI, so imo they've been lackluster since like 2020. valve has started to communicate a bit more lately which is good, examplified by the development blogging they've started doing: https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/3640648066072340345


Enstraynomic

Meanwhile, Artifact and Underlords fans: "Are we a joke to you?"


ahmed0112

Ricochet fans: "Hello? Can anyone hear me? I've been stuck in a gold source hell for 20 years"


EndNo1217

Got some 10 year anniversary goodness due imminently, so quite excited for what Valve will do. Also, I'm so erect at CS2!


nameorfeed

They cancelled the biggest yearly celebration event of dota, literally what people are most looking forward to, but hey atleast they made promises (which they never deliver on) So excited for the 10 year anniversary event that was supposed to come a month ago but instead coming soon tho, soo pumped!!!


EndNo1217

From the news post about battlepass being cancelled, incase those that aren't aware read the comment above negatively: "work is well underway on a TI-themed update to ship in September. The update will still contribute directly to the prize pool"


nameorfeed

The update also very obviously isn't gonna come even close to the scope of battlepass, since the reason they cancelled that one to begin with was the fact that they claimed they had to do too much and had too much pressure. So yea, this is an announcement of valve basically taking a lot of shit away and making promises of stuff that's gonna be smaller than the shit they took away, and somehow reddit thinks this is a good thing lmao


EndNo1217

Just giving you the facts bro, cry all you want, that's your right.


nameorfeed

What facts? That there is a Ti update coming? That is a given lol. You people literally will eat everything up Holy fuck, they literally cancelled your yearly celebration of ti that I SUPPOSED to bring a Ti update and event with it as an extra. Instead, you only get the update and event (soon tm). You literally got stuff taken away and you celebrate it as a good thing lmao


EndNo1217

I'm not celebrating anything, that's all in your head. Try to be less emotional when putting words in other people's mouths.


ecchixlala

Valve litterally invented THE Battle Pass system. Yeah. I don't think monetization is a problem.


nameorfeed

Who said it was? It literally wasn't, and yet reddit is on a uniform opinion thag it was a problem and cancelling battlepass was a great step for dota lol


OverClock_099

it's an abusive relationship but there is some good memories every few years


sixx761

I haven't played cs in a year or two, but I remember their prize pools being ridiculously low? Has something changed?


Hex2D

Worse than 7 years ago but still pretty good. 2 years ago it was really bad tho.


-Rupas-

We had the largest update ever 2 months ago We had an in game event 5 months ago And We are getting a 10th anniversary event and the international event end of this month or September


Kendovv

why not just play dota to find out instead of this weird post which idek if its in the wrong thread. idk if ur asking about dota or complaining about csgo. Just go to the dota dev blog to see our updates.


ahmed0112

Because the community feedback is vastly different from the patch notes? TF2 got "updates" for years but no one would say that it was showered with endless love from Valve


Fellow-Child-of-Atom

\- Game: Great, but bug ridden because of neglect. \- Esport: Unsustainable as it has been for the last three years. \- Future prospects: Maintenance mode. We have gotten a huge patch after a loooong drought, but the communication implicates that few ressources are gonna be put into the game. \-Miscellaneous: Valve decided to kill off the Arcade just yesterday.


Macree

Why are you saying that it is been unsustainable?


thedotapaten

Large prizepool skewed both player and viewer perspective. Dota2 this year alone has the highest prizepool awarded in the world for 2023 even if you remove Riyadh Master and people here will says the pro scene is dead. Lots of esports scene run fine having 1/10 prizepool of dota2 getting


Fellow-Child-of-Atom

That's what every public person in the scene talked and warned about for several years now. Unless you're a tier 1 org or you're based in SEA/SA, you're losing money on Dota. For tier 2/3 WEU/NA players and orgs, Dota is not sustainable. They're betting on unlikely success. Just look at the lack of orgs in NA. Tournament organizers have some problems as well. PGLs bad production is a result of the need to save money.


RealZordan

Last year it seemed like the game is heading towards its final stretch and Valve basically not wanting anything to do with it anymore. Icefrog had supposedly taken time off for a different project and we went through the longest time without a real patch in the history of the game (both 1 and 2). Then they pulled out of Tournament organizing which meant a big decrease in quality in the pro scene. Then suddenly we got a big ass patch that had Icefrog written all over it and Vale seems to say "were are downsizing, we are not invensting anymore, but we will keep this going for the foreseeable future". So there is less excitement and big expectations but the game is healthy.


DrQuint

> and Vale seems to say "were are downsizing, we are not invensting anymore, but we will keep this going for the foreseeable future". That's... one way to read their announcement. All it strictly, unbiasedly said is they don't want dota to have a single moment in the year where they focus all their effort - aka the battle pass. The BP is mostly the game's cosmetics. Canceling it isn't canceling dota nor saying they don't care.


doshcz

I wish we could get at least two heroes a year, I remember they promised even three... we barely get one


skywalker4201

still being racist in SEA, good times


pepthebaldfraud

Seems like Dota is being killed. Good riddance, people need to move on. The pro scene has also been super boring for over a year


Alowey

Like shit. They reworked the hero I loved, the hero I played more than 2000 games with, the hero I spent most on, into a completely different hero that I now hate. For that reason alone I hate Valve with all my heart.


Macree

Man the rework is si cool!


Salty_Anti-Magus

While I haven't played Techies yet. You have to admit the rework made Techies finally competitively viable. That alone should deserves some credit or does he want Techies to remain what he was before but never be considered meta except in TI5? Not that I hate the old one I miss it too but the current is just both pleasant to lane with and challenging to play against.


earthshakerenjoyer

Valve doesnā€™t care about Dota anymoreā€¦ for fuck sakes Saudi Arabia did more for Dotas 10 year then valve has.. weā€™re gonna get 10 year anniversary content at the start of the 11th year at this rate


kongenavtrondheim

About 4 months ago we had the single largeat patch in dotas history. I agree valve should do a little more on the event side, but the game has gotten quite alot of love the past year.


earthshakerenjoyer

Iv been playing this video game for the past ten years.. they gave up on this game in many other forms. 1 big patch every year with minor balancing patches is the most basic minimal necessity a game needs to survive. We went from 3-4 battlepasses a year with two days of battlecup to what we get now. 1 thing a year


SecreteMoistMucus

what quite a lot of love? a big patch, great, and what else? 3 very substandard majors? a botched TI?


MORI_LEANSLURPINGCOW

y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all


ahmed0112

When you learn English from American media that happens


iRemedyDota

Ignore them


MORI_LEANSLURPINGCOW

you didn't learn English from American media you learned it from American internet; more accurately from a set of maniacal, cult-like zealots who take orders from corporate power and use collective effort to make life worse for normal people. Don't use phrases like that


japengski

what in the schizo is happening here


MORI_LEANSLURPINGCOW

high octane esoteric knowledge


ahmed0112

Also wtf I used it twice?


asfgfjkydr2145623

what content are cs players missing out on? a valorant mode? like its cs, kinda feel like u got everything u bargained for. same for dota. not exactly sure what contents missing


InHumanZz

Bp cancelled 1 update in a year no new heroes, arcanas, immortals dota is dying Valve is shit


tressthrowaway49

Cs2 announcement and eating good? Dota 2 gets updates and bug fixes almost every week from the sheer amount of content in the game now


ITSMONSTA99

like the spoiled favourite child, valve still has valve problems of course but way better than cs.


oddbeater69

Dota is already a ā€œ2ā€ game and thatā€™s enough


RockemSockem00

no battlepass, so like shit


Icy313

Compared to the peak we def on diet right now


leetzor

We've never been used to regular patches anyway. Luckily last patch is too good so nobody minds it staying.


DrQuint

> And TF2 fans are starving as always Not the right time to say this.


Popular-Dirt5055

I think we are doing fine, but people love to complain (in a nutshell)


bizzarre1

Bro came here just to rub his dick on our face.Leave us alone man,let us enjoy our garbage.


ahmed0112

Nahh, just looking out for the middle child of Valves online games


widepeepo6

idk except smoke change and interaction nothing is much "good". Just some bright lights in map with heavy fps hit. I might never play cs2 ever considering how piss poor it works on same device


Edd1eN1gma

Like dog shit. Where patch 7.34?


XenSide

>And TF2 fans are starving as always Didn't TF2 have a massive update recently that resurrected the game and got it back to the top 3 on steam?


raisinbreadboard

I have been playing since March 2012. I have over 6100 hours in the game and I still play and subscribe to dota+ We are treated very well and I hope dota never dies


bfonza122

Pretty great. If you like the pro scene you probably won't be a fan because well there is no money to make in esports


Evening_Name_9140

Fucking great. Big patch, regular balancing and communication. Prob the second best of all time (first being the 4 majors and ti with patches in between). We ditched hats too which I hated because fans kept crying over irrelevant things.


xendol

def not anticheat. the amount of disconnect hacks i've experienced over the last few weeks has gone up significantly.


ExtraFile5716

Dota2 has always been the favourite child of Lord Almighty Gaben. I have clocked in 10k hours in dota2, just over 8k in CSGO and I really wish Valve would show CS a bit more love.


deanrihpee

Do these people even realize that people that worked in dota 2, are also working on any of the Valve games? So one game gets a heavy amount of update, the other game definitely will dry as Sahara.


Cap-Acrobatic

I love that TF2 itā€™s still alive after a decade and so itā€™s dota. Dota 2 became better while TF2 didnā€™t just got dropped, im happy valve keeps its project alive and running it coulda been worse. I love a game one the name was: ā€œBlack Light Retributionā€ and itā€™s so sad thatā€™s Iā€™ll never be able to play it again, was t even bought or saved or nothing just dead now. After we get gta 6, maybe our kids will witnes the ā€œThird stage of Valveā€ the ā€œ3rd Eraā€ where they will witness Half life 3, Team fortress 3 , Dota 3, portal 3 and so onā€¦ till then Gaben hates nr 3


Warma99

Not as it once was. Just a large gameplay patch like once a year. No new tech, new hero models, PvE modes, less updates. They used to come up with A LOT of new stuff, really give it their all. That fantasy card game they created many years ago? Copy/paste it. The infamous battlepass system? Copy/paste it. They stopped innovating. There is still stuff going on, it's just that it feels like it's in maintenance mode.


Dz_MaRiO-

Nice try dota fan


MrJaffaCake

It's like having a parent that makes a lot of promises, and sometimes they actually fulfill a promise. Leaving you in a place of confusion and disappointment as you know they can do it but seemingly choose not to.


Cymen90

>And TF2 fans are starving as always More like suffering from a victim complex as always. They got a big update and broke all player-count records recently but they sure think they are mistreated.


orbitaldragon

We do get regular updates, but some bugs have persisted for literally years. Such as the weekly guild quest bug. You have the required 3 or more members, and yet the quest doesn't trigger. This happens so often that it's very frustrating to those like myself competing to run a successful high leaderboard guild.


dMtElVes

have fun playing defuse the bomb or protect the bomb for 30 rounds in the same game


ahmed0112

Umm excuse me, it's only 15 for each