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Valve lures thousands of Dota cheaters into bans with fake Christmas presents as it declares 'this year is gonna be a bloodbath' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're basically suggesting that Valve turn DotA into Heroes of the Storm, a MOBA so lame it lived and died in just 7 years. Meanwhile, DotA has been going strong for nearly 20, despite the fact that anyone that's ever heard of the game knows that it's a toxic cesspool. Your "solution" to what you perceive as a problem is to make the game less fun, and that's why Valve makes money by the truckload and you write sad opinion pieces and attempt to insult people on social media.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

One, a game lasting "just" seven years is a fucking bizarre jab.

Two, 'stop pretending disagreement means I hate your favorite thing' is not an insult.

Three, if all criticism of an ongoing "toxic cesspool" lasting twenty god-damn years has you sneering in defense of the cesspool, I don't think the details of that criticism have anything to do with your response.

But sure. How dare anyone point to a problem and say 'they should fix that.' I mean, where's my billion-dollar franchise, right? It makes money so it can't be wrong.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

gg go next

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Two, 'stop pretending disagreement means I hate your favorite thing' is not an insult

I haven't touched DotA since 2014. I couldn't care less what happens to it. But you clearly do. Just in a way that nobody cares about.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

@dril:

your meltdown is worse than my melt down. you're spiraling harder than me. im barely even showing my ass compared to you.

I care about toxicity. So does Valve, apparently. And PC Gamer. The problems with this genre are newsworthy. And it's been an issue for two straight decades.

But I guess 'problems have underlying causes which change can address' is an invitation for everyone to commit the attribution fallacy and attack whatever gurning projection they'd rather be dealing with.

Meanwhile, the game's still a cesspool - in your own words - and treating the symptoms will not fix that. Maybe they should treat something else.