Is Dota 2 dead?

I know i will most likely get flamed for this, but generally I have really enjoyed Dota 2 in the past. Now i don't hear about it at all. Like i know valve never advartises their awesome games, but still... Should i get back to it after years of league slop?

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I have honestly never seen any discussion about this game. I assume it's a real game and it's really popular, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out it's fake.

League kneecapped it to take the crown when assfaggots were all the rage but it still survived
Fortnite then came around and killed league(although riot keeps it on life support with their infinite china money) and dota is still around
extraction slop and tactical shooters did to fortnite what it did to league and epic keeps it alive with unreal engine money memes and shitty gamemodes but dota is still around
Dota will always be around its an unkillable game

Oh its real, but at the same time (i know valve is shit at marketing their games) why dafuq dont i see anything about this game anywhere

Like you said anon, almost like its fake

I do remember it being awesome though

Dota added a bunch of stupid horseshit, and the balance philosophy right now is that of "let's just rotate things around solely for the sake of change itself, not because there's any issue with it" which is supremely gay.
That said, it's still the best assfaggots by a fucking mile. It's incredible how well league of legends poisoned that well.

dota died back in 2014 when they release 6.82 and 3 that added memeback to the game unblancing the whole thing and then they double down with 6.84. What you have now is a brawlfest where there's no strategy and every game plays the same

The NPCs will tell you Dota 2 is dead, but it's the 2nd most played game on Steam.

steamcharts.com/

There's also a Dota 2 tournament happening all the time. The current one is Dreamleague.
The game isn't dead at all, and the people of Anon Babble are just way too stupid for the game.

youtube.com/live/B4qTmXo_A3g?si=dnYTGNZc7cW64nBz

Take anywhere from 40m to 1h+ to finish a single match

Guess why people don't discuss on Anon Babble.

“Played” on steam

Third worlders botting to RWT == players

Guess why people don't discuss on Anon Babble.

Because they don't play it? I played Dota 2 for a very long time, and nobody is playing it 24/7. That means a discussion is possible if people actually played it.

Check Anon Babble you stupid dork.

Thanks for the info anon

Might redownload it and get back into it. The truth is i left Dota 2 years ago because :
a) all my faggot friends played leagued
b) the lore seemed more streamlined and unique

But after watching arcane season 2 and seeing the recent game changes (they turned my boy Viktor into some magetroon) i desperately need a moba that isnt full of tumblr niggerfaggots that came in after watching that fkn show

Might redownload it and get back into it.

I hope you're able to find a match. I don't play Dota 2 much anymore because it's so hard to find a match. I'll queue, wait 8 minutes or some shit and then I just quit. I do watch Dota 2, and I can still talk to people about the game.

This, people blame 7.0 for the death of the game but the comeback gold and xp changes are really what ruined it

With valve selling off TI, yeah

I did

And I cant fkn find it!!

Nobody knows anything!?!!

So it really is all over huh

Fuuuuuck

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So it really is all over huh

No, and it may just be a problem with my region. I play on the Australia region, and I also play Ranked. If I queue for Southeast Asia, it's much faster. I wish ping wasn't a thing and everyone could play with each other regardless of country.

A lot of faggotry

for nearly two years, patches are incredible boring. Despite they expand the map and give some new gay objectives its still incredible stale. Even neutral items are gay.
Pro scene is incredible boring with shut-in pro players and boring casters. Two last TIs were boring as fuck.

people who say this never really played dota or atleast never played it at a level where you needed to know how to play
game is fine the player base just grewup and new gamers played different things

No it's not dead it still hits 600-800k peaks depending on the month and if new shit is in. Anyone saying otherwise is a troon. The game has the current best iteration of maps ever for it. The neutral item rotation is ok the innate skill system was a nice change in pace but some fags hate it because they cannot read and don't want multiple playstyles per character. All in all modern dota is good I think the game still peaked when they first added neutrals because 100 items flooding the pool made shit fun and chaotic.

I'm playing it from time to time but I'm herald and I have no clue where to learn stuff, Youtube "guides" are total slop

I'm herald and I have no clue where to learn stuff

Do you watch pro matches? It's actually a great way to learn, as long as you try the stuff you see. Even just knowing what items to buy is a big deal.

No I don't like much esport , but yes it's a good idea actually I should do that

is <million players online at any moment> game dead?

Man gotta hate normalfags, my favorite fighting game struggles to reach a hundred players and this fag right here is complaining with his mouth full (of cum).

I'll give an example of learning from a pro match. Paravision is the best team, and Noone is playing Storm right here. You can just watch the match and see what items he buys. Make sure you look at what order he buys them in too.

youtu.be/UiKpMC_3wJE?si=3mAjxi3Ls-e2AD9r&t=810

If you watch even for a moment, you can see his first item is Soul Ring. That's how you learn.

Dota isn't fun unless you're playing a 5-stack with friends. It takes too long to play with random retards. Just download Heroes of the Storm and paly 15 minute ARAMs.

Woops. His first item is actually Bottle, and Soul Ring is item 2.

dota2 is inconsistent, full of rng, and gay
Heroes of the Storm is the whitest game there is.

Listen here nigger

I understand what you mean, but learning how to play a moba is a little harder then jumping into a match button mashing

Takes blood , sweat, tears and a ton of G fuel

but learning how to play a moba is a little harder then jumping into a match button mashing

Click ranked
Click play
Play
really not hard.

i hate liniggers so much try and play the cute and funny coffin girl and she does everything i can better and with 90% less effort.

Does that mean you're a Dota expert? If I said Panda was good against TB, would you know what I mean?

HOTS has by far the most braindead playerbase ive ever seen How do you have a 1500+ lvl account and dont even understand the basics of nearly every hero you play. Not to mention the mental fragility that makes the worst mid or feed slav/peruvian look like a stoic.

Pandas can't get tuberculosis

Thanks for the attempt at comedy. I assume nobody is laughing in the 95% auto filtered section, and that's why you're posting in a thread for a game you know nothing about. That's the conclusion I've drawn. Just shitskin NPC things I guess. Reply after the hide and assume the statistic is a joke.

holy seethe

Heroes of the storm

*Looks inside

Blizzard

Nah i would rather die for Israel then give those bastards any money or support

Like any other game around long enough, they start only listening to redditor opinions, who float the most retarded ideas around and are never happy when those changes go live, because they cannot differentiate retarded meme ideas that are fun to joke about, and ones that actually make the game better.

Like other comp games, it's just become more difficult to fuck around and get away with it because the playerbase just learns more over time and the mechanics punish 'fun'.

No, he is right

I wish you nothing but sadness and rot in life

May your children die of cancer and may your wife develop Chlamydia on a scale unseen to anyone in this realm

The joke attempt was kinda funny though

Dota is ass only redditors play it

hots is interesting in that it was the side project created by the last few good people at blizzard. It was then killed by modern blizzard chasing an esport scene before they put it on life support.
It feels like a time capsule of how blizzard used to be

Finding games takes longer then I'd like but maybe everyone is playing Turbo?

no but its on the way out, its extremely harsh towards new players, most of the current ones are old fags wich will stop eventually

It was a good reminder of why I liked Blizzard games but it was doomed because Blizzard is fucking retarded. It's too bad, maybe one day they'll realize the potential and bring it back.

no you retard ranked exists for balanced games
nothing i said was wrong retard

trash ruined by redditors and valve just being incompetent
10+ years and valve has only made one successful game (HL VR), everything else failed.

cs2

it's just an engine update with some remade maps and lil extra bits
it's less of a new game than ow2

all real chads are waiting for HoNR, open beta coming this fall

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maybe everyone is playing Turbo?

Naw, I think most players are just on certain regions. Southeast Asia has fast queues, and I'm sure Russia has lots of players too (because their pros are the best).

its extremely harsh towards new players

It is, but it's no different to something like fighting games. Fighting games are even more dead because those are 1v1, and Dota has four people fighting with you who can make up for whatever you lack.