This is gonna be a rant but I've been playing dota on and off again since 2014, dota is a game like no other, a game that can achieve perfection when played right but sadly this perfection is very rare and the experience mostly gonna be toxic, allow me to elaborate: back in 2014 i used to be in highschool so i had all the free time in the world to play dota, which means that no matter how toxic the experience i still have time to find that one good match that captures the essense of the game, so if i played 5 matches a day and 4 of them were bad, I'd still consider it a win.. but that is not the case anymore since im a full grown adult now i can hardly play two matches a day and when u keep getting matched with toxic people today u start to wonder if its really worth trying? U know just today i started a normal match everything was going good and i went to jungle i accidentally picked up a broom for melee heroes i didnt need , i had it on me for 2inutes only and sent it to base, this player comes into my jungle , start bloocking camps, feeding and spamming ruining the game and when we lost he invited me to party i accepted to see what he wants and he says nice broom handle you got, are you happy now? This was my breaking point i never wanted to quit so hard in my life
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/zm1j2m/i_almost_quit_today_if_it_wasnt_for_the_money_i/