I have been playing more Dota this autumn and winter than I have done for a few years prior as I found someone to Duo queue with again but it does not feel like the game is fun anymore, it isnt rewarding, its not challenging…
You either get a bunch of Cyrillic speakers that refuse to speak English or you get an account buyer, or they counterpick themselves and there isn't even a game to be played… Or your enemies pick ONLY meta heroes (with a balance patch WAAAAAY overdue), or they have smurfs that pick abusive heroes that aren't meant for public games and are useless in Pro play but still exist to plague the community (Tinker, Lone Druid, Arc Warden, Clinkz, Monkey King etc)…
I report SOOOOO many smurfs every time I play a few games of dota, they have 400 games played but are already at Legend 5 and STOMPING games like they've been playing dota for over a decade but none seem to get banned, I never get a notification that they've taken action…
I have never felt I have this little impact in my games as these last few months of Dota and tbh I have no idea why ANYONE considers it fun anymore when the matchmaking is this fucked up… Even with 10.000 of the seemingly useless conduct score…
Anyone else feel the same or do you still think most of your games are "good games" (Not talking about wins or losses, but balanced and fun games)…
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/105s4al/is_dota_worth_playing_eu_legend_perspective/