it genuinely hurts seeing the state of Dota right now

I'm generally a pretty optimistic person and have thoroughly enjoyed playing Dota for these 8+ years.

However, Valve's mismanagement of the game over the past year or so is downright depressing as someone who is passionate about the beauty of the game.

There are bugs galore. Several Meta heroes are good BECAUSE of these bugs. It does NOT feel good to lose because of this. It doesn't feel like you're playing this beautiful and super complicated version of chess – more so that you just lost to developer laziness. It takes you out of the game completely. I swear every time I open this sub there's some new shitty bug. Nightstalker can eat your allies' fucking couriers? Are you kidding me?

Every single game is a combo of 5-10 completely obnoxious heroes. The meta has been insanely stale for almost a year at this point.

DPC has some serious format issues. Remember Valve completely mishandling the Major back in February? Hearing Sumail imply that it would be better for Dota to die than continue like this was so sad.

True Sight is months late.

Smurfs and account buyers destroy game quality all over the place, especially in high Divine / low to mid immortal.

Seeing a game that has so much beauty and potential get zero upkeep, marketing or basic PR just hurts so bad. ESPECIALLY when this game pays tens of millions to its pro players annually. It's completely ridiculous and unacceptable. The future that Dota COULD have if it got some basic TLC is so exciting.

Imagine if Dota had a good pipeline for integrating new players. They could hire charismatic top 1000 players to create in-game instruction that gives them a solid Dota foundation – particularly with regards to strategy. Stop matching new players against players / parties with thousands of hours. Crack down on smurfs and griefers.

Imagine if Dota had frequent updates to keep the game polished and keep people excited about the game. Frequently fix bugs, improve performance and introduce new events.

For the love of God make Dota + a good experience.

Imagine if Dota had actual marketing – you know, like other multi billion dollar ips? Hire content creators to produce content about upcoming features, heroes and changes. Developer livestreams. Highlights reels for the DPC. Regular ranked and DPC seasons with content to celebrate new seasons of each. Hero spotlights.

So much potential there. I hope we get that version of Dota instead of a slow descent into the grave