last night i was play with my homie (both divine 4 – 5 ) and we remember Dota 2 in his early stage (both get a key in mid 2012) Just laughing for the "good old days" but.. (maybe it was my experience) when i remember clearly, old Dota 2 was shit, (i was 3k – 4k in that time, pretty high mmr) in all games was some random dude dying in jungle, 5 dudes feeding and laghting/rage about it and 2 or 3 dudes playing pretty bad but not at feeding levels, not to mention the servers were crashing a lot and the toxic behavior was worst (curriers feeding and items missing and destroying)
Maybe I remember it as "the good old days" because at the time I didn't know how to play it right and when I fuck up, I really don't know what happened and I just laugh, the skill difference was to much and the mechanics skill made a really advantage different back then
so, old Dota in restrospective was pretty bad compared to actual Dota. may the actual dota feels more boring bc we all know the basic mechanics, its not like jump in a new experience anymore like old days but in overall experience, the old Dota was a bad game (Dota always, at least for me, was better moba experience in general compared to the others, i'm just compared the same game in different periods)
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/ugb81p/old_dota_thoughts/