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I spend a lot of time reading this sub but rarely participate.

It’s insane to me how much shit this sub talks on the game, the devs, and valve.

I’ve been playing for coming up on 20 years now (yes I’m old) and this game can still be played daily without getting boring.

It gets changed constantly, new hero releases, map updates, items added, new mechanics introduced, but most of all tweaking the meta.

I cannot imagine how difficult it is to make changes to heroes constantly while still maintaining a mostly balanced game. Thinking about the amount of hours spent testing and tweaking and scrapping and starting over new and old ideas is mind boggling to me. They do this on over 100 heroes.

All that and they keep the game itself ever evolving and interesting. There have been very few times in the 20 years I’ve played the game felt stale or redundant.

The bug fix timing is incredible. Yes there are small barely significant bugs in corner cases that get left in for a while, but anything slightly significant gets dealt with usually within days, and if it’s truly game breaking within hours.

This dev team does such a good job keeping this game in working order, mostly in the quiet background and you all say things like:

“Small indie company”
“Valve doesn’t give a shit about this game”

Anyone who defends the game gets the responses:

“Stop defending the giant corporation”
“It’s a free game so we can’t complain”

I’m not saying you can’t complain, but the amount you do in comparison to the amount that the team gets the respect I believe they deserve is insane.

This “free game” gets more maintenance than pretty much any game I’ve played, including most with monthly subscriptions. There are a handful of games ever that have kept this kind of level of upkeep. Whether or it’s it’s free has no effect in that ranking.

All that and on top of it they are constantly working cosmetics which in itself is an incredibly large task.

I know this is a wall of text and will likely get downvoted or ignored but I wanted to get this off my chest.