Dota 2 - Three Spirits Update - Page 8

On November 14 2013 19:44 Lavitage2 wrote:


Not an option. I'm picky about who I play with, and quickly leave games where I'm not feeling my team. I'll never stop doing this.

Ideally valve would remove LPQ for abandoning games, and let people who don't feel like finishing their current game simply leave and find a new one, you know, like every other online multiplayer game they've made before this. That doesn't seem to be a plan for the forseeable future though, so I have no option but to use workarounds like mass smurfing.

On November 14 2013 19:44 Lavitage2 wrote:


Not an option. I'm picky about who I play with, and quickly leave games where I'm not feeling my team. I'll never stop doing this.

Ideally valve would remove LPQ for abandoning games, and let people who don't feel like finishing their current game simply leave and find a new one, you know, like every other online multiplayer game they've made before this. That doesn't seem to be a plan for the forseeable future though, so I have no option but to use workarounds like mass smurfing.

On November 14 2013 19:50 Kabras wrote:

so you're entitled to ruin 4 people's game and let them get def loss because you're not feeling your team? if you wanna feel your team don't solo queue, it's that easy. i think you're much better off playing 1v1 games where you're the only one who gets a loss when you leave.

On November 14 2013 19:44 Lavitage2 wrote:


Not an option. I'm picky about who I play with, and quickly leave games where I'm not feeling my team. I'll never stop doing this.

Ideally valve would remove LPQ for abandoning games, and let people who don't feel like finishing their current game simply leave and find a new one, you know, like every other online multiplayer game they've made before this. That doesn't seem to be a plan for the forseeable future though, so I have no option but to use workarounds like mass smurfing.

On November 14 2013 19:44 Lavitage2 wrote:


Not an option. I'm picky about who I play with, and quickly leave games where I'm not feeling my team. I'll never stop doing this.

Ideally valve would remove LPQ for abandoning games, and let people who don't feel like finishing their current game simply leave and find a new one, you know, like every other online multiplayer game they've made before this. That doesn't seem to be a plan for the forseeable future though, so I have no option but to use workarounds like mass smurfing.

On November 14 2013 19:44 Lavitage2 wrote:


Not an option. I'm picky about who I play with, and quickly leave games where I'm not feeling my team. I'll never stop doing this.

Ideally valve would remove LPQ for abandoning games, and let people who don't feel like finishing their current game simply leave and find a new one, you know, like every other online multiplayer game they've made before this. That doesn't seem to be a plan for the forseeable future though, so I have no option but to use workarounds like mass smurfing.

On November 14 2013 19:54 Lavitage2 wrote:


A lot of pub games result in 1 team getting way ahead in the first 10 minutes, and then the rest of the game is just the members of the losing team bickering while making sure to get exp every 5 minutes. No one likes playing these games to completion except for a handful of players who want to be able to get 6 slotted and fountain camp with their full build, and I don't give a fuck how these players feel. If I sense that a game is headed in that direction, why should I be forced to stay?

On November 14 2013 19:54 Lavitage2 wrote:


A lot of pub games result in 1 team getting way ahead in the first 10 minutes, and then the rest of the game is just the members of the losing team bickering while making sure to get exp every 5 minutes. No one likes playing these games to completion except for a handful of players who want to be able to get 6 slotted and fountain camp with their full build, and I don't give a fuck how these players feel. If I sense that a game is headed in that direction, why should I be forced to stay?

On November 14 2013 17:11 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
Blizzard and Riot should feel ashamed.

On November 14 2013 20:11 Lavitage2 wrote:
I can damn sure complain about it though

On November 14 2013 20:11 Lavitage2 wrote:
The rest of my team is free to try to engineer a comeback if they're stubborn enough to really want one. The 4 of them can keep on playing, and micro the hero I left behind. They can hope for all the throws they want, but I'm not going to collaborate with them to play for some hail mary win when at least one of my teammates is a cunt that I'd rather see take an L. I'm going to move on to the next team ASAP and hope they're a better bunch, because as frustrating as a horrible team is, I'd say the ratio in high ELO pub games is something like 70-30 in favor of bearable teams.

I keep playing dota because I enjoy the experience more often than not, so I'm not going to just quit because valve decided to add more busywork to getting around the shit teams. I can damn sure complain about it though, because valve's obsession with trying to make every group of 5 strangers get along for 40+ minutes is the worst thing about the game atm.

In my experience, whenever I leave a terrible game at the 5-10 minute mark then check the replay, the rest of my team files out within the next minute, so I don't even buy into this idea that everyone likes comebacks and that leaving prematurely is "ruining the game" for them - these people are out of the game as soon as they see the opportunity, they just don't have my level of tech savvy when it comes to avoiding valve's automated punishments, so they're more skittish about being the first to leave.