When Defense of the Ancients originally came out, it was a mod for Warcraft 3, but gained a significant number of fans. Soon after, the employees at Valve were very interested in the mod, and the overall concept of teamwork within the game intrigued them greatly. They thus asked IceFrog, one of the main developers of the mod of his future plans for the mod and whether he was interested in making a sequel, in which to our benefit, he said yes. Now it’s 2013 and Dota 2 is by far the most played title on Steam, and it can best be described as “a frustrating yet very gratifying strategic experience”.
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Valve has spoken out forcefully against smurfing in Dota 2 after banning more than 90,000 accounts - and targeting their owners.
Pardon my ignorance for never having played this, but why even have the ability to create multiple guest accounts? It seems if there is only one account per player then it would eliminate this smurfing issue.
Probably to get new players hooked on the addictive gameplay loop, more people playing = statistically more people buying battle passes.
Why would seasoned players want to play with lower skill players anyway? Just to owned them? They’re n00bs, what’s the fun in that?
It’s like on COD where they do bad on purpose for a few rounds, to then be place with with bad players to then dominate.
This is human nature. I know people who do this in Dota2, CoD and other multiplayer games. They enjoy the dopamine rush that winning generates.
Following the Dota 2 update that increased the size of the map by 40%, I asked League of Legends EP Jeremy Lee if we can expect similar things for LoL.
