Dota 2 probably has the most vile player base next to Call of Duty and I can say that now because I’ve been exposed to it a lot recently. In some way, I get it. When there is a noob on your team, the chances of you winning goes down and you can get angry at guys running straight for the Ancient before the creeps even spawn in. But man, calm it down a little. There’s only so many degrading things you can say to a person and trying to beat your personal best in every game isn’t going to do you much good. After a while it corrupts you. Makes you this resentful human being with no compassion left that only exists to get a GODLIKE.
Now here is a feel good story from the pits of the Dota 2 cesspit. Here we have a veteran player called Max Rectumstein. According to his Steam profile, he has played over 5000 hours of Dota 2 and has quote “the best fucking drops you can get, yo”. Because he has played so long, he resents noobs like nobody else because he has forgotten what it feels like to be in a game that you just started playing. That moment of his life is now long gone. He can’t remember the first time he accidentally bought six Iron Branches thinking it was a good idea.
Max plays Dota almost every waking second that he can get. He dropped out of college and freeloads off his parents because he could not handle staying away from Bot lane for long. During these psychotic levels of playtime. he would constantly be in chat berating anybody that doesn’t use a perfect build. Once a player accidentally didn’t put the courier down and he screamed for almost the entirety of the match. The cops got called once because he was screaming at a player that used “that fucking noob champ Pudge”. He even stopped saying GG at the end.
But then one day something extraordinary happened. A new player said in chat “what’s a gud build for Pugna?” and Max did something very strange for a veteran Dota player. He helped him out. At the time he didn’t even realize he did, but once he hit enter on the chat, his eyes went wide and he stared blankly at the screen. This was the first time he was compassionate towards another human being in years. He didn’t quite know what to do, but he still went 34-2 in the match. In post-game, the noob invited him on Steam, trying to get tips from Max.
Max, still in shock, answered all of his questions. He tried asking the noob if he wants to play and he said “nah, gotta go out with gf, later tho”. Max had a girlfriend once. She was beautiful, smart, caring, but he threw her away because, according to him, “mid needs me more than you do”. This was years ago and he reminisced about those times. His love life was non-existent now because of his resentfulness. He talked to a girl once since he started to play Dota and all he did was shout at her for not rushing Top.
He laid in his bed, staring at the basement ceiling for hours and then started to re-evaluate his life. The next day he tearfully went on his Steam removed his entire account. All of his items, immense playtime and 2 friends were wiped out completely. He went back to university and even though it took some time to adjust, he did it in the end. He even started having a social life again and his dad didn’t call him worthless every time he sat down for meatloaf.
The success story of this young man is enough to make you want to stop being an asshole on Dota. Maybe when a noob doesn’t choose the right build, help him out. Maybe when somebody steals your last hits you don’t call them a faggot. We can all be better people in this three lane world.
Bloodseeker is still OP as fuck though.
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