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I have been playing since 2011, immortal support, mostly play with the same group of friends now. And the more I play as a stack the more I feel like matchmaking doesn’t treat dota as a team game at all

I think there is a couple of things that seem really easy to add:

a tag when you queue. something like “testing new heroes”, “chill game”, “tryhard”. and let us search only with people using the same tag. half the bad games I play aren’t even losses, it’s 5 guys trying random heroes for fun getting stomped by a stack that’s dead serious, or the opposite. nobody has fun in that game, also I know that people will try to abuse the system, so you would have to avoid the people who don't respect their tag also this is for unranked/turbo.

rematch button. we lose, we ask for a bo3, they accept or not. we just spent 40 min learning how these guys draft and play and then it’s gone forever. second game against the same team is always the best one, that’s why pro games are series. make it unranked if you want, I don’t care about the points

or even better, “same time tomorrow?” We’re adults. Someone has work, someone’s girlfriend is waiting, we can’t play 3 games in a row at 1am. Let us schedule a lobby with the other team. you’d end up with a team you play every thursday and actually know. that used to be how you made friends in games.

Guys do not buy this treasure until all items will be tradeable, marketable and giftable! In CS2 everything is sellable and tradable, but here we’re just supposed to accept it? This isn’t a minor restriction - it’s taking away our basic right to trade and gift items. Give us back control over our own inventory!

Edit: It's not about money or price. It's about forcing to recycle duplicates without able to gift to the friends and mates

The main problem is that if you opened 50 chests you have a lot of duplicates that you don't need. Yes you can recycle them for new chest, but whats the point.

I think, that bundles must be at least giftable once.

When Trove of Terror released, both Arcanas were clearly labelled as giftable, and the Roshan skin/Baby Roshan showed they would become marketable after October 13th.

I'm 100% sure because I was on Discord with friends, sharing screens and talking about those exact tags while opening treasures.

That's the reason I kept buying them. I ended up spending over $300 AUD, and by the time I finally got the Roshans, the marketable tag was gone. The giftable tags on the Arcanas disappeared too.

Had Valve said from the start that these items would be permanently account-locked, I wouldn't have spent that money.

That's what concerns me. I'm Australian, and Australian Consumer Law prohibits misleading representations about what consumers are purchasing. I'm not claiming Valve definitely broke the law, but changing a material condition after people have already spent money based on what was originally advertised seems like something worth looking into.

Did anyone screenshot or record the original tags before Valve changed them? Especially either Arcana showing Giftable, or the Roshans showing the October 13 market/trade cooldown.

Please post them if you did. I know a shit ton of us saw those tags, but now we need actual screenshots.

Edit: If any of you know any english or spanish streamer that was streaming as the updates were rolling out and reviewing the sets in real time please send me their channels, maybe I can get an screenshot of the Roshans label before it got changed. At this point all I want is my money back and valve can rollback all items from the treasure. Thank you so much.

• I wake up

• Realize I don't need to buy $250 of cosmetics in a video-game

• Money kept = money earned -> Free $250 every day

• $91,250 annual income in cosmetics I didn't buy

Never felt so rich before.

Hey r/DotA2 ,

I've been working on dotacounterpick, a website showing the counters for EVERY hero. I've grown frustrated by my teammates' poor usage of last pick and I've noticed a lot of users asking how to counter x,y hero with not much good answers.

I spent 200+ hours researching and writing the counters. They are all hand-written by myself without AI input.
I have written the counters from:

• Personal experience - I am a support player - currently 7300 MMR - rank #2400 on EU
• Input from players of similar or higher rank and pros
• Input from hero experts
• Research
• Watching tournaments

I tried to keep every matchup simple, so even less experienced players can use the website and understand what works best.

However, I cannot know every matchup in depth as nobody plays every hero, so I need your feedback and help in figuring out bugs and errors. You can do this by DMing me, emailing me at dotacounterpick@proton.me or using the contact form on the website.

There are no ads and the only way to support the website is by buying me a coffee.

The goal is to update the website weekly, as the meta can evolve even when there are no updates.

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

Regarding the new chest mentioned in the title, I will start with the positive part:

+ ggs for the theme, all sets are looking mighty fine
+ all the sets are polished and each set hat custom stuff like icons, sounds, etc.
+ there is a "bad luck protection" set in place ( you are guaranteed 1 drop of each arcana in 50 chests)
+ 12 chests = Tormentor Skin and 40 = Roshan Skin and Baby Rosh Courier ( Chtullu style )

Now the negative side :

- the items are bound to the account
- not even giftable once
- no "bad luck protection" for the rare and very rare items
- there is a recycling mechanism but for 6 chests ( 26.34 Euros ) you get 1 (4.39 Euros) 🤔 pretty bad tradeoff
- as far as i understand a few items form the new chest had tags like "Giftable once" but Valve patched that out later on

Like manny other players here I like to collect Items and used to gift dublicates to friends.

My plea to Valve is to make all the items at least giftable once.

Guys remember that we do not own the game or all these beautiful pixels that we gathered over the years...so with this in mind, I urge you to be vocal about at least letting us have the joy of sharing shiny pixels with friends while the game lasts and by the grace of Gaben himself the servers are up.

Thanks for reading!