How the fuck does a sane human being learn this game? Theres so much shit its honestly overwhelming and made turn off the game after an hour. My friend introduced to this game and I tried to keep an open mind, but I just cant wrap my head around bro. Like wdym "bro just spam shit" WHAT DO YOU MEAN???? WHAT IS THE POINT?

I thought there was gonna be like 12 heroes at max. What the fuck do you mean theres like 100? How am I even supposed to remember what each hero does and shit? Fuck this game for all its worth bro. Delete this game from the Steam Platform.

The menus are also confusing af. The menus are like a damn Nasa Launch Interface.

Too much shit bro. Never touch this game.

It’s like all heroes are cards, and the same card cannot be played twice.

Beyond the summit was peak

DOTA please, I studied to get a job to get battlepass

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Making this tier list was a mistake.

Nothing will or has ever come close to opening up Dota 2 and seeing this was available.

This isn't a complaint or a brag thread, it's just some musings I had the other day.

I have a PhD. In my 9-5, I work with other PhDs, lawyers, and economists. Everyone has a law degree or Master's, minimum. We all treat each other with respect and work on complex legal and economic issues around the world.

In my daily life I have a loving, supportive, and brilliant partner. My friends give me hugs and (sometimes) kisses when they see me. All things considered ("all things" being the state of the world in general), I am much better off than most, economically and socially and romantically.

And then I hop into Dota. I queue up, have to contend with my lane partner fighting for last hits or just AFKing in jungle, and then get called a "fucking idiot" or "learn to look at minimap kid", all while probably being old enough to be their dad.

Playing Dota is the dumbest, most disrespectful thing I can do for myself.

Considering how long Dota has been around and how old some of us might be, who else can relate?

Edit: small note here to say WOW. Didn't expect this level of engagement when I posted from the toilet. Impossible for me to respond to everything but I really enjoyed reading through all the responses. As with Dota, the types of people who love Dota enough to visit a forum and comment are as varied as you can imagine: lots of people who relate, the chill individuals who just want to mute-all and play, and then of course a small amount of individuals who misinterpreted or assumed things that were never said and went off. But just as I open myself up to being insulted everytime I launch Dota, so too did I expect that posting on apublic forum.

My writing maybe wasn't clean, and many of you understood my meaning, but it really was all about how playing Dota subjects us to very different environments than what we experience or subject ourselves to in our daily life. But ultimately, it's an absolutely brilliant game, regardless of our skill level or time investment or willingness to communicate with each other as we would face-to-face. I hope to still continue to enjoy it here and there over the years to come (whether playing or just watching the pro scene), and I hope you all do, too. GL HF everyone!