14 august 2016
DoTA 2 is a waste of time
Such complicated rules, so many possible mechanics and team-play possibilities. Each game lasts around 40 minutes (sometimes more, rarely less) and is different from every other game.
You cannot play this game with random players. You have to get used to your team's style of play, and no one player can single-handedly win the game.
All these mechanisms to learn... and for what? It almost seems like the game was designed poorly and people exploited its loopholes and then the authors simply said this was part of the "game mechanic" and that they weren't going to make everything fair to every character in the DoTA universe. Some DoTA heroes are just plain shit and cannot fulfil any role in a team of five trying to destroy the opposite team's Ancient (which is a building-like structure).
If, instead, the mechanisms of chemical reactions, the reasoning and deduction behind Maths' proofs, the nuances and applications of simple laws of physics — all these were studied, they would have credible application in the real world instead of the made-up world of DoTA.
So don't play DoTA because it's not a game that relaxes you, but one that competes for your time with other relevant and difficult activities.