IncGamers reports that Valve have updated the Dota 2 blog with more details on the Foreseer's Contract update, which is due to hit Dota 2 this week. Oracle will be joining the hero lineup alongside a Phantom Assassin Arcana, some promised bonuses for Compendium users, a "Nemesis Assassin" event, and a lot of little tweaks and additions.
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.
Valve permanently banned 40,000 cheaters who were using software to look at internal data in the Dota 2 PC client while playing.
The following people have won a free boat
Report to the Springfield police station to claim it
omg. Noooo Oracle is gonna ruin the meta :(
Well written article though :3