Maurice Pogue from Geeks Under Grace writes:
“In my head I am a 4k player but the reality is that I am not….So right at the precipice of 3900 is likely where I belong despite my…displeasure. I know from personal experience and threads around the internet where DotA players gather that I am empirically better than a 3500 player, so a 4k player is probably better than I am.”
I published the above quote in August as I was mentally preparing for my annual fast from video games, coming to terms with my hopes as a DotA player and reconciling them with the truth. I did not want to give the impression that I was yet another DotA player suffering from the Dunning-Krueger Effect, believing that I am pro when in actuality, I’m a pub scrub. Still, I yet swore that I was better than my MMR indicated.
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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.
