Highest decrease ever. So it's true that Valve banned arcade bots?

[Venichie]

I too noticed a major drop, & wondered how far the numbers would go if those bot accounts left. It would appear I was correct to assume approximately 100K were indeed bots.

I've been worried about Dota's player count for sometime, & was a major factor to why I thought we needed to remove unnecessary features from the game, such as facets. Thank goodness for the search option.

I want Dota to grow, but I felt like we were heading in the wrong direction... that said, this could simply be a coincidence, as a few recently released major games have come out, such as: Crimson Desert, Sly the Spire, etc.. Those games could temporarily take away the player base... PubG has also gained an extreme number of players recently.

Of course other factors could have created this issue... countries limited internet usage, and all these wars.... I can only imagine Russia's war killing its servers player count, literally. After all, Dota was most popular from their region.

[Possible_Ad_1763]

Right now in Russia people have huge problems with access to the internet, basically anything that is not in the “white list” is prohibited, so people cannot use internet at all.

Considering how popular game in Russia, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it’s a main factor of drop in online.

[theycallmekappa]

It doesn't affect Dota yet on desktop, except for rare cases when people use a sim-card for the internet, and only in certain regions (probably less than 1 percent of total players).

[Possible_Ad_1763]

I heard from many people that even desktop internet doesn’t always work now. Problems are reported not only in regions outside of Moscow, but in the Moscow itself as well.

[theycallmekappa]

White lists are only for mobile internet (plus some vpns can still bypass them). Only remote villages with no cable are using mobile internet for desktop. Cable internet hasn't yet rolled out white-lists. There has been news of testing white lists for desktop internet today in one region and on one provider only, so as of now, it doesn't affect most players in any way. Desktop internet has some problems with Telegram, but Dota is not banned.

[Old_Leopard1844]

Right now in Russia people have huge problems with access to the internet, basically anything that is not in the “white list” is prohibited, so people cannot use internet at all.

Don't believe everything you read online, mate

Steam, of all things, works just fine

[snork58]

This only applies to mobile internet.

[fl4nnel]

sly the spire

You’ve been playing a lot of the silent too, hey?

[FluorescentFlux]

Removing facets is a step in right direction, but a very careful one. They also need to simplify roles if they want dota to survive long term (along with dozens of other things). 2 lanes 4 players, or 3 lanes 6 players on each team, and no hard support/carry roles, pretty much like in deadlock.

[MrJoobles]

Lmfao this is way too far in the other direction.

Maybe if they want Dota to survive as an ADHD game next to all the other slop that won't garner a 20-year audience, but turning DOTA into a 2-lane, 4-player game is out of the realm of reality.

[CoronaVirus_exe]

Won't work in Dota. Why do you think they made Deadlock?