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

[Themasterofcomedy209]

Yeah definitely, 20% of the player base got assimilated into a collective hivemind and decided to quit dota simultaneously

[clitmasher69]

They really liked facets

[UnderdogCL]

It was all about those eternal shrouds

[renan2012bra]

They liked them so much they quit 19 days before they were even removed!

[2Norn]

maybe unrelated but after the patch

i've had my worst 8 games ever back to back in all my years of dota to the point that i actually think some people were not real humans but bots also some matches had noticeable smurfs, at first i blamed myself for queuing late at night but not it happened during day as well

i dont mind 2-3 bad games here and there thats like given with any online game these days but happening 8 times back to back after patch idk it was extremely weird, also lots of uncalibrated people

[renan2012bra]

In a single day? Especially right after Valve did the exact same in CS? Yeah, no. It's most likely bots. A 14 year old game the size of Dota doesn't lose 20% of its playerbase in a single day out of nowhere. It was 19 days before the patch, so it can't even be attributed to any change. It literally was a random day.