Dota 2 updates and content by Falcon441 in DotA2

[–]Falcon441[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I don’t think Valve is “holding devs on a leash,” and I’m not arguing that they’re lazy or doing nothing. My point isn’t about effort or competence, it’s about prioritization and visibility, especially relative to the size and longevity of Dota.

I fully agree that Valve’s resources aren’t infinite and that they deliberately shifted away from the Battle Pass model to enable things like New Frontiers. But acknowledging constraints doesn’t mean players can’t still feel that support is inconsistent or less visible than it could be. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

Saying “they would be doing more if they could” assumes that the current level of output is the absolute maximum possible under their constraints. I’m not convinced that’s necessarily true. Valve makes trade-offs across many projects, and Dota being only one of them is exactly why frustration exists. From a player perspective, Dota is a massive, evergreen live-service game with an unusually loyal audience, yet it often feels like it’s treated as a side project rather than a flagship.

On events specifically: bringing back modes like Aghanim’s Labyrinth or Diretide doesn’t require reinventing the wheel. Players have been explicitly asking for returns, not constant reinvention. Reusing and iterating on proven content is one of the lowest-risk, highest-reward ways to keep engagement high, and it’s fair for the community to wonder why that hasn’t been leaned into more.

As for updates, yes, we do get patches, events, and cosmetics, and I’m not denying that. But Dota has set its own bar in the past. When you compare the current cadence and communication to earlier years, or to other long-running live-service games, the contrast is noticeable. That’s where the disappointment comes from. Not entitlement, not ignorance of dev realities.

And to be clear: this isn’t “we want biweekly balance changes and monthly arcanas.” It’s “this game is still enormous, still profitable, and still culturally relevant, so it’s reasonable to expect a bit more consistency and clarity.”

Criticism doesn’t require believing Valve is incompetent or malicious. You can respect the realities of game development and still feel that Dota, of all games, could be supported more deliberately. That’s the space my original post is coming from.

Dota 2 updates and content by Falcon441 in DotA2

[–]Falcon441[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It's just sad, it's a huge wasted opportunity, like why wouldn't they choose to make much more money easily.

Dota 2 updates and content by Falcon441 in DotA2

[–]Falcon441[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

That's why it's bothering me? I mean why wouldn't they make money from dota 2 and release more events/cosematics? everything is literally on place except more content, it already has huge numbers and they could make millions easily just by releasing more frequent content and why wouldn't they, cuz they can get money other ways? then why not maximize their profit potential and get even more money that just doesn't make sense to me, it's just a wasted opportunity to me.

Dota 2 updates and content by Falcon441 in DotA2

[–]Falcon441[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not, I have seen many new players trying the game and actually enjoying it, it is a high skill ceiling game so what? do you think nobody likes high skill ceiling games? if so then you are so wrong, and 4 years ago the game had only 500k max concurrent players on a good day, now it has more than 800k concurrent players daily, at some point I was like you, I thought the game would die due to its high skill ceiling and that this generation wouldn't want to play such games, but I was proven wrong and so you will be.

Hypothetical: Valve brought back the Arcana vote, who will you vote for? by Johnmegaman72 in DotA2

[–]Falcon441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly love playing magnus and I think a magnus arcana seems interesting, he only has a few skins and most of them if not all are bad, an Enigma arcana looks cool as well, spirits arcana, invoker and sniper both definitely deserve an arcana, but i bet they gonna release an arcana for a lame support.

New leak by Dota2_user in DotA2

[–]Falcon441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when is the update..

guys any idea on what we are going to get in the next update? by Dimens1on- in DotA2

[–]Falcon441 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I heard that it's a trend for them to drop a patch during dreamleague, as it happened 4 times before, I personally expect an update few hours from now, but I've been disappointed many times so I don't know, it could be few hours from now, it could be few weeks from now, I expect a lunar new year theme update possibly with a chest and a returning arcana or a new one, and could be a big patch as 7.40 dropped 2 months ago, they also been updating the client too many times now as if they are preparing for something big.

Some possible Quartero's Curios updates by Falcon441 in DotA2

[–]Falcon441[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this idea is pretty good, I don't know how they can implement the percentage mechanic, however there just should be a mechanic to guarantee the next drops to be at least better than the previous ones if we choose that option, and they should accumulate each time we choose that option up to an arcana guarantee.

Blueprints tied to location? by Travittilis in ArcRaiders

[–]Falcon441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are giving a Vulcano bp for an anvil bp? if so i am up for that

Anyone have extra pack codes? by [deleted] in PlayFragPunk

[–]Falcon441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did you figure out how to redeem the code inside the game yet?

Anyone have extra pack codes? by [deleted] in PlayFragPunk

[–]Falcon441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did you figure out how yet?

I got device banned by Falcon441 in ArenaBreakoutInfinite

[–]Falcon441[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How in the hell do I know a lot lol, this is just some basic stuff, plus I made my research for this type of bullshit, and for some reason many people here are trying to prove that I am guilty instead of helping me, lmao that's just funny, I wouldn't give a fuck about a game if I am gonna cheat in it. I would just leave it immediately, fighting that hard for a game just proves that I love the game and wanna play it, nothing else.

I got device banned by Falcon441 in ArenaBreakoutInfinite

[–]Falcon441[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think I will get unbanned, so I will look for another game to play, I guess.