Being a huge LoL fan, I'm always on the prowl for another MOBA to get addicted to because LoL decided to make tanks unkillable, dps GODS and still screwing over mages. TL;DR the balancing is putrid, and the last update broke the game and my addiction, so I heard about DOTA 2. It was from Valve, it was the original MOBA; why not?

For me, I just can't get into it for several reasons. First off, this game is absurdly cryptic; I'm talking like, super-computer-nerd-programmer complicated. I felt overwhelmed with no tutorial. In the options menu, almost EVERY FREAKING BUTTON did something super important. That, and it seems like I can't click anywhere or press any button without opening a menu that leads to 30 other menus and half of them don't respond to clicks.

Second, the community doesn't seem very friendly. As I stumbled around as the bounty hunter in a bot match, I asked my teammates a few questions on how to play. No one responded, but I suddenly heard some kid rambling in....I think it was russian? Did this for a few games and I was done, which leads me to the third and most important reason I can't get hooked on this game:

This game hates newcomers. This game and it's community will do just about ANYTHING to keep anyone new from introducing themselves to the game. When I first started, there wasn't even a tutorial. The only way to learn was to dig through hours of youtube vids and builds; very merticulously disecting the game piece by meaty, complicated piece to make sense of any of it, and the community hates....HATES anyone who is not a veteran already. DOTA 2's fanbase is just a small cult following, now.

The game itself seems ok, but another turn off was the graphics. I'm not one to be like 'omg suhc bad grafic hert mah eyez 0/10 wtf its 2015', but I do want the game to look appealing. This game's map and characters are very generic and have washed out color pallettes.

I still check in from time to time to see if I finally break through that barrier and "get the dota bug", but so far, only LoL has done that for me. LoL hooked me right away, but no other MOBA seems to do the same.

They finally did add a tutorial, which helped a lot, but I still see myself far from really getting into this.

Welp, that's the end of another negative Steam Community review. Let the downvote and illogical, elitist call-outs begin.

Being a huge LoL fan, I'm always on the prowl for another MOBA to get addicted to because LoL decided to make tanks unkillable, dps GODS and still screwing over mages. TL;DR the balancing is putrid, and the last update broke the game and my addiction, so I heard about DOTA 2. It was from Valve, it was the original MOBA; why not? For me, I just can't get into it for several reasons. First off, this game is absurdly cryptic; I'm talking like, super-computer-nerd-programmer complicated. I felt overwhelmed with no tutorial. In the options menu, almost EVERY FREAKING BUTTON did something super important. That, and it seems like I can't click anywhere or press any button without opening a menu that leads to 30 other menus and half of them don't respond to clicks. Second, the community doesn't seem very friendly. As I stumbled around as the bounty hunter in a bot match, I asked my teammates a few questions on how to play. No one responded, but I suddenly heard some kid rambling in....I think it was russian? Did this for a few games and I was done, which leads me to the third and most important reason I can't get hooked on this game: This game hates newcomers. This game and it's community will do just about ANYTHING to keep anyone new from introducing themselves to the game. When I first started, there wasn't even a tutorial. The only way to learn was to dig through hours of youtube vids and builds; very merticulously disecting the game piece by meaty, complicated piece to make sense of any of it, and the community hates....HATES anyone who is not a veteran already. DOTA 2's fanbase is just a small cult following, now. The game itself seems ok, but another turn off was the graphics. I'm not one to be like 'omg suhc bad grafic hert mah eyez 0/10 wtf its 2015', but I do want the game to look appealing. This game's map and characters are very generic and have washed out color pallettes. I still check in from time to time to see if I finally break through that barrier and "get the dota bug", but so far, only LoL has done that for me. LoL hooked me right away, but no other MOBA seems to do the same. They finally did add a tutorial, which helped a lot, but I still see myself far from really getting into this. Welp, that's the end of another negative Steam Community review. Let the downvote and illogical, elitist call-outs begin.