Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters in Dota 2

Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by nemothekid on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:12PM (#34918145)

Blaming 5 other people for not understanding to play around 21 other wildly different heroes isn't flexibility in game design. Your are asking 5 other people to play a fundamentally different game than the one they have learned.

You couldn't "individually experiment" because fundamentally you needed team experimentation; you can't play Reinhardt in isolation, and subjecting your team to experimentation on your own whims leads to toxicity.

I think many people who go down the "I should be able to play what I want and people should adapt to me" don't realize they are being selfish in play style in a game like Overwatch.

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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by invalidOrTaken on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:01PM (#34919219)

I mean, it sounds like they were just bad at the game that Overwatch was. I learned to adapt around them, after all. I won't deny it was hard. But it was also very fun and rewarding.

Overwatch is a different, less flexible game now, closer to what I think most people thought Overwatch was, and apparently wanted. It is what it is.

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