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Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by Pxtl on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:06PM (#6024088)
> ... and you soon get ganked by a level 12 middle hero when you're only level 6. You get run over as well as they're little you can do. The rest of the game snowballs like this and because you can't give up in DotA 2, you have to play for 15-20 minutes defending or not defending your base against feeded (too strong) opponents

This block of text here explains why I consider the entire genre to be fundamentally flawed.

Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by chii on Thursday July 11, 2013 @04:11AM (#6024981)
At high skill level, these things don't happen. When you play pub games, who cares about winning or losing, its fun to lose anyway. If you are serious, you will have a team (and may be organized team tournaments), and it doesn't suck the way described above.