Dota 2 - Brilliance or Insanity?

dank

http://www.develop-online.net/news/40568/Valve-DOTA-2-will-be-a-new-kind-of-free-to-play

My personal opinion on this article... wtf I hope TSA post nude photos of you online and then charges you for every seat to ride on a 747 Gabe, you fat sob. Sorry bro it's just personal opinion due to comments I read in other forums about your weight, so it's fair.

I'm curious what you think.

Pie

It's a good concept, but I'm not sure just how you can implement it. Discount based upon likability can always be manipulated. How hard is it to create a blog or website with a "you like me, I will like you" theme and people will google it and suddenly most of the players are playing full content for free regardless of actual likeness factors.

dank

New people do screw your team and they are the biggest complaint. This is a tax on new people and I'm one of them. It's bad enough that I have to sit there for 45 minutes and can not even stop playing while my team is screaming at me and saying they'll report me because I'm new and tried a new character. If I leave I get hit with an abandon. I abandon another game at any point over the weekend it takes me 60 minutes to get into a match for a few days. They put you in a pool called low priority. The only thing that could piss me off any more would be charging me to get out of that pool to top it off.

Persona

it will likely be done using the report system implemented in the game. ie: if you have a report level that is higher than a predetermined level, you will have to pay X/month to continue playing.

Edit: which is kind of BS, because we all have our off-games and sometimes get stuck with heros we are truly bad at. everyone loves reporting for "Intentionally feeding" when it's not actually the case.