Intentional Game Ruining: part 2 some clarifications

Reading some initial reactions I feel the need to clarify some points I have made.



First off, I am fully aware that I am not the only person this is happening to. If I thought this was an isolated incident, I would have attempted to deal with it in my own way. The number of times I have been in a pub and one of my teammates intentionally feeds down mid because one of my other teammates ruined his previous game is too many to count.



Secondly, I am not complaining about the overall impact of game ruining on my MMR as a whole. Games are just as terrible when someone on the enemy team does this. Game quality is what is in question here. None of these occurrences are independent from one another. 4298265829 this is the link of the game I mentioned in my initial post. Do you think it is a coincidence that my next game that night (I queued my alternate 7k account because I was tired of having my MMR decided by chance) had Venom on the other team and one of his teammates intentionally ruined the game by picking Venomancer and jungling (game ID 4298299592)? Just because this new Venomancer wasn't in the previous game, doesn't make this a coincidence.



Next, I have had countless viewers tell me their own testimonies of the same player ruining their games just after they got done reporting them. If we are not allowed to have a short ban list, can we at least not get matched up with someone we have reported in the last 24 hours? This problem is simply magnified at the highest MMRs because of the size of the player pool but it impacts everyone in the community.



Quality of games has continued to drop over time and I personally believe this is due to the snowballing nature of people ruining each other's games. When one player gets away with ruining everyone else's games, what stops others from joining in? In my personal experience, the only way to not lose my mind when someone is throwing my game is to become apathetic to the game. I personally do not go on to intentionally feed other games but I am also in the public spotlight and have motivations not to do so. I am not a saint, nobody is perfect. I get frustrated and play much worse as a result of people doing this in my games. Toxicity breeds toxicity and no player is above that. What am I supposed to say to an up and coming rank 300 player who has his games ruined by higher ranked players and decides that he has no better way to cope than to join in. What is stopping this from bleeding all the way down to the most beginner levels of ranked play?



Dota has always been one of the most amazing games when you win and one of the most miserable games when you lose. Almost any Dota player will agree to that (in my opinion). As of late, winning is not my highest hope. Every game is a roulette spin where I am simply hoping that 10 players will try to win and play an actual game.



The sad reality is that mathematically if 10% of the community are game ruiners, nearly all games will be ruined. However, the positive side of this, is that this is truly an issue caused by less than 10% of the community. With no repercussions for their actions, this small fraction controls the entire atmosphere of the community.



I believe Valve alone has the power to implement a system that will address this issue but we as a community have the power to make ourselves heard. I love Dota. It is, in my opinion, the best game ever created. I also believe that a problem this serious could easily kill the game if left unchecked. It is not getting better.



That is all. Thank you.





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