Valve’s 5 Bad Decisions With Dota 2

Vavle’s decisions with Dota 2 are sometimes bad and out of date. They cannot manage the professional arena and the decisions below are testament to that incompetence.

The lack of careful calculation when creating Dota Pro Circuit

For Dota teams, just winning one Major is enough to win tickets directly to TI. For the players, it was great that they didn’t have to practice and compete until TI, but for the team management and tournament organizers, it was a complete failure. They are the ones responsible for finding funding and maintaining resources for Dota teams, but Valve fails to protect these people. The promotional activities also do not help them much because the players have the choice not to participate if they do not want to.

Do you remember the time when teams like Virtus.Pro dominated the top of DPC when they won tournaments in the first half of the year. After making sure they have enough points to attend TI, they have almost no motivation to practice or compete. Some teams didn’t even participate or dropped invited tournaments in the pre-TI period because they felt they had enough points. This problem is not only causing teams to lose their form when entering TI, but for management and tournament organizers, this is a concern when viewers lose interest in teams with bad performances. harmful.

Divide Europe and the CIS into two regions

This decision was not bad before, because the CIS teams at that time owned the strongest teams in the world. Now, CIS has almost no appeal when the strongest teams in the region are not able to win the right to attend the Major.

South America and North America are split for understandable reasons as ping inadequacies don’t allow the two sides to play stably in the long run, but CIS doesn’t have such an issue. This area in the past time stagnates because there is no strong team or any good tournament. And the only way for this region not to fall behind is to compete in the qualifiers in other regions.

No decision to make to improve Dota 2

If there was an award for which studios are idle and do nothing to maintain their game, Valve deserves a nomination for first prize with Dota 2. The emergence of racist dramas does not help the game increase. adding more players on the contrary caused many other problems to appear, but Valve also did not care.

Recently, we have had a drama about individuals related to Dota 2 being accused of being involved in sexual harassment acts. Although Valve did the right thing to temporarily not get involved with dramas during the “hot oil” period. But after that time, Valve seems to have done nothing to fix the problem. Temporarily ignoring the issue of right and wrong in the drama above, what we can conclude is that Valve really does nothing to protect its community, both the victim and the denounced party. Assuming the accusations are true, then we can conclude that Valve cannot protect the clean environment of the Dota 2 community. And if the accusations are false, then who will want to contribute to Dota 2 again when it comes? Both Redeye and Tobiwan had to say goodbye to their Caster careers without finding any support (even Dota 2’s other fellow casters tried to stay away from them when the drama broke out).

In addition to the problem related to the Dota community, Valve’s Server is also extremely ridiculous. Crash game and disconnect server continuously in a match right in the middle of the big tournament? Valve will probably only fix it if the server crashes at the TI finals.

Moved TI10 indefinitely and no move back

This decision was a disaster. When all the top leagues were back, but Valve still decided to do nothing and just announced that it would reschedule TI. This has made it impossible for many small organizations to survive without major leagues.

Second, because the amount of TI10 money has been accumulated for nearly two years, this means that Valve will have an exclusive position at the top of the list of eSports tournaments with the highest amount of money in history. And this will easily give the Dota 2 system the illusion that they are doing a great job maintaining and developing Dota 2 while not investing in marketing or solving other problems in the game.

Unreasonable way to divide bonuses during the whole season

Last year, Valve spent only $6.5 million for the entire season, and spent $31.2 million in one week of TI. It is too disproportionate and is considered unfair by many organizations. This outbreak also revealed another problem when many teams left Dota 2 because they couldn’t make money during the season. Only in the first week of September, in the Sea region alone, two top teams, Geek Farm and Reality Rift, announced their farewell to Dota 2. Who will be the next victim? If the distribution of the prize money remains the same as it is to put all the money into TI, then with only 18 teams benefiting, surely the rest consisting of tier 2 teams and semi-professional teams will soon go bankrupt or not. enough motivation to pursue Dota 2 passion.

While Valve eats 75% of the prize money we contribute to the tournament, there are no Dota 2 tournaments being held. No TI, no Major and not even a regional tournament. Is that really okay?

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