Why you need to stop playing this GAME and avoid it from your life.

I normally used to play lot of games on online ( on steam as well as on other popular platform ) but one day I find this game called "DOTA 2" and their starts my journey of addiction to this game.

The problem I have is that if you are a loner like me, Dota is definately not for you. This game can only be enjoyed if you have other friends playing this with you. Unlike other MOBA's like Smite and HotS, those games can be enjoyed with other random players you have never met and won't get punished to much for it.

This is just a personal opinion of mine so everyone can hate me for it, but I just don't like Dota 2. Every single match is waste of 30mins or even more. At this point in time, I've wasted round 3-5 years of my life playing this game.

It's a small amount compared to the hours that my peers and teammates have amassed, even I, who had started when beta was released to the general public. A good chunk of the gaming population has played it at least once, or have heard of it, or am still playing even as type this review out.

Anywho, let's talk about Dota.

TBH Dota 2 is not a game; it's a major time sink. You spend the first 100-200 games improving your gameplay to be even called "below average", whilst losing horribly in every single one. You will weep. Burst in an outrage. Asking yourself why did you ever choose to play this game in the first place.

Every single game roughly consists of 40-50 mins that you give all your efforts to be returned with a fleeting feeling of joy. Bliss. Or the soul crushing depression of losing the past 10 games during the weekend - the times you turned down your friends at a night out to play this game.

It's not because Dota is hard. No, no. It's not the mechanics that you have fine-tuned yourself in being able to do over and over a 100 times without messing up.

In my words, it could very well be as easy as playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure or as ball crushing hard as playing Dark Souls with no proper equipment - simply because the game boils down to one thing:

Teamwork. Synergy between people, how they cooperate, willingly or not. More often at times you're going to have the most disillusioned people with a lexicon of a drunk jaded middle-aged man who's going through a mid life crisis rather than the quiet, reserved player who tries his/her best in assisting your efforts in a win.

It can be argued that the game can be won single-handedly by a skilled player, but it's a pipe dream to seek that out, for most of the general population - but it does not deter them from doing so, which leads to yet another problem/frustration within the game.

People seek glory within it; they yearn the temporary recognition it brings, and those players put their teammates beneath them, which ultimately loses them the game.

In short there are a lot of different reasons and expectations of the game, which may cause conflicts ultimately losing you the game. Save yourself the trouble and do something else.

You need a lot of time to get into it. Once you done it. You ll love it. You will learn russian. You will learn new swear words. You will learn REAL hate. You will learn to (dis)respect. You will learn that hating the people from one country doesnt make you a racist.