As they should be. If anyone's going to salvage what little of WC3's old community and culture is left, it might as well be Valve. Especially since Blizzard sat on his trademark for years doing nothing after they turned SK into Leoric.
Yep, but then I think of all the time I would have to sink in relearning game I end up frustrated with more often than not. I quit around the time they changed the map (late 2016? 2017?) since I couldn't be arsed to relearn a lot of stuff, and yes I am aware these games change all the time but it had been the most drastic change since I began playing and been meaning to quit for a while anyways.
That's another reason that turned me off from Dota, I could understand arcanas being premium items, my problem was when they started to lock a lot of stuff behind battlepass levels that you couldn't realistically get without buying levels, buying the higher level battle pass and a booster helped you a little bit but that's it. I think it was the 2016 one that had a legion commander cosmetic locked behind level 200 or something ridicolous like that, that's when I realized battlepasses went from being a cool extra to boost the money pool of TI to trying to suck as much money as possible from whales.
I'm down to hearing exactly what's changed since Reborn, since that was around the last time I tried to seriously play the game in any major capacity.
Oh I haven't been completely gone since Reborn, I usually pick it up here and there for The Internationals just to get a basic idea of what's changed so there are a few basic things I know (see: rune locations, the talent trees, kinda-sorta the outposts, and son on), but it's always nice to have a proper comprehensive list to show what I have missed. For instance:
That was probably the big thing that's been screwing me over the whole time in my past games: I did not know that that was a thing. That would've been really helpful to know.
I noticed that and initially I thought it was amazing because it put less pressure on and would allow me to focus on gamesense and positioning more, but in using the talent trees: I could never figure out exactly what combination to go with for those. I distinctly remember during one of the few times I played in 2019, I tried using the in-game guide system made for the most recent build of the game to use as a bit of a crutch in Unranked to relearn after a year absence post-TI8, but our team still kept getting steamrolled and I kept getting flamed for having the wrong build, and not rotating properly because one of the heroes I picked kept getting trilaned at mid.
Zyori always was a gigantic faggot; very cringe.
