DOTA 2: Petition to stop Russians playing on our servers!

[Snoek]

Nah, won't work. I'll sign for the cause cos I agree it's damn annoying but I love Euro servers. hopefully this doesn't cause a massive backlash.

I think it's better to add like a no-xp or no item clause to playing on foreign servers.

[InSanity]

Nah, won't work. I'll sign for the cause cos I agree it's damn annoying but I love Euro servers. hopefully this doesn't cause a massive backlash.

I think it's better to add like a no-xp or no item clause to playing on foreign servers.

Thats actually really not a bad idea

[The-1]

I find there are more South American players on the SA server (presumably because they cant see the difference between South America and South Africa) than Russians lately. The South Americans aren't too bad but 400+ ping hinders them quite a bit.

[InSanity]

I find there are more South American players on the SA server (presumably because they cant see the difference between South America and South Africa) than Russians lately. The South Americans aren't too bad but 400+ ping hinders them quite a bit.

Yeah also noticed the influx of south american players but I think little fishes idea is a good ine take away items and exp gain when not playing on your own server its not a solution but hopefully a deterrent

[Wlad]

I don't know if the wording of the petition has changed since yesterday, but I read it now and I actually agree with him. It's not xenophobic or anything at all. From what I understand he just wants Valve to give players the option to only get into games with other players from their region, not ban other nationalities from playing on SA servers. I don't play Dota myself (mostly because of the whole team game thing), but I can understand the frustration of not being able to communicate with your team members.

[Snoek]

I find there are more South American players on the SA server (presumably because they cant see the difference between South America and South Africa) than Russians lately. The South Americans aren't too bad but 400+ ping hinders them quite a bit.

I'm trying to go out my way to try and play on as many servers as I can at least once just to see what it's like ( different styles of play and whatnot) but the pings are just too bad. EU West are the most fun and I get a 250 ping which, while not ideal is still playable. South American ones are slow as hell and I'm not even going to try Australia. The Brazilians did get sort of pissed at me cos of my lag though.

[Snare]

The issue is that in general Russian players do tend to be of the griefing/feeding type. Of all the games I've ever played I have only come across 1 or 2 Russian players that didn't make me want to put my keyboard through the wall. Perhaps banning them outright is a bit of an extreme measure but it genuinely is an issue. Being a team game, you are only as strong as your weakest link, and if your weakest link can even SPEAK to you? then we have a problem

[to0kenZA]

THey should just change the name of our Region to Africa instead of South Africa. That should keep a percentage of the illiterate South American people off the servers.

[The Voice]

I don't know if the wording of the petition has changed since yesterday, but I read it now and I actually agree with him. It's not xenophobic or anything at all. From what I understand he just wants Valve to give players the option to only get into games with other players from their region, not ban other nationalities from playing on SA servers. I don't play Dota myself (mostly because of the whole team game thing), but I can understand the frustration of not being able to communicate with your team members.

The wording was changed, yes, and rightly - the original was a bit harsh.

[InSanity]

I still really like the idea of no exp or drops if you arent playing on your region server