{"id":13458,"date":"2011-08-12T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"valve-defends-dota-community-s-bad-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13458-valve-defends-dota-community-s-bad-reputation","title":{"rendered":"Valve defends DOTA community\u2019s bad reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every online gaming community has its griefers and trolls, but if you had to make a list of the most egregious offenders, DOTA would probably be shoving Halo and Counter-Strike around for the top (dis)honours.<\/p>\n<p>According to Valve, however, this is a misconception. Of course, they kind of have to be nice because they&rsquo;re working on a sequel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t think the DOTA community is a toxic one at all,&rdquo; DOTA 2 project lead Erik Johnson tells <a href=\"http:\/\/au.pc.gamespy.com\/pc\/dota-2010\/1187567p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A huge number of users spend a huge amount of their time just writing guides to teach new (and experienced) players strategies for heroes, items, and high-level strategy for the game. In any community of this size, you&rsquo;re going to run into some people that rub you the wrong way but I think that is true for, well, your average grocery store.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The thing about DOTA, he reckons, is that most of the players are just pretty hardcore. It&rsquo;s serious business.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hardcore used to mean a fairly small group within a larger community that were dedicated to a particular product and spent a lot of their time interacting with the community, both inside and outside of the game experience,&rdquo; he explains.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the case of DOTA, there are tens of millions of people that play the game, and it seems like most fit that description.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Valve is prepping DOTA 2 for its big reveal at gamescom in Germany next week, which they&rsquo;re doing alongside a $1 million tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16480-Valve-says-DotA-community-is-quot-not-toxic-at-all-quot?p=494194#post494194\" target=\"_self\">Discuss DotA&#8217;s community<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t think the DOTA community is a toxic one at all\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}