{"id":81866,"date":"2015-10-01T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=81866"},"modified":"2015-10-02T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T09:51:52","slug":"dota-2-reborn-is-broken-and-losing-tons-of-players-as-a-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81866-dota-2-reborn-is-broken-and-losing-tons-of-players-as-a-result","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 Reborn is broken and losing tons of players as a result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dota2.com\/reborn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2 Reborn<\/a><\/em> marks the highly competitive and immensely popular <em>Dota 2\u2019s<\/em> shift to the much more capable <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Source_(game_engine)#Source_2_engine\" target=\"_blank\">Source Engine 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With it comes a great many improvements, many of which have made marked improvements to the user experience, particularly when browsing your inventory or personalising heroes, watching DotaTV games, socialising with friends or the community, and showing off your achievements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Reborn-New-Client-Experience.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81876\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Reborn-New-Client-Experience.jpg\" alt=\"Dota 2 Reborn - New Client Experience\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Reborn-New-Client-Experience.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Reborn-New-Client-Experience-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Reborn-New-Client-Experience-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Source Engine 2 has also allowed for an absurd number of custom game types and an assortment of new ways to play <em>Dota 2<\/em>, some of which are immensely enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even allowed <em>Warcraft 3<\/em> custom maps to flourish once more with many of them being recreated in <em>Dota 2<\/em>, with mixed results \u2013 though many of them are more enjoyable than their <em>StarCraft 2<\/em> counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d imagine, then, that <em>Dota 2<\/em> <em>Reborn<\/em> would mark a new milestone for Valve and the already massive <em>Dota 2<\/em> community \u2013 nope.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dota 2 WTF Moments 138\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n06LmLErsKo?start=152&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like with so many games of late, Valve has committed one of the greatest videogaming sins, releasing a game before its ready \u2013 are you listening <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77974-warner-bros-knew-batman-arkham-knight-on-pc-was-a-mess.html\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/81838-ubisoft-releases-another-broken-game.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>There are only two ways in which that is acceptable, the game is in beta or it\u2019s an Early Release title. <em>Dota 2 Reborn <\/em>is neither of those things.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <em>Dota 2<\/em> <em>Reborn<\/em> was in beta for a relatively short period while Valve slowly transitioned players over from the Source Engine 1 client, but was nowhere near ready when they halted all activity in the original client, forcing players to use <em>Reborn<\/em> or nothing.<\/p>\n<p>So are you surprised that a good deal of players stopped playing <em>Dota 2 Reborn<\/em> during September? We\u2019re not; we\u2019ve had quite a few aggravating experiences with <em>Reborn<\/em> ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=1118596\" target=\"_blank\">NeoGAF<\/a> user Archie, <em>Dota 2\u2019s<\/em> new client is \u201chaemorrhaging players\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Average-Players-per-month.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81874\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dota-2-Average-Players-per-month.jpg\" alt=\"Dota 2 - Reborn - Average Players per month\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the period of 30 days, in fact, <em>Dota 2<\/em><u>,<\/u> has lost an average of 98,787 players, the largest change in players in the game\u2019s history \u2013 the second largest being a gain of 92, 920 over August in 2013, likely attributed to The International 2013 (TI3).<\/p>\n<p>It should be pointed out that the average over the past few days has been higher than September\u2019s overall average \u2013 Valve has made a committed effort to patch the living hell out of <em>Dota 2 Reborn<\/em> \u2013 so the worst of it may be behind Valve. We also suspect that some of the player decline is a result of impending exams and academic obligations for players all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it doesn\u2019t excuse Valve. We get that having a larger player base playing Reborn will result in much more user feedback as well as bugs being picked up sooner, and that\u2019s great. But we\u2019re all suffering for it.<\/p>\n<p>This nonsense of releasing an incomplete game and having us as free quality assurance staff needs to stop, sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81804-cryengines-latest-lighting-tech-turns-mmo-miscreated-into-a-visual-splendour.html\">CryENGINE\u2019s latest lighting tech turns MMO Miscreated into a visual splendour<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81574-capcom-recommends-r3000-plus-gpu-for-street-fighter-v.html\">Capcom recommends R3000 plus GPU for Street Fighter V<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81381-shower-with-your-dad-simulator-2015-is-an-actual-game-that-actually-exists.html\">Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015 is an actual game that actually exists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Valve is guilty of releasing broken titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":81872,"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":[3],"tags":[15988,15986,2218,15984,639,15397,697],"class_list":["post-81866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-average-players","tag-broken","tag-dota-2","tag-dota-2-reborn","tag-moba","tag-pc","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81866","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81878,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81866\/revisions\/81878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}