Love the responses I'm getting.

At the first sign of lag or high ping, thousands of "wtf volvo" appear in the air. Dota is a free game that has been polished immensely by Valve. Just because your shitty internet is ruining your experience doesn't mean you can undermine the entirety of Valve's gracious work on the game itself.

If you really know there's gonna be server maintenance coming up, why are you even complaining. And do you really think Valve would dedicate nearly 3 entire days just to fix your lag? Maintenance is a broad word.

If you really can't stand the lag and can't do anything else other than complain, I'd suggest you go back to flying spaghetti monster.

Okay, my bad. I got the dates wrong. But really, I had lag-free games on the 24th. The only reason why you hear about those people getting lag is because nobody talks about not having it. People don't say "I didn't have lag", but rather people love to say "I got lag, wtf volvo". So how can you really gauge which side of the coin is the majority?
I have no clue how server maintenance works, but I'm assuming that for a game like Dota 2, even in just the SEA region, it take a long time and a lot of hard work, hence why they have 3 days of limited capacity and 1 day of absolutely no Dota. Maybe the server maintenance extended because someone screwed something up and it cost SEA players a few extra hours of limited capacity. Or maybe they found something or rather than required them to take a few more hours or an extra day to fix.

SO WHAT

You really think that a game as massive as Dota 2, run by ~30 employees for the entire game (including all the other regions), will expect to meet your every whim and fancy. Server maintenance sounds pretty f***ing important, judging by the name. If it takes a bit more time to get it right, might as well be glad that it done and over with rather than moan about "muh lost MMR", cause its going to happen anyway.

Just because we don't see the immediate results of something as ambiguous as "Server Maintenance" doesn't mean it is absolutely useless. Just because Valve took away 4 or even 5 days of your "doto time" without any cosmetics or bug fixes to show for what they did, doesn't mean people can b**** and moan about how they aren't playing the game. I seriously doubt they were sipping their coffee and eating bagels and donuts while it was happening.

And no, I don't agree with the "yo, it's free, deal with it" mentality because you pulled that right out your ass with your hyperbole. What I meant was that just because Valve took away 12 hours of precious "doto time" doesn't mean you can b**** and moan. And I'm saying that the fact that's its free and already such a high quality polished game from what it originally was should be enough for most players to allow Valve a couple of extra hours to do their work. Maybe instead of expecting every single little thing to be delivered to you on a silver platter, you could take a look at the positives and just wait 1 extra day.

Really what you're trying to say is "I deserve the right to bash Valve for taking away 1 day of Dota from me, even though they left this game completely free, bar cosmetics which are totally optional, because they aren't up to the standard and quality of other paid games. Server Maintenance is just a waste of time and should be dealt with ASAP so I can get back to pwning noobs."

And I'm saying that the fact that's its free and already such a high quality polished game from what it originally was should be enough for most players to allow Valve a couple of extra hours to do their work. Maybe instead of expecting every single little thing to be delivered to you on a silver platter, you could take a look at the positives and just wait 1 extra day.