sigh, im getting so tired of reading all these. first of all, before i start. just a small introduction of myself. i started playing DotA ever since version 2.17 till now. i dont support whacking people in public, but neither do i approve of retards spoiling the game. simple as that. personally to me, DotA is a fun game where u sit down with your mates and play, casually and hoping to get some laughs, and before i start my "short essay", ill define what DotA is, maybe thats what majority calls it.

DotA
1. Heavy Co-op team game
2. Spoilers are... bad
3. Malaysian DotA - goodness, no word to define it
4. Just a game =.=

from the term heavy co-op itself, it is definite that DotA welcomes professional or people with good temper and attitude in game. spoiler = GG

to me, out of 10 games played in public, there will be 8 games with leavers. most of them should be early game leavers around 15 minutes, where after being pawned, score shud be around 0 - 4, they will just leave immediately after being killed. my team and i, we always had a laugh and joke on how early there will be leavers, so we just gang up on them and walla, leavers. Basic Clan MyM techniques used. its sad that its so hard for us to just complete and finish one game, sportingly.

at the cafe where i use to hang out, it can be very frustrating even without playing dota. most of the time when its full, you can just hear all the vulgarities, which i prefer to hear in english, other than the term sohai, sei sohai, yada yada bla bla bla. i never knew what sohai is =.= other than direct translation into stupid *****. =)

do leavers deserve to be smacked? personally, nobody deserves to be smacked. its just a game. but then again, its a game that deserves respect to and from other players, hence why it is called e-sports.

try imagining yourself to be a hot tempered player. if a keeper of the light keep trying to spoil your game. example, getting a dagger and boots of travel, blasting to get vision and sight and blinking to unaccessible places and summoning players to him and leaving them there, not once but for the whole game. and best is, the opponents never bothered to kill the KOTL, where he will just walk past by them. does he deserve to be smacked? you be your own judge. i have no comments on that. i was on that KOTL's team, and i can say this for sure. i wish he would just leave my game

if dota is a stupid game, it would not survive time and make it to where it is now, standing at the top of tournament games. its just a matter of attitudes, and nobody loves to be insulted. never fire or shoot anything that will backfire on you. ill just keep quiet and wont type anything other than chat with friends, and neither will i type hero ms, because talking is better than typing. so do i deserve to be smacked for not reporting hero ms? i hope not.

enjoy the game, leavers or not, spoilers or not, always try to finish the game, and lose it sportingly, or win it graciously. that is what i personally believe, in any game, anything that we do, it is just ethics that matters.

p.s. feel free to correct me on any part that i missed out or if im wrong. its just a piece of my thought =)

This post has been edited by MuchentubunZ: Dec 3 2009, 12:18 PM