Did you guys come from HoN, LoL, or DOTA 1?

[Adriac]

Or did you start with Dota 2?

[Nanomashines SOn]

diablo - warcraft - dota - garena dota - hon - dota 2

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

My first proper MOBA was Bloodline Champions, a PvP arena MOBA that was recently rebooted as Battlerite, sadly without success. When I signed up for the Dota 2 Closed Beta in 2012, I had no idea what I was in for. It's been the most fun and the most frustrating game I've played.

[The 3 Whites]

I started with dota2 . Have seen some minutes in tv about tournament and all the people was so excited that i gave it a try.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

First Moba after playing FPS

[majzerofive]

Garena war3, dota 2, LOL, HOTS, dota 2.
War 3 was a legendary game for its times, dota 2 was nice at the beginning. All three are garbage right now. Dota 2 is too anime-like, LOL is even more of a children's game and HOTS is too easy after any other.

[Stan]

Start one day dota 2 out of curiosity and now i play it ones a year when ever BP drops.

[RadCon One]

Originally posted by majzerofive:

Dota 2 is too anime-like

There is a single skin to a single character linked to an anime. If that is your biggest complaint then Dota is doing amazing.

[N͎M͎O͎T͎H͎]

I came from Minecraft lol

[BossGalaga]

There's an amazing amount of sub-1k mmr players on these forums that swear they're DotA 1/Allstars veterans and yet somehow don't seem to have gotten the hang of some of the game's most basic concepts, largely including game mechanics shared between DotA and Dota 2.

I played a little DotA but I wouldn't refer to myself as a "veteran." Personally, I enjoyed Starcraft Pokemon much more.

[Nanomashines SOn]

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

There's an amazing amount of sub-1k mmr players on these forums that swear they're DotA 1/Allstars veterans and yet somehow don't seem to have gotten the hang of some of the game's most basic concepts, largely including game mechanics shared between DotA and Dota 2.

I played a little DotA but I wouldn't refer to myself as a "veteran." Personally, I enjoyed Starcraft Pokemon much more.

didnt read veteran a single time.
even if people are successfull in dota allstars, doesnt mean d2 is the same.
much different algorythm and meta.

you are only singing the same song all the time "you guys are bad, its not the system its you, you fail you bad" making people try hard in dota ;)
trust me, they can have great success in similar games.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by Fistmaster 3k (pos 3):

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

There's an amazing amount of sub-1k mmr players on these forums that swear they're DotA 1/Allstars veterans and yet somehow don't seem to have gotten the hang of some of the game's most basic concepts, largely including game mechanics shared between DotA and Dota 2.

I played a little DotA but I wouldn't refer to myself as a "veteran." Personally, I enjoyed
Starcraft Pokemon much more.

didnt read veteran a single time.
even if people are successfull in dota allstars, doesnt mean d2 is the same.
much different algorythm and meta.

You were just posting in another thread today where a 300 mmr player is claiming to be a DotA 1/Allstars "veteran" as a reason why he shouldn't be a 300 mmr player. If he's a 300 mmr player in Dota 2 then there's no way that he was much better in DotA 1 or that he played it at all. I don't expect every person who has ever played DotA 1/Allstars to be an immortal or pro tier player but if they're going to call themselves a "veteran" then they should have enough experience and skill to climb out of Herald after thousands of hours.

[Nanomashines SOn]

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

Originally posted by Fistmaster 3k (pos 3):

didnt read veteran a single time.
even if people are successfull in dota allstars, doesnt mean d2 is the same.
much different algorythm and meta.

You were just posting in another thread today where a 300 mmr player is claiming to be a DotA 1/Allstars "veteran" as a reason why he shouldn't be a 300 mmr player. If he's a 300 mmr player in Dota 2 then there's no way that he was much better in DotA 1 or that he played it at all. I don't expect every person who has ever played DotA 1/Allstars to be an immortal or pro tier player but if they're going to call themselves a "veteran" then they should have enough experience and skill to climb out of Herald after thousands of hours.

dota allstars is a different game, different meta, aghs, skill builds, no talents,. more fighting. sk was one of the best.
please download one of the classic dota allstar maps. you will get stomped first 1k hours until you even see all the differences.
I know professional, as high ranked players that could not adapt to DotA 2 or did not like the Meta.

[[ℂ☆]NowMyTurN]

ı played dota 1 . Eurobattle , wepla ,iccup now ı am here. but This dota 2 pay to fun.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by Fistmaster 3k (pos 3):

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

You were just posting in another thread today where a 300 mmr player is claiming to be a DotA 1/Allstars "veteran" as a reason why he shouldn't be a 300 mmr player. If he's a 300 mmr player in Dota 2 then there's no way that he was much better in DotA 1 or that he played it at all. I don't expect every person who has ever played DotA 1/Allstars to be an immortal or pro tier player but if they're going to call themselves a "veteran" then they should have enough experience and skill to climb out of Herald after thousands of hours.

dota allstars is a different game, different meta, aghs, skill builds, no talents,. more fighting. sk was one of the best.
please download one of the classic dota allstar maps. you will get stomped first 1k hours until you even see all the differences.
I know professional, as high ranked players that could not adapt to DotA 2 or did not like the Meta.

So you're arguing that DotA required more skill than Dota 2, but at the same time you're defending Dota 2 players who claim to be DotA 1 veterans "stuck" in low Herald.

At this point, the original DotA playerbase largely consists of hardcore players and given the fact that there's no official mmr-based matchmaking in DotA then obviously new players would have a bad time trying to play DotA now.

You claim that you know many "professional, high ranked players" from DotA couldn't adjust to Dota 2. Name one of those "professional, high ranked" original DotA players who also claim that they're unfairly stuck in sub-500 mmr in Dota 2. Because I haven't seen professional DotA 1/Allstars players claiming that. In fact, many of them transitioned from being professional DotA players to being professional Dota 2 players.

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