2011-08-18, 10:17 PM
Dusk Wrote:First of all, DotA is a game that is simply designed to be hardcore and punishing, similar to many other eSports, such as Brood War.
I find this a bit funny as most of the mechanics in DotA/2 nowadays weren't discovered for a good while, so saying it was initially designed to be as such is misleading. It evolved over the years to be this "Hardcore and punishing", but it never started off like that whatsoever.

