DOTA is such a beautiful game.
Anyone who’s ever played the Warcraft III mod, Defence of The Ancients, or DOTA, will attest to just how immersively challenging the game can be.
At times, and for a split second, it will suck you in as you forget that it’s all just a make believe world and you get all emotional while playing the game.
Still it is a very beautiful game, but unfortunately one that is tainted by leavers, gamers who purposely spoil the game and wreck the team balance by quitting early or halfway during the game — but mostly due to losing the early stage of the game.
The players who leave are usually those that are killed off after a couple of times, or those that sees no hope within a game.
And leavers are frowned upon with much disgust and hatred within the DOTA community, but the sad state is that it’s a prevalent action and only too common.
I am seriously disgusted by leavers, although I admit I may at have been guilty one or two times, but definitely never the first one to leave and spoil a good game, just because my team is losing.
This evening, my group of gamers bailed on me, as they left game after game, after game, much to my horror.
I mean, so what if our team is losing, cos it’s not over till it’s over — and there are ways to overcome a purple patch, like for example to play defensively when you know the opposing team has the upper hand.
There are tactics to overcome an overwhelming opposing team and sadly, my team today didn’t seem to have the guts to overcome anything.
It was sad to see them quit on me, but mainly because I know that together we make a damn good team.
In my thoughts whenever they left or quitted, I doo sense a lack of responsibility on their part.
It’s just a game, why can’t you just continue and adjust tactics instead of spoiling the game?
Granted there have been tremendously awesome games, where a team is forced to defend and defend and defend but finally clinching victory — and such is the beauty of DOTA, that is there’s always that chance and you are never out of the game.
It’s a team game, and anything can happen, and mistakes DO happen a lot.
The only surest way to lose in dota is when your team comprises of quitters who dump the team in a hurry, and as cliche as it may sound, quitters never win.
I somehow sense that the way they players react during games reflect their characters and personalities — and I secretly wonder if players who quit the game in such circumstances are likely to throw in the towel whenever things aren’t going their way.
Wait no, I’m not labeling my team as real life quitters or losers, but I like to think that there is a portion of them that secretly runs away whenever the going gets tough.
I know it’s easier to talk about it, but I’ve been through situations where one’s endurance and patience are tested to its limits, especially during my NS period, and witness first hand accounts of quiiters myself.
Needless to say, they never achieved much during their tenure and most of the time they end up complaining about their lack of luck or moan about the system.
No, I’m not the strongest or smartest person there is, and seriously I know that i’m not, but I do know my limits and I know that no matter what, it’s just a game and in games, there is always a possility of turning the tide.
And it’s damn satisfying too whenever the tide shifts, but leavers wrecks and disintegrates every meaning of fun from of it.
So instead of quitting to other’s chagrin, I would rather lose gracefully, knowing that I’ve been defeated by a better team.
And I have been beaten by many better teams plenty of times.
So yes, I’ll acknowledge whenever there is a better adversary in Dota, where it is as much a great game as it is a personality test.
DOTA, such a painfully beautiful game.
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