Riki is rather easy if you shut him down early game, but he will get farm no matter what. Puck is great to blink in, silence, ulti, orb + phase shift out.
I don't know if it is still in Dota 2, but you used to be able (if you were fast enough) to die while you sent out orb, buy back and port to it. I know you can hook with Pudge just before getting sent back by Chen and drag the person all the way back to the well.
Riki is rather easy if you shut him down early game, but he will get farm no matter what. Puck is great to blink in, silence, ulti, orb + phase shift out.
I don't know if it is still in Dota 2, but you used to be able (if you were fast enough) to die while you sent out orb, buy back and port to it. I know you can hook with Pudge just before getting sent back by Chen and drag the person all the way back to the well.
Solo queue is more suffer in Dota than HoN. At least, in HoN I can dominate gank and they all concede at 15 minutes.
So, I've been silenced... Maybe Valve should stop queuing me with morons and I wouldn't be so abrasive.
That thread is hilarious!
Just had a game as Drow. I hate her so much, but when she gets going...
Got the chance to get a 5 minute Midas in that game. Never been in a lane with uncontested free farm before.
Yeah. I'm a bit conflicted. On the one hand the OP is a complete douchebag and he deserves everything and anything he gets. On the other hand, it is an abuse of power and a bit discriminatory for him to be singled out for such an extended punishment simply because a Valve employee happened to be there.
Probably what happened was more than a few people reported chronic verbal abuser... then during match making, a Valve employee qued in with abuser to see if it was true. Once he verified he was a chronic abuser - gave him a fair warning - the chronic abuser lite up on him then he issued him the silence/ban-hammer...
At least it confirms Valve is actually doing stuff to make the Dota community better - I remember back in in the days (before high speed internet for homes) when someone raged at me, my friends and I would just drive over to the PC Cafe and donkey punched him...
If someone leaves your game, and it states stats are no longer counted, does it count as a win or a loss? I have had quite a few games where someone, on my team always, leaves right away.
I got silenced for 24 hours because, I guess, I will yell at my team for doing stupid stuff and they don't like it. Well, when I tell you to stop auto attacking the creeps as Furion or at least push the tower properly, and you don't, you deserve it.
What is most likely to have happened is the Valve employee got butthurt someone didn't believe his was a Valve employee. The "I work at <insert company that makes the game we're playing> and am going to ban you!" stopped being popular in like 2001.
I got silenced for 24 hours because, I guess, I will yell at my team for doing stupid stuff and they don't like it. Well, when I tell you to stop auto attacking the creeps as Furion or at least push the tower properly, and you don't, you deserve it.
If someone leaves your game, and it states stats are no longer counted, does it count as a win or a loss? I have had quite a few games where someone, on my team always, leaves right away.
The Valve employee could have obviously used the mute feature. What a douchenozzle.
The dickhead could have obviously used what limited powers of self-control he possessed and not been a complete and total douchebag. What a dickwad.
True - I have to laugh at that thread. Dude was an obvious jackass.
Regardless, what does the community benefit from having a guy muted for 2 months? "Oh, someone was mean to me on the internet so I'ma show him!" <2 month ban> That is a bit excessive in pretty much all cases. Now, I didn't see what he said, but I suspect it couldn't have been that bad. And after reading the pastebin of what I assume was the game in question, the guy said nothing really that bad, and someone else was trolling him all game. If the Valve employee was the guy spamming 'jajajaja' like some Brazilian, and then silenced the guy for responded negatively, well Valve is not getting another dollar from me.
Having someone muted hurts the community more than someone being mean does. Half of my games already have people without mics, and if they couldn't talk, it would be complete suffer.
Well 2 months is excessive, it sends a message that is very loud and clear. Don't be a dick. That is the thing with this community, people believe it is ok to be a dick to others and guess what? No, it is not.
But it doesn't send any message except to him and his friend. And even then, that message is "don't flame Valve employees because the ban will be much harsher than if you insulted a random person". If the OP hadn't took the effort to whine about being banned (in completely the wrong place and in the wrong way), nobody would know.
Yes, the guy who got banned deserved to be silenced, but not for 2 months unless he had already been silenced for 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, whatever. It can't just be arbitrarily handed out. Not to mention, I've seen things incredibly worse than what the OP said. If Valve feels their staff should be treated with respect, they should be identifiable.
The punishment for assaulting a police officer is much higher than a normal person, but that is only in the capacity they identify themselves (includes them wearing the uniform / badge). If they are in civilian clothes, they are just a regular person.
The Valve employee should have used the report system like everyone else. Either give them special colored names or a [Valve] tag or stop pretending they should be some kind of sleeper agents that can mute you for 2 months.
He literally said this in the complaint thread
"This game is LITERALLY unplayable for 6 days because I don't want to play with faggots"
Yeah, I don't feel sorry for him.
I never said I felt sorry for him. But, the Valve employee was being awful at Dota; which is what I suspect this is really about: employee gets flamed for feeding and deals out an excessive punishment because is butthurt over it.
But it doesn't send any message except to him and his friend. And even then, that message is "don't flame Valve employees because the ban will be much harsher than if you insulted a random person". If the OP hadn't took the effort to whine about being banned (in completely the wrong place and in the wrong way), nobody would know.
Yes, the guy who got banned deserved to be silenced, but not for 2 months unless he had already been silenced for 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, whatever. It can't just be arbitrarily handed out. Not to mention, I've seen things incredibly worse than what the OP said. If Valve feels their staff should be treated with respect, they should be identifiable.
The punishment for assaulting a police officer is much higher than a normal person, but that is only in the capacity they identify themselves (includes them wearing the uniform / badge). If they are in civilian clothes, they are just a regular person.
The Valve employee should have used the report system like everyone else. Either give them special colored names or a [Valve] tag or stop pretending they should be some kind of sleeper agents that can mute you for 2 months.
Being awful at dota isn't a crime. Besides, 99% of the players are awful compared to the top 1%, including probably everyone posting in this thread.
On the other hand, trash talking your own team is something that can lead to being muted.
I don't think it is so much a case of being punished more for trashing a valve employee. Rather I think if it's just the fact that a valve employee witness the trash talk first hand that led to the more severe punishment.