Who here actually cares about DOTA2?

Dota 2 and the games a like put me off. People tend to get way into it, over the top rage levels and just over all poor people skills. I like the concept of online sport games for prizes but, when you sit down at a place that lets anyone pay 12 bucks for a full day of gaming and watch these people play LoL. I swear I've seen people nearly turn and punch the guy next to him playing Left 4 Dead 2.

That said, I wouldn't be against reading about the game because to be frank, I love games of all sorts and learning all I can about them so. I wouldn't mind to see what you bring to the table. Hell, might even change my opinion!

It's way better when you have friends who know what they're doing then going solo where you're literally at the mercy of dumb foreigners that have never heard of wards. Trust me, it's way better.

It is something that you get in all games, really. Especially in MOBA and FPS games .

The same can be said about larger game communities and playerbases. My brother plays a lot of EVE online and some of the player created corps are very civil and polite. The same is with some people on DotA and most other MOBA games - it depends entirely on who you happen to be playing with and weather they have a vague grasp on the English language on an English speaking matchmaking queue or not. Not that I have anything against Russians that feed, insist on insulting me throughout the entire game and are one of the many reasons why I'm in below 3000 on my ranked MMR, but there is a fair share of people that do speak English and are just as bad (me included, but I'm still learning).

So yeah, as I said - completely depends who you play with. I've played arena shooters like Quake III Arena and the Unreal Tournament series, and objective shooters like TF2. It was always with smaller communities of gamers or clans and they usually have been very fun to play with and had always been an all round positive social experience with them in general (tl;dr, i liked playing with them and making new friends). All I'll say is that if you look past the vitriol and the toxicity of some of the people that play MOBA games, calling you a noob faggot each time you feed, you will eventually find people who are just as polite that play MOBAs as your friends in the Mechwarrior Online community are.