I wasn't a fan of the initial 7.0 launch either, but I really don't understand what you meant by "getting off the ground" and diminishing it as a mod. The base gameplay concepts are already genius, did you want them to completely remake the game or something? There's always been shit patches (I remember the original Centaur and Drow reworks in 6.76. If it wasn't fun to begin with, Dota 2 wouldn't exist in the first place.
Yeah to be clear, I love the classic DotA gameplay. And I played it a TON of Dota 2 early and really loved it, but I just don't like the direction the game has gone, and it's really turned me off the game as a whole. I will say I've been prone to snap judgements (like how 7.06 (i think that was the one) sort of instantly improved a lot of the stuff that went wrong gameplay wise from 7.0 but I still just wanted off the ride.
It's like Overwatch. Super fun game, great base concepts, cool as hell, but overall the meta has slowly creeped to something that just isn't very fun to play. That is, in my eyes, a failure on Blizzard's part. Other people may love Overwatch now and the direction it's gone in, and that's totally fine, it's just bad in my eyes.
So you think people cant enjoy things you dislike 🤣
nice bait
"this game isn't fun i'm right you're wrong hehe"
One person saying "this game is fun" and someone else saying "no its not I dont like it"
is literally the basis for all discussion of all art ever made. It's dumb, but that's opinions for you. And it's still better than "this is good because it made money. 700,000 concurrent players can't be wrong! Also Avatar is the best movies ever made. It's proven by science."
I'm totally fine with people loving Dota 2, CSGO, Steam.......... hell, you can be the biggest Artifact fan in the world if you want! (okay maybe not that). I just have other opinions about the quality of their recent output. If you want to say "oh actually Artifact is a super fun game because x" or "DOTA 2 has really improved actually because of x, y, and z" I'm totally willing to hear that. I disagree but that's totally fine. Saying "you're wrong because they make money!" is just really weird and pointless to me.