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Dota 2 [Steam] has been through a small evolution in the matchmaking to hopefully improve the experience for everyone.

Everyone who wants to do ranked matchmaking now has to have a verified phone number on their Steam account. Accounts cannot share a number and free services available online for it are blocked, so this will help reduce troll accounts for sure. You can't simply remove a number and attached it to a different account, as it will give you a three-month waiting period.

An older feature for solo players has returned: The ability to pick if you want to be matched against only people playing solo.

Players frequently dumped into the low-priority queue for being toxic in some form, will now get longer bans if they are repeatedly in the low-priority. This is a change I personally like, as it will help to stop crap behaviour in a rather terrible community.

They also added in some form of detection for bot accounts and issued permanent bans for a large number of accounts found with it. They also added better detections for people intentionally throwing games ruining the experience for the rest of the team.

See the full changelog here. I really like this update, as someone who has put 500+ hours into Dota 2 I always want to play more, but the community constantly puts me off. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Tags: MOBA, Steam | Apps: Dota 2
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UltraAltesBrot Apr 30, 2017
Quoting: GuestSecond old phone?!? [...]
Stop constructing fictional scenarios that don't exist and claim them to be the reason Dota 2 will be financially unseccessful because of a declining playerbase. It won't.

Quoting: GuestYou want to talk about security?
No.

Quoting: GuestYou know you can do something without the need of phone numbers and phone application? [...]
Doesn't matter what alternatives would be possible, beacuse Valve already has great security measures in place.

Quoting: GuestYou know that giving people free skins is making them stay despite the fact that the community is not great despite the fact that the games are often one sided?
You seem to be one of those "gg"-spammers after 10mins when it seems to you the game is impossible to win, although it's not. Of course it's always the other's fault you're losing, never your own. Games are rarely one-sided all the way through. Furthermore is winning not the requirement for a game to be good or fun.


Rest is just unintelligible gibberish or offtopic.
UltraAltesBrot May 1, 2017
Quoting: Guestinteresting because next you write the following:[...]
I underminded my previous statement with that.
Quoting: Guestcan you please decide if you want to talk about security or not.
Sigh, though this should be more than clear now: No.
I won't even bother reading the rest of your post, it will only be more unintelligible gibberish again.
Liam Dawe May 1, 2017
Oh wow, you guys are still going? :D *ducks for cover*
deikatsuo May 5, 2017
test.. this is my first comment in GOL (y)

Dota2 was greats game indeed. and we all loves valve
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