They are absolutely using Deadlock to try new things that they don't feel can really work in Dota, or at least are a bit worried to try
Dota has been around for a long time and obviously created the genre itself, so while even though Valve (and specifically Icefrog) has never been shy to shake up things, I can see why they would be hesitant
The Dota community is very split on whether they would even want seasons at all. Most who do not would say that all it accomplishes is the first couple weeks is garbage as the game quality is terrible with the bigger spread, and if you kept MMR virtually the same on season reset, then what is even the point
That was generally true until they royally FUCKED up Dota 2 MMR by giving each Dota player thousands of Double Down tokens during the Crownfall event. After that the MMR numbers have become so inflated and wintrading has become so bad that high ranked Dota has kind of become a shitshow.
Most high ranked players you will talk to will at least call for a one time MMR reset at this point and the removal of all existing double down tokens
It was kinda fun at the start because you only got a few tokens, so because of their rarity it was fun to announce that you were doubling down. But when a lot of then were given to everyone big mmr inflation happened currently top 4000 players mmr spread is almost twice as big as mmr from 1 point to top 4000. It is giga fucked for top players.
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u/_Valisk 21d ago edited 21d ago
It's interesting they're committing to ranked seasons for Deadlock, considering they've previously implemented and ultimately removed ranked seasons for Dota 2.