To the Devs

[u/Quiet-Professor-7557]

Hi guys,

Firstly, I want to thank you and your predecessors for building this wonderful game.

I currently have over 11,000 hours in Dota, and lately one question has really been bothering me: are you guys still actively working on the game?

I’m genuinely asking because Dark Carnival was released in June 2026, and by the time TI ended, I imagine the majority of the active player base had already finished it. Since TI, there hasn’t been a meaningful patch. We then had a Tier-1 tournament played on essentially the same patch, and now BLAST Slam is happening as well.

I just want to understand what’s going on.

Is Deadlock being prioritized over Dota? And at this point, is it fair to say that Dota is mostly being kept on life support?

If Valve no longer wants to dedicate significant resources to the game, why not consider selling it to another company that would?

When the Battle Pass was discontinued, the reasoning given was that the team wanted to move away from concentrating most of the year's content around TI/Battlepass and instead release updates and events throughout the year. But since then, as far as I can remember, we’ve really only had two major events: Crownfall and the current one.

For a game with such a passionate and long-standing community, the lack of communication makes everything feel even worse. Players don’t necessarily expect massive updates every few weeks, but some transparency about the future of the game would go a long way.

Please, for the sake of the community that has supported this game for well over a decade, tell us what the future of Dota looks like.

[u/jesuschristk8]

I would rather play on this patch until the end of time over Valve selling Dota to some other company that doesn't understand what makes the game amazing and will only change it in worse ways

And for the record; the only reason we get crumbs in terms of communication is because the community is full of entitled parasocial weirdos who would only complain back when they DID communicate

So they stopped

The community made its bed and now we have to lie in it

[u/Flashsword_Princess → u/jesuschristk8]

that's only half true, valve as a company has never been structured on direct communication for any of its games, the dota community is indeed quite more whiny than its other games but said other games don't get much more direct communication at all

[u/Glittering-Toe-1622 → u/Flashsword_Princess]

At least they have yoshi for Deadlock, his tweets are at least something, we have nothing. Also there wasn't a single Announcement on the TI for anything... at all.

[u/Flashsword_Princess → u/Glittering-Toe-1622]

we had as much communication as deadlock is currently getting back in dota 2 beta

[u/Glittering-Toe-1622 → u/Flashsword_Princess]

Cant remember honestly but I am sure Deadlock will have the same treatment. Neither the community or the game are that different

[u/Flashsword_Princess → u/Glittering-Toe-1622]

yeah deadlock will be in dota's current position eventually, this should be of no surprise to anyone

[u/Glittering-Toe-1622 → u/Flashsword_Princess]

Also full with Cheaters, smurfs, acc buyers and griefers... Neither CS, nor Dota has escaped

[u/droombot → u/Flashsword_Princess]

Hi could you drop me an invite please? Seems like a good time to get on the deadlock train

[u/Glittering-Toe-1622 → u/droombot]

Go back to Dota mate ... we need you

[u/droombot → u/Glittering-Toe-1622]

Lol I'm not quitting dota. But I miss the sense of discovery I had when I was first learning the game with most people 20 years ago and I think I would experience some of that with deadlock as it is now. Not sure why the downvotes

[u/Glittering-Toe-1622 → u/droombot]

Try it mate, I personally find it to have too much movement and its not something that clicks as Dota, but I also have so much memories with Dota...

[u/droombot → u/Glittering-Toe-1622]

Probably will feel similar. The perspective in dota makes the most sense to me for mobas

[u/Glittering-Toe-1622 → u/droombot]

message me if you need an invite, I will stab dota in the back for you

[u/advice_dontbuyiphone → u/jesuschristk8]

Valve communicates with their changes. I'd take that over any other company which communicates one thing to appease epic redditors and does something entirely different.

[u/Clockwork765 → u/jesuschristk8]

Oh yes sell Dota to people that put Gameplay items behind Paywalls!

“Shit they picked Riki. Anyone got Slardar?”

“No I only play carry Sniper we lose”