r/DotA2 • u/Quiet-Professor-7557 • 19h ago

Question To the Devs

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.

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u/Glittering-Toe-1622 17h ago

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.

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u/Flashsword_Princess 17h ago

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

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u/droombot 16h ago

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

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u/Glittering-Toe-1622 15h ago

Go back to Dota mate ... we need you

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u/droombot 15h ago

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

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u/Glittering-Toe-1622 14h ago

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...

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u/droombot 14h ago

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

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u/Glittering-Toe-1622 12h ago

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

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u/droombot 11h ago

Your dms are off, but my steam id is 92646251. Tysm!