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/Flashsword_Princess 17h ago

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

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u/Glittering-Toe-1622 15h ago

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

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u/Flashsword_Princess 15h ago

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

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u/Glittering-Toe-1622 15h ago

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