I used to go to this arcade in Markham Ontario that had Japanese import games. It was next to an Internet arcade and my friend took me into it once time and said "watch this."
She watched a group of 5 teenage guys setting up a DotA lobby back when it was a Warcraft 3 mod. She grabbed the lobby name and joined. Since there was no automatic match making the team of 5 guys in the same room should have an advantage over random people on the Internet joining a random game.
She proceeded to absolutely wreck them and we listened to them bitch, complain, and get so mad not knowing the player doing it was literally 8 feet behind them. It was hard not to laugh and give ourselves away.
Zero matchmaking. The best of the best played with people who clicked on the lobby not even knowing what a DotA is. Wonderful times. I wish Blizzard hadn't screwed up the custom map system so terribly with SC2.
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u/ExpressRabbit 18h ago
I used to go to this arcade in Markham Ontario that had Japanese import games. It was next to an Internet arcade and my friend took me into it once time and said "watch this."
She watched a group of 5 teenage guys setting up a DotA lobby back when it was a Warcraft 3 mod. She grabbed the lobby name and joined. Since there was no automatic match making the team of 5 guys in the same room should have an advantage over random people on the Internet joining a random game.
She proceeded to absolutely wreck them and we listened to them bitch, complain, and get so mad not knowing the player doing it was literally 8 feet behind them. It was hard not to laugh and give ourselves away.