Singapore's second most outrageous gaming community is probably the DotA community. This can be entirely attributed to the fact that you can actually hack in DotA, and these hacks directly affect other players unlike hacks in MapleStory or the like where it only indirectly affects you. The most outrageous, I believe, is the MapleStory community, not because of hacks but because of the sheer stupidity. Everyday you can watch people spend money buying @Cash-bought megaphones spamming insults at each other, its quite ridiculous how the amount of money in each persons pocket is tantamount to how powerful they are in MapleStory. And the only time I heard some sensible person say "I'm not going to waste money arguing with you," the reply he got was something along the lines of "No money dun talk lol nub!".
Absolutely. Ridiculous.
Well, obviously I'm here to talk about the DotA community and Singapore Gamers in general, because who gives two shits about the people who play MapleStory and take it seriously to the point where they spend money just to insult other people, amirite?
So. Two things to talk about. Maphackers as well as those who accuse, and the senseless flamers.
I can deal with people delaying the game, it just makes me go do something else. I can deal with people sucking, some people just aren't good at the game but want to have fun, sure - though if you're doing it on purpose then you deserve to rot in a pit. I think the worst kind of player in DotA is definitely the hacker. The hacker outranks every other stupid person in Singapore, solely because hes playing a game not to have fun, not to get better at it, not to be good at something. Whether he realizes it or not, hes playing for the sole reason to build his ego by pushing others down under him. I absolutely hate these, I mean, it's not like it'll affect your life and that's why you got to cheat. It's a freaking game, come on, if you get serious and improve at it, the satisfaction will be much better than if you just hacked to victory.
It's disgusting - that's what I think.
Another thing related to hackers is those that randomly accuse others of hacking. Well, this is more of a spur of the moment addition since I was just accused of maphacking in my last game. The person accusing me of maphacking? I believe it was the entire enemy team, consisting of a Bane Elemental, Techies, Pudge and Rikimaru. With that team, there are many reasons as to why they could say I was maphacking. Dodging mines? Dodging surprise hooks? The first accusation was totally random. I was in middle lane farming, and because Pudge had gone to top rune, I was hanging towards the right side of the middle lane river so that I couldn't be hooked from the hill on Sentinel side mid lane. I was then accused of maphacking. Following that was a series of accusations involving Pudge being invisible and stalking one of our players towards our inner tower, and we just happened to be there because we were defending, and he said that 'Wow! You all just
happened to be there waiting for me!' Yeah, no shit. We were defending your own push, dumbass.
Anyway, the final thing I want to talk about is the senseless flamers.
Actually, there's not much to say. Just... if you're going to insult, have some basis, yeah?
-Haruhiist