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xboy

    I had an archon 2 or something in my friends list and he was asking me how to climb rank. I could tell he wanted to rank up as badly as me from the way we were talking. I dont really have fun anymore except when I totally anal kids.

    What if they removed all medals below ancient? As in you have your mmr but can only see it you reach 3k or 4k or shit even 5k, because I had the most fun playing dota before MMR came out. I still tried to get good and win but after mmr came out it was just different and now the new kids play 100 games go straight into ranked and fall into the trap of wanting to reach divine.

    Ritsu x boni = 0 IQ

      xD why would someone play this game to rank up, unless you are aiming to be a pro, i see no reason to tryhard and climb up in this game

      Oldman

        ^ to have a big e-peen and show off blue star. And I respect that. It takes much more than just being good at the game to reach divine.

        SASA POPOVIC

          Epenis why else, so you can trashtalk plebs with medal under, ? Why do you aim for expensive car, hot girlfriend, big house, take pictures on vacation/expensive restaurants? Its all the same, to show off.

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          SaronMoran

            I reached divine... now I just want to get higher :( it never ends!¬

            Dragy10

              i dont see a trap into wanting to reach devine, it is just natural for humans to want the highest possible value they think is reachable and devine seems to be the platform where non-professional can come with some motivation and practice

              I just don't see a reason for it since the rank/mmr is worthless if your goal is not to be noticed by professional teams

              mmr per se is not bad at all, on the contrary, it makes you compete with players at your skill level, the only thing skewing it are smurfs who either fail to get a match for too long and therefor start destroying other peoples matches or they simply want to feel superior and play against someone who has not had as much high level exposure to dota as they had

              improving isn't a reason to play the game different tho, it is the reason to play the game
              the game is per definition competitive, it has in its description difficult and competitive and not casual for a reason

              you can avoid improving tho, but if you are even playing with your friends, after a while they will start compaining if you are not improving or regressing(more likely to happen)

              You can also listen to the people who tell you fairytales about how they "only play for fun". Ask them to define what is fun and what they think the goal of the game is or should be, if they don't say to destroy the other teams throne, they are ignorant
              if they say to destroy the throne you can aks them how will not playing good help them do it

              tl;dr
              #1 reason to play this game is to get better at it, your friend wanting to climb ranks is just him playing the game

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              Suck my tiny curry dick

                Half the time I play to annoy my own teammates and watch them rage. It’s pretty fun and funny.

                Javad

                  @op mmr IS a system that has the surface of quantifying skills (as humans tend to wanna turn complex stuff into numbers). But another thing is does is now that u have a "clear way" of knowing ur skill, as human nature u wanna get better. So effectively valve made a system that makes players nore addicted to just wanna get good at the game way more than natural.

                  @herald smurf. Super important thing right there. The problem with ppl is most of em never do things out of their own intentions most poeple are super reactive and not proactive at all. This means u'r not living based on free will u'r living based on marketing industry's will. So basically u wanna gain mmr cuz gaben set it up for u to do so and u never asked "what's my end goal with this game" so u just go through the process. (U being general not specifically u ofc)

                  @dragy10 said beautifully

                  And im sorry bryant

                  Altaire

                    The thing is, expensive car(s), big house, and hot gf are there to make your life more convenient and enjoyable, not necessarily to be showed off

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                    Dragy10

                      Expensive cars, big houses and hot gf fall under society status. That has nothing to do with convenience but rather improving on the social ladder
                      Their purpose is exclusively to show off.

                      An expensive car tends to make your risk of driving to fast higher and maintaining it will drain your cash.
                      Ask anyone who owns an expensive car.
                      You should rather go for a safe car instead which aren't as expensive as you think.
                      A hot gf might only make your life more complicated.
                      She might also become promiscuous leading to more stress on your behalf.
                      You should rather go for a soul mate instead who doesn't rely on being hot but matching your character instead.
                      A big house makes you a target for robbers and is very time consuming to maintain.
                      You should rather go for a small house in a nice location.

                      Going big doesn't mean always going for the better option.
                      Same thing with the skill story -> maybe you don't want to compete on a higher level and you just want to do shenanigans with your friends and to make them rage. This depends on your life goals and what makes you tick.
                      Being among the top players will lead you to be harrassed more in game and probably even out of the game if people know your real life existance.

                      In the end it probably depends on how you define convenient and enjoyable.

                      edit:
                      I had to rewrite this to understand what I wrote :D

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                      Javad

                        Ye basically a combination of personal philosophy and social conditioning