Dota 2

I recommend against trying this game on the off chance you become addicted. From what I can tell that chance is about 1 in 10. I had to quit. I had to quit watching other people playing it, too. To me, it really was the most fun game I have ever played.

A lot of the recent updates - at least, before I quit a few months ago - made the game worse. At the time I wrote a list of changes I would make to the game; mostly streamlining the game by removing mechanics - sometimes new ones, sometimes old ones that had been in the game since Dota 1. I dont hate all the new additions; Rosh dropping refresher was cool, and having something like shrines or outposts to TP to during the midgame I thought was great. But most of the new additions would at least be altered.

Here's the list:
Changes I would make to Dota
- Remove neutral items
- Outposts no longer give XP, dont give vision and cant be converted, theyre just there to TP to
- Outposts are destructible after you destroy any one of those little filler buildings in the enemy base
- (Also remove the filler buildings close to the edge of the base)
- Reduce the money and XP you get for ending a killstreak
- No longer start with any TP scrolls
- TP scrolls have no initial cooldown
- Remove respawn penalty for denying yourself to neutrals early on
- Wards cost a bit of money, say 50
- Remove personal couriers, now each team has 2 couriers from the start
- (Maybe put some indications on courier control so its hard to accidentally mess with one of the couriers when someone else is using it)
- Add side shop again, it barely has any items but it definitely has boots and TP scroll
- Stop Roshan dropping Aghs buff
- Roshan now only ever drops 2 items, 1 of them is always Aegis and the other alternates between Cheese and Refresher (second Rosh is always Cheese, third is Refresher, etc.)
- Everyone has 10 less base move speed
- Aghs shard no longer has the 20 minute purchase restriction
- Make Aghs shard cost a little more, say 1500
- Nerf the Aghs shards that help you farm to compensate (Storm, QOP, Naga, Gyro, TB (not AA though leave that be (make mid AA great again)))
- Make a button to centre camera on currently selected unit (I dont think this exists, I know you can centre on one of your units youve given a group bind but not for one you have unbound, such as a random illusion you just tabbed to)
- Remove uphill miss chance, make it so uphill attacks always do 25% less damage
- Remove blink upgrades

Changes I want to make but dont know how
- Make solo-offlane/jungle/trilanes/duo-mid viable again (make more lane setups viable)
- Make it so you no longer get shafted at power runes for guessing which rune will spawn incorrectly

i'm like 3.8k rating and still every time i queue up for this game it makes me want to kill myself