I'm currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Games Design and Interactive Entertainment at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and one of my units is "Computer Games Studies". Naturally our practical sessions give us a chance at playing games we don't own so we can get a broader general knowledge of games without having to go on a spending spree. Instead we mostly play CS:S, WoW and DotA.
In my practical classes of about 30-40 people, the noisiest, rantiest and most foul mouthed are the DotA players. Seriously they outclass even the ragiest of CS:S players I've come across in all my gaming experience. I've never played DotA though so I have no idea why. Could someone fill me in as to why this game seems to induce temporary Tourette's Syndrome in players?
Today, I was sitting at a computer next to a girl playing DotA, minding my own business with some TF2, when she starts crying. I looked over and on her screen was a little message from someone saying something along the lines of "OMFG YOU REALLY SUCK! SERIOUSLY, UR SHIT JUST STOP PLAYING NOW KTHXBYE".
I know that gamerage is a normal part of online multiplayer games as I have suffered from it on more than one occasion but what the hell is in DotA that drives people to this? Someone fill me in please?
In my practical classes of about 30-40 people, the noisiest, rantiest and most foul mouthed are the DotA players. Seriously they outclass even the ragiest of CS:S players I've come across in all my gaming experience. I've never played DotA though so I have no idea why. Could someone fill me in as to why this game seems to induce temporary Tourette's Syndrome in players?
Today, I was sitting at a computer next to a girl playing DotA, minding my own business with some TF2, when she starts crying. I looked over and on her screen was a little message from someone saying something along the lines of "OMFG YOU REALLY SUCK! SERIOUSLY, UR SHIT JUST STOP PLAYING NOW KTHXBYE".
I know that gamerage is a normal part of online multiplayer games as I have suffered from it on more than one occasion but what the hell is in DotA that drives people to this? Someone fill me in please?