Reception ==
The reception of this article doesn't seem to take everyone's view into account. I see only positive viewpoints, and it ignores the rest of the WC3 fanbase, especially on East and Europe, where DotA has not completely taken over and there are vast amounts of players (Most of which happen to be less trollish, as becomes evident if one surveys the majority of DotA players with the "Brain-dead test" by requiring them to talk coherently. Kinda like /b, isn't it.) who simply detest the game for its rude community that now believes (Completely on west, and to a certain extent on other servers) that attacking new players for the simple fact that they are new, and booting downloaders without consideration or remorse. Non-moderated games are filled with leavers. And now the banlist extends to games other than DotA, where normal players may be banned for abusive reasons (Beating the host, using novel and effective non-cheating strategies, etc). DotA has overrun Battle.Net with a storm of absolute idiots. The intelligent fraction of DotA players does not nearly make up for the fact that now small, promising maps are being shoved aside by DotA (Look at Obsidian Depths. Look at Mana Clash. Look at Advent of the Zenith.) because it isn't to that community's preference.
I'm kind of shocked that there aren't more of this kind of stuff on the talk page, but I bet some's gotten deleted before. I'll check, and it better not be gone in a few days.

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