Perhaps it isn't the community that is so horrible--an equally "horrible" community must also play other games--but rather the method of playing a DotA game that emphasizes the bad apples in the community. If one of the ten players in a DotA game leaves early in the match, the other nine are more seriously impacted than in games in which players can join and leave as they wish.
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Perhaps it isn't the community that is so horrible--an equally "horrible" community must also play other games--but rather the method of playing a DotA game that emphasizes the bad apples in the community. If one of the ten players in a DotA game leaves early in the match, the other nine are more seriously impacted than in games in which players can join and leave as they wish.