Poll: Do you think games such as DOTA2 and League of Legends should have a casual play mode.

[The Forces of Chaos]

Um DOTA 2 has 2 casual modes.

Ability draft & single draft.

Also the Thicker Skin argument I will agree doesn't work in MOBA games. I've fond growing a far more spiky skin helps. I play support generally (AKA the role who gets least praise and most crapped on). My attitude has gone from thick skin and taking it to "Oh no you did not just throw a hissy fit at me" I've found it works far better with most allies that the moment I start getting shit, I throw it back ten times harder at them.

The general way it goes is

idiot "OMG report noob support no courier GG noob"

Me "I bought the wards"

Idiot "you're a support you buy the courier"

Me "get the other support to do it"

Idiot "There is no other support"

Me "Not my damn problem is it then"

Idiot "Yes you support you buy courier"

Me "No Me a support, me the support that buys wards"

Idiot "Buy courier idiot noobs support"

Me "Oh I'm the idiot am I, because out of the 4 of you, you couldn't figure it out to pick a second support and all wanted to carry"

Idiot "Reported Noob support, we only need 1 support"

Me "this isn't LOL you Noob Dota 2 standard is 2 supports, it's not my problem the 4 of you all picked selfish heavy farm dependent carries"

It generally deals with them well. I someone else is criticising others play I tell them to shut up and focus on their own play as then they'd not suck so much ass.

Or if someone really gets on my nerves I've drop all my support items and tell them to do the job and just go off to the jungle and farm. Sure we'll lose but sometimes annoying particularly vile players is worth the loss to force them to learn.

This is the truth right here. If you can't take the heat what the fuck are you doing in the kitchen? People complain to much about toxic this and toxic that or even worse Downgrade the hero/god/champion because I don't know how to deal with it.

 

[Jerast]

League of Legends is casual as fuck as it is.

Honestly when I see people bitching about getting shit talked in online games I wonder how people could possibly be such a wuss about what some random says on the internet.

 

[Valiance]

Aside from the obvious jokes to be made, I feel like it should be mentioned that LoL's Dominion and ARAM modes are even more casual than SR. Even TT isn't really as 'serious' - game lengths are much shorter and whatnot.

If you're asking for a casual mode in those games, I strongly suggest you do NOT try to play Heroes of Newerth.

You might enjoy Dawngate or Strife more than Heroes of the Storm, but they're all still MOBAs - just a little bit slower and easier.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

The thing is that MOBAs do have a Casual Game Mode...it's called Heroes of the Storm.

Ninja'd. About to say exactly the same thing after reading the OP. Easy mathmaking? Check. Shorter matches? Check. No potential for foul abuse from enemy team? Check.

LoL occasionally has "casual modes" in the form of their Featured Game Modes (URF, Hexakill, etc.). For some reason Riot decided that these game modes should be temporary -- they gave a half-arsed explanation, which really didn't justify it IMO [http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Featured_Game_Mode] -- and not a permanent feature. Those should really be implemented as a casual option accessible as a Custom game.

 

[Ariseishirou]

Uh... they already have that in LoL, at least. You play bots. It's almost impossible to lose, so nobody really abuses one another. Once you head into blind randoms, it's easy enough just to mute everyone if you find the community too toxic. You still see their pings and locations and whatnot so it's not like it affects gameplay and teamwork at all.

 

[spartan231490]

A more accessible gamemode? No, there's already a very accessible game mode(at least in LoL), it's called bots. The problem isn't accessibility but toxicity, and likely eliminating chat wouldn't even be enough to get rid of that. However, they should definitely do something. At least get the tribunal back.

I also think LoL could benefit from a more middling game option. Not necessarily a gametype that was more accessible, but one where people could go to blow off steam and not worry about wins/toxicity. A PvP gametype with no chat and where rewards were the same whether you won or lost and possibly with a disabled chat.

LoL could also probably cut some toxicity by assigning IP rewards to the honor system.