After greater than 2,000 hours in Dota 2, I’ve lastly been despatched to gamer jail for the primary time. It’s worse than I ever imagined, which makes it a particularly efficient deterrent in a aggressive sport the place teamwork is important. However now that I’ve been punished, I see that there’s a greater technique to administer multiplayer justice.

I had been happy with my good participant conduct rating since Valve launched the ranking system in 2019. (By the way in which, that’s a rating of 10,000, and it comes with a reassuring inexperienced smiley face once you’re doing effectively.) The rating is a unfastened measure of whether or not you’re an upstanding member of the participant neighborhood. When you’re reported rather a lot by your teammates or abandon video games earlier than they’re completed, your rating goes down. I…

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