as not seen on r/DotA2 because censorship #322

 Valve has invested a ton not in new dev blood, not in better servers, but in psychologists and market researchers. And those have foreseen the direction Dota is going 3-4 years ago - mmr stagnation leading to frustration, cosmetics eventually getting boring / dropping glance value, events reaching unsustainable level for various reasons (incoming TI10 Kiev, presented by RUHub).

 It's not a recent "effort" towards attracting new players - it goes way back. And when you see Dota growth coming only from CIS and SA, you tend to look away on the down-sides such as low trust (ex. acc sharing since most play in icafes), anti-game behavior, affinity towards cheating, or language barrier - because they spend on Steam. In fact, cheat users overlap perfectly with big spenders. You can't simply do the same as in CS:GO - ban and expect them to buy the game again on new accounts. Nothing of "lasting value" is lost in CS:GO that you did not trade away already. On the other hand, maybe years of (exclusive) cosmetics, of ranking up (a lot harder to do on your main), of pride and accomplishment from 1k+ compendiums, is lost in Dota. Can't expect banned players to spend again on the same cosmetics, or even buying again Compendiums - on the contrary - it's a psychological thing differentiating the two genres.

 There is simply no will to deal with them. As for the *shadowbanning*, it's baffling that it was implemented in their favor! Case study: EU. Soviets queuing EU E/W exclusively. EU West shielded for years from meeting them. EU East cannon fodder ground. EU North not even acknowledged. All soviets grouped together 99.99%, hence 1,2,3 even 4, 5 cheaters in the same team. EZ games. Add more soviets. Bleed out in the enemy team. Proceed to throw games in favor of your fellow soviets (that's how feed mid started). EU East natives quitting more and more. Bleed more soviets in the mix to keep queue times. Dota dying. (the same shit happened to US with peruvians or SEA with pinoys).