Should Dota 2 allow you to give up?

The game is never over until the Ancient falls. Yes, sometimes you have to deal with fountain camping. Boo hoo.

MatthewFu

Fountain camping isn’t the worst, because unless they somehow got there without killing your barracks, the creeps will push on their own. What’s worse is when they deliberately use abilities to slow down their own creep wave, or pull them off into the jungle.

ClementBilhorn

Yeah I tried moving over from LoL to Dota 2 and while I agree that Dota 2 is more polished and I find it better, I stopped playing because I didn’t have enough friends to play with and in most matches up to three people would just AFK at some point.

JoãoMorais Only in ranked to avoid trolling.

RianDuarte

The ‘surrender’ argument is one that separates the mentalities of the playerbase. I will NEVER give up on a match. Will we still lose? Most of the time, yes. But that isn’t the point. The point, to me, is FIGHT ’TIL YOUR LAST BREATH. Make them EARN the win to the last second.

So go ahead and whine about surrendering. I’ll be fighting and

giving it everything I’ve got while you AFK in base.

And maybe, just maybe, that little extra effort will pay dividends in future games by teaching you to not give up, to fight with your back against the ropes, whether it is a gank attempt or a full-blown team fight, and to always give the other team hell.

BrettDent

Or you could leave the game and start another one if you’re confident you don’t want to continue. I could play two games in the time it took to lose a single game, meaning more practice, meaning I can get better at the fundamentals. A win rarely teaches people the correct way to play, a loss (if used properly) can open doors you didn’t even know existed.

WilliamGrayson

Surrender is for LOL players.

LouisJoy

Yes but not in the first 15 minutes. And it should be a five-player unanimous decision.

TonyMartine I think the forfeiting is the one thing in LoL I like more than Dota. I hate sitting in the fountain getting killed for 15 minutes just because I don’t want to go to low priority.

AdamHearst

NO. Just NO.

RhadsonMendoza

Coming from HoN and LoL I can say, without a shred of doubt, that having a surrender option is awful and people will be forced into giving up early.

I have over 2,000 hours of Dota 2 under my belt, and I’ve had tonnes of comebacks that would never have happened with a surrender button.

There should only be an option for surrendering in five stacks.

BradWarren