To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to play Dota2 at a high MMR. The tactics are extremely intricate, and without a solid grasp of theoretical crafting and metagame knowledge most of the strategies will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Dota2 lore deepness, which is deftly woven into his character-mechanics – their skill and item builds draws heavily from classic RTS mechanics, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of the way proplayers play it, to realize that they’re not just complex- they say something deep about a GAMER’S LIFE. As a consequence people who only play Dota2 at a lower MMR ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the Shopkeeper’s existential catchphrase “What does a hero truly needs?” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Valve’s genius unfolds itself on their pc screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Dota2 tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 MMR points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.