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A small village located in the Philippines is no longer allowing residents to play the original Dota mod for Warcraft III, following two deadly stabbings and other violent incidents. The original Dota mod is still popular in the Philippines today despite the launches of successors like Dota 2 and its closest competitor, League of Legends.
The news was originally reported by Inquirer.net, the village of Salawag had opted for an outright Dota ban after government officials conversed with internet cafe owners and decided that the game was making people too violent towards eachother.
Kotaku picked up on this story earlier today and managed to get a quote from a Filipino reader, who noted that many players can be really “intense” when it comes to Dota matches in public computer cafes.
Two teenagers were stabbed to death over a fight that stemmed from playing the game. The most recent incident occurred in November last year.
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KitGuru Says: Even on newer MOBA games like Dota 2 or League of Legends, the community can be pretty unforgiving and often rude, its just a shame to see some players take things so far and resorting to violence.
Well you know, Peenoise. Pride mentality and too much self-confidence on the internet. -by the way, one of the player of Dota2 and LoL here. (NoKappa)
And again, the problem was not that them kids were bonkers, the game made them violent. Let’s see, sports i say let’s ban sports of all kinds as well, they make supporters violent too. And pubs. Lottery? Yea, guess too many people slam their tickets to the tables, ban that too. Traffic? Saw two people yelling at each other today, ban the cars as well.
well, to be exact… 50% of the W3:FT-Dota Mod Community here in the Philippines are below 16 years old and from that, probably 3% to 11% of them kids are engaged on illegally legal gamble match. Well, you know what I mean.
So what you are saying is that they were possibly playing on a money pot, and because they are poor they resorted to violence. The site definitely didn’t mention anything about that. As far as this type of “in house” pots, violence will occur on any type of game when one of the player flings cheating accusations.
Boy do I love my country, if only people acted better altogether.
wow.. where did you get your stats? conducted research? and ILLEGALLY LEGAL GAMBLE? wow.. where did you get that term “Illegally legal”?
Start showing stats when you got facts to back them up, because I know a lot of cafes with no dota2 and I dont even see 1 minor.
i can see them a lot. dude if you tried going to urban places. you see piso nets , 5-10pc shops. where there’s no such thing we call in the city ” no login during school hours” thats where these kids play. or maybe not kids but unemployed and uneducated ” tambays ” not really pointing and insulting all of them (sorry) but mostly these type of people are like gangsta wannabes then they go play dota they gamble. well i guess you now all get whats happening
im pinoy and yes i agree. if there was one different pinoy you wouldnt know he was even a pinoy cause we dont want to be flamed without any reason at all.sucks
Peenoise… you really tried so hard to pretend you don’t know how it’s spelled. The fact that your IP indicates that you are loacated in the Philippines doesn’t help you much neither. How pathetic.
Peenoise… you really tried so hard to pretend you don’t know how it’s spelled. The fact that your IP Address indicates that you are located in the Philippines doesn’t help you much neither. How pathetic. Denying his own race just to be noticed.
I think it’s just invalid to make a point about how this game made people “violent”. By nature this game is fictional and I believe people can’t cast magic or wield gigantic swords to apparently “copy” the character’s “violent action”. It’s more like this game’s value outweighed a human life for the murderers. Just like any other factors like sports and money, people get violent because it’s human nature. When they feel that winning in sports outweigh the value of human life, they become violent. It’s really up to the people’s judgement to determine the weight. But you see people who murder for games like this…it’s human stupidity
I personally think there’s something inherently wrong with the way these kids are reared. As a Filipino myself, this has been quite frequent, hence the presence of guards and stricter bans on people fighting in the cafe, Thnkafully I have my own PC now so I will never go back into that hell hole.