On which Mulaney was a writer ! <| sep |> I ' d avoid it . so many issues . And it doesn ' t age well . <| sep |> my family avoided that subject for the most part good beel <| sep |> Well , I never ! <| sep |> But does it matter is the real question . haha <| sep |> If you ' ve got some friends to show you the ropes , then it ' s worth picking up . Going at it alone is excruciatingly hard during the long learning period . I ' d say about 200 hours until you get a decent understanding of most of the mechanics . DotA 2 at the moment is really not broken per se , it ' s more of a problem with the community being toxic . But that ' s nothing new if you ' re coming from other online games . I highly suggest starting off with a friend helping you out to avoid some of the confusion and random toxicity . Well , there is unranked and ranked . Unranked is usually seen as the casual mode of the game , although you will still run into tryhards there as well . In my honest opinion , it is not a good EDIT casual game because of one simple reason matches last anywhere from 3090 minutes and there is almost never an easy way to tell which it ' s going to be . Average match I ' d say is around 4550 minutes , which still makes it too much of a time hog to be casual .