Dota 2 Reborn was the name of the new client and update to Dota 2.
He said he plays in Dota 2 Reborn.
Does it matter what he’s playing? Whatever it is, he’s spending too much time on it. I think someone on this thread mentioned this before, but try to get him addicted to developing games instead. If you ask me, both playing games and making them are equally addictive. However, playing games often seems more fun because it’s like plants and animals: plants produce, animals consume. In this scenario, gamers are the consumers and game devvies are the producers. My mom introduced me to this analogy back when I was addicted to Minecraft. It took me a while to come to my senses; that is to say, I eventually got bored of playing games and decided to make some of my own so that people could look at my games and say, “Hey, that’s pretty cool!”.
“Get him addicted to making games”…putting it that way makes it sound almost simple, because it isn’t simple, not at all. You have to psychologically wrench him away from his addiction to games. When you look at game trailers, they put you in a sort of trance: “That game is so cool, I want it!”. You have to do the same thing, except with game development programs like Unreal Engine. Show your brother Unreal Engine showcase reels and say stuff like: “Wouldn’t it be great to make our own games?” or “That looks amazing! You should try making games sometimes.”
Technically yes)
conceptual : valve not call Source engine “CS GO Reborn”
So… Well, i Tried.
I like this comparison 
Game developers(animals) create something for players (plants)
let it be mystery - what XD
(CO2 or …)
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Yes - show him minecraft and say “hi also can make game and earn billions” - in many cases its works =)
How old are you?
Back when I was in college (I’m American, so I guess I mean “back when I was at university”), I had a group of friends who played dota and WoW ALL THE TIME. It’s all they talked about. The only friends they seemed to make were from the game. They would play instead of studying or doing homework. Your brother sounds a lot like them.
But here’s the thing: most of those people now have successful careers, wives, houses, kids, etc. They’re doing fine.
So I maybe wouldn’t worry too much about it. If you’re really that worried about it, try to invite him to some of your social activities.
But it sounds more like you’re annoyed with the noise he makes while he’s playing- maybe get a nice pair of earphones for yourself? Or a nerf gun you can shoot him with when he’s being too loud?
If you really want to try blocking dota, just go to the settings page for your router…
Dota2 is a hell of an addicting game. I started about 3 years ago, and as soon as you really learn the game, not only the rewards get better you also feel you have spent to much time learning it to just give up. Because the learning curve is so freaking steep. You need 3-4 months of playing before you’ll actually understand a tournament match that is being broadcast.
I was a very productive game developer (see my projects here) and I almost stoped at all writing games, surprise, 3 years ago. I eventually (after about 2 years) realized how much time I lost with this shit, and how I was scheduling my activities in terms of “how many dota 2 matches I’ll have left today if I do this or that”.
After I realized this, I went back to gamedev (you’ll soon see my project here 
), and I still play Dota 2 but far far less. To be fair, I didn’t “realize it” actually. I got a lot of complaints from my wife before I snapped
Long story short @Stranger: Until he realizes he’s wasting his youth with last hits and ganks, he won’t stop. Blocking your routers will only make him highly frustrated and will hate you when he finds out. As many other people here said, the best thing is to try to show that 14 hours of dota per day IS a waste of time, he can be doing so many other fun things with his life.
I’m a bit surprise to hear this from you. Denying that some addiction is not real is a very right oriented line of thought. It does not match your super leftist and (supposedly) empathic personality. It’s not just because you can’t get addicted to games it doesn’t mean it does not exist.
Addiction to anything can be perceived when there’s a repetition of some destructive behavior in search of an instant and short termed reward. If he dropped out of college, has no social life, leads a completely sedentary life, all of this caused by the repetitive instant reward of winning a dota match, that looks pretty much like an addiction.
It’s not that he’s not to blame - everybody should be responsible for their own acts - but denying that it exists just because you don’t experience it, it seems to me very short sighted. Addictive behavior IS a genetic trait - being it to alcohol, cocaine or Dota 2.
Just because your eyes are green it doesn’t mean there are no blue eyes.
I know that English isn’t my mother tongue but there is a serious misunderstanding.
At first, I talked about myself mainly to explain that it’s totally possible to play a lot sometimes and to be in a good mental health. I wanted to explain that the video games can be used as a shelter to work around some other psychological or social problems.
Secondly, I wrote “it doesn’t mean that what Stranger describes doesn’t exist”. Therefore, I don’t understand why you wrote “It’s not just because you can’t get addicted to games it doesn’t mean it does not exist”. An addiction is a compulsive physiological and psychological need whereas there is no physiological need in this case, your definition of the word “addiction” differs from the medical definition. Games aren’t guilty, the real problem is deeper. Why did his brother choose to use video games as a shelter? You attacked me on my political opinions because you lack of stronger arguments and because what I wrote bothers you.
At least 25% of the population in my country consume some antidepressants, it allows the capitalist industry to earn a lot of money from the sadness of the people, the situation is similar with anxiolytics, Xanax is the 12th most sold medicine in the world. Those substances aren’t used to drive people happy on the long term, they are used to ensure that they are still productive because the capitalist system doesn’t accept that people need a lot of time to solve their psychological problems. Those substances are addictive. If the capitalists want to earn much more money, they will prefer people not to solve their problems and it’s exactly what you do, you needed your wife to stop playing too much, it’s easier for you to blame video games instead of trying to find what was wrong in your life to encourage you to spend so much time in playing with a game. I remember hearing about some parents complaining that their children spent too much time in playing video games because it was so easier that admitting that they weren’t good parents, that they spend too much time at work to earn more and more money in order to consume more and more. Come back to Earth, we all make some mistakes, admitting it is the first step to go forth and avoid reproducing them again and again.
Is his current life outside gaming fun? I think that it’s an important question.
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You consider that it’s a waste of time, he probably disagrees with you. There isn’t only one single path to happiness, he has the right to have other priorities than the social life, especially if there is something wrong in this part of his life. However, it’s really problematic when his very intense gaming harms his body, his mind and those of his family.
I’m too young to die.
If he’s screaming he does that so loudly that no earphones save you from being hurt. If you in another room you’re damaged less. Besides, he’s usually playing through the night starting usually at 3-5 pm … though playing schedule varies in wide spectrum.
I really worry about his future. I wrote above posts which you meant just while he has demonstrated his voice power and language’s taboo knowledge.
I did this and other actions for a few years starting from Parental Control (Windows / Kaspersky IS / Parental Control Software). All this stuff good for children looking for “ANY KEY” at keyboard .
So, I’ve discarded any plans to block games by technical means as a main strategy.
Fully agree
it no so evil as it looks ^^
They don’t sell Placebo – antidepressants is really helps in some way to become happier,
Same as many drugs, Video games, food, love, etc.
But Yes – antidepressants and other drugs create physical addiction
- because they physical consuming they harm health much more something mental like TV show addiction
Agene But – in many cases in 99% ppl’s its there own decision what addiction to chose
And how sad but:
you can’t save them 
- because they don’t want to be saved,
they like there life’s – watch TV show(play games) after work until go sleep and agene go to work,
in Friday and weekend go drink with friend all night)
They happy with such life ^^[spoiler]
Many ppl don’t see problems in such life but – technically they stay at on one place
and that is main indicator of addiction – you are in the same place at were you be: week - month ago.
(hm maybe addiction is wrong word - better say life waisting trap)
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I don’t want necro posting but:
ITs blow MY MIND
Dota 2 - 17,000 h
God will save this lost soul :-\
I was addicted to Minecraft for two years (not consecutive). I’m sober now (hahaha, what a funny joke…not). But it was pretty addicting because I thought I was part of something bigger, like I was doing something to improve the Minecraft community or whatever. That’s the reason for which I played Minecraft every day, almost without fail. That’s also one of the 8 core drives of gamification. This core drive is called Epic Meaning & Calling. Here’s a handy link: http://yukaichou.com/gamification-study/8-core-drives-gamification-1-epic-meaning-calling/#.VmlCIDZumUl
Read more about Octalysis and Gamification here: http://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/#.VmlCxTZumUk
I think you should figure out your brother’s core drive first. He’d be pretty angry if you just disabled Dota.