Switch mode sucks.

I want to hear TW's opinion about this... UNBANNED him please!

IMO switch should have been replace by a -concede command!! This way it would end the game earlier(through voting of course) and would not waste a lot of time.

You gusy are wrong, the worst thing made in dota is not -switch mode, its the new visage! xD

Before the Switch command was introduced, i played many games of DotA, and seventy percent of the games were nice and orderes games, only thirty percent of my games were leaver games. All in all it was fun to play DotA, and even one game a day could be satisfying.
After Switch got introduced, I have (SERIOUSLY) about ninetyfive percent leaver games, that end up in 1v1 situations with 2 lvl 25 heroes that have all their items and just play along, because they know if they quit now, they will join another game which will be a leaver game too. I need about 10 games a day, until i get lucky and have a 5v5 game, that ends with the same player count as it started. When I am winning, (of course) the enemies (at least one of them) leave and we use switch, I experienced that I couldn't win any of these games anymore, because the hero that once got babysitted by me, now goes for my ass. Since switch got introduced, I don't have any more fun with playing DotA, everytime I join a game, I hope that this one will not be a leaver game, knowing that it will be one anyway...
In the past an immediate remake was the answer to leavers. Now ppl think that switch is the better answer to them, but its not. They just don't seem to understand, that changing a winning team will rip the balance (balance in my eyes doesn't mean that two teams are equally strong) of the game apart. I think switch is not balancing games, but unbalancing them. The only fair way of switch i can think of is the bringing-two-friends-together situation before picking any hero.
IceFrog, as brilliant as he is, this is one of the worst ideas (if it was his idea) he ever had. I am actually thinking of quitting DotA, until this command gets removed again, since u can hardly find any games without switch anymore.

I hate Switch mode

whenever you like own theyr team "PRO" players leave by saying sorry gtg or smth like that

I don't think that removing -so would be good idea. I know that it (removing) would help during games on Garena, clan games, leagues, but pub games would be over after 15-25 minutes (too many leavers). I still remember, when host had to type -so to activate this mode, but noone knew about it for few days. The point is that I finished game (without leaving before due to no enemies) after 3-4 days of playing 2-3 hours per day. I think that -so is quite good for pubs. Feel free to criticism (I am sure you will) XD

Switch is a piece of a house, but that little piece alone destroys DotA.


Of all 250 games I've played, 1 yes ONE game was good because another player with an IQ above pub (negative number) actually used his brain before he did anything, and was the only one not to !votekick me because I denied a switch. It was just a normal pub game like in the good 6.40's but it was the only DotA game I actually enjoyed.

Switching ruins all my efforts to adapt myself to the team strategy and players

I totally agree here, switch is a no-go for my part, never host with is - except when i play with 9 friends. When you have some people you can trust, it actually is a really good mode because you can now do that one more thing to make the game fun, or to test something out. I believe it should still be in DotA, but just not on bnet. (sorry for my grammar...)