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The Diretide Incident!

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If you visit Reddit or some similar site, you could probably see posts/messages/whatever you call them like "༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE" or "volvo plx fiks ded gaem" . If you know and understand what those mean, good for you; go laugh more! If you dont know what's all about, let me explain you:

Last year Dota 2 had a halloween event called "Diretide". Since TF2 halloween event happens every year, and the flavor text of Diretide said it was a annual event (like WoW Winter Veil), people started getting hyped.

There was no Diretide, and the shit hit the fan.

Disgruntled players starded spamming twitch chat with emotes, which eventually changed to people losing on purpose in-game to "call Valve's attention" and defacing Wikipedia articles and raiding the game Metascore.

They also spammed Volvo's (Volvo is a pun of Valve) reddit and facebook pages. One guy even called Volvo to ask them about Diretide.
The most interesting/funniest part is that Volvo actually responded to all the spam.

I can only think people at Valve can't stop laughing.

11 years ago*

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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ThiefStealsalot

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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AtomicWoodchuck

B-B-B-BOMBO CREAKER!

11 years ago

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This is why we can't have nice things!

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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༼ つ▔ ш▔ ༽つ可怕TIDE“

11 years ago

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༼ つ O_o ༽つ Give HERPES

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give Dope to all our Brothers and Sisters

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ give me kawaii eyes

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(Game Developer)

༼ つ O_o ༽つ Give God Gaben's bless

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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..༼ ◕ n ◕༽
༼ つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ༽つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿

GIVE DIRETIDE OR I SHOOT!

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give me five

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

11 years ago

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凸(ಠ_ಠ )凸 DIRETIDE!!!

11 years ago

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+1

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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TheDukeofNukemberg

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ <Kirby's Illegitimate Cousin Bosco

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༼͖͎̌̔̓ ̻̗̮̟ͮ̂つ̺̞̭̟̅͜ ͈̪̣̟͓ͩͦ̉ͅͅ◕̸͎̭̯̣̭ͩ̂͒͋̈́̐ͪ_͈͔͐͟◕̵̰̞̱͖̰̄͊ͬ̌̈́̂ ̱̱̺̙̺̹̂̍͆̈́̆̀༽̷͓̯̫̳̟̗̄ͣ̎ͩ̏̈つ̸̞̜͎̮̩ ͙͉͑̇̅ͨ̑͢G̀̋̑i̸̜͍͙͕͎͔v̥̳̝͙e̋͂ͩ҉̜̙̗̙̗̮̯ ̞̩D̟̲̞̖̱̊̅̇̀̋̂ͅÏ̱͛̅͡ͅR̼̰͖͖ͭ̎ͭE̷̼̪͑̓̔ͫ̂ͬ͒T̯̜̼̝͆̽́͆ͩ̔̀Iͧ̿̓͑D̞̗͎͍͈̄̾̾̐̆̈́̚ͅE͋ͩ̓ͮ̈́̆ͧ

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

11 years ago

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Call of Duty Ghosts is better than Nvidia

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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volvo plx fiks ded gaem

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11 years ago

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Arrogant asswipes are the scum of the earth :)

11 years ago

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improper grammar users are the scum of the Earth.

11 years ago

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scum of the earth is scum of the earth

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antoniossomatos

Scum of the Earth C'mon

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RobotDeathParty

*+ 1, especially since it's, y'know, DillonMabry.

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11 years ago

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almost as bad as.. insert inner thoughts here..

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11 years ago

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Awwww. that makes me sad. Oh well, back to Pokemon

11 years ago

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.༼ ◕ n ◕༽
༼ つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ༽つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿

While I don't play MOBAs because I don't find them any fun, I do think that you're being a bit of a douche. Therefore.. GIVE DIRETIDE!

11 years ago

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE?

11 years ago

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kinda funny

11 years ago

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That response by Volvo is brilliant. Kinda silly by Valve to suggest it would be yearly and then not do anything, especially considering they want DotA to be huge.

11 years ago

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"Hey, this is an annual event!"

NEXT YEAR

"What? You guys didn't seem to like it."

:/

11 years ago

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Yup. Volvo's SM department gets it. Very smart move.

11 years ago

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Uhm you can keep your diretides

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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Oh god, poor Volvo!

11 years ago

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Lol at this. Volvo's facebook page.

Volvo:"Valve, hats are great, but the people want Diretide!"

11 years ago

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I'm just still trying to figure out why Vladimir Putin's Facebook page got Diretide spammed. Or was that a case of "Why? Why not?"

11 years ago

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Obama's page is also spammed.

11 years ago

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I laugh at these people

11 years ago

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WOW Why would Obama even care. He's busy fighting his little wars.

11 years ago

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IDK if this whole thing is funny or sad.. @spamming random pages which have nothing to do with this "diretide" thingy

11 years ago

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Don't care about Dota or Dota players. Most people don't either. Including Valve. In other words, nobody cares about diretide.

11 years ago

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1/10 Nice try, come again.

11 years ago

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By "most people" He is right. Out of all the gamers, only a certain number play Dota, and out of these, a certain number demand diretide.
"Nobody cares about diretide" That's not true, because there are Dota plays who care, and some, a lot.

About Valve, that depends. They already make enough money from Hat Fortress 2 and the other games anyway.

11 years ago

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10/10, he is right!

11 years ago

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+1

11 years ago

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ONE time where DotA2 players can feel what TF2 ones did after focus shift -.-"

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Butthurt people

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(Junior Moderator)

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give more TF2 hats

11 years ago

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i cant believe this exploded this much lol

11 years ago

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Damn.

11 years ago

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From 9 to 4.0 lulz

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE Fortix 3

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༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ DIRETIDE

/╲/\╭(◕◕◡◕◕)╮/\╱\ BROODMOTHER WANTS DIRETIDE

༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ Punch Volvo for the diretide

༼ つ ◡_◡༽つ DIRE TIDE

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EveryShadeOfLife

ah gamers and their unlimited entitlement.it would be funny if it weren't so sad.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4

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If I were the head of Volvo marketing department I would call Gabe ASAP and suggest to collaborate on the next Dota 2 Halloween event. "Diretide 2. Brought to you by Valve and Volvo. Fuck yeah."

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Yeah, I would like to see them involvod in Dota 2.

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