Dota 2 fans’ devotion to the game makes developer regret a decision

Dota 2’s journey hit a significant milestone this month, with over seven billion matches played. However, the developer who helped Valve engineer the match tracking system never could have imagined the astronomical growth of the game, causing his original estimate to fall far short.

During the initial design process, the recently retired Zoid Kirsch chose a 32-bit value of up to four billion for the match id system. He anticipated that there would be one game per second, and the 32-bit foundation would serve Dota 2 for 126 years.

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