It also marks the decline Dota in my country. Riot decided that it is best to let Garena to distribute the game. Garena+ was implemented in 2010 and along with it, League of Legends. But Garena started its descend to the path of evil. I would be forced to quit Dota for a few years.
#LEAGUE OF LEGENDS GARENA CLIENT PC#
My early PC gaming life was started thanks to Dota, but it also marked my unstable life in gaming and in real life. GMs back then does their job diligently and some are even high skilled players, albeit there are recurring toxic players, ie. Garena handles toxic players such as leavers by implementing GM, Game Masters or Garena Masters, they are like the admins, able to lift the ban hammer etc.
#LEAGUE OF LEGENDS GARENA CLIENT PRO#
Garena allocated some slots for these Gold members, also you gain EXP faster, allowing Pro Smurfing players to quickly reach high level to create clans etc. It allows the user to join a room that has been fully occupied. Garena even had a micro transaction back then that is called the Gold membership. Back then I was a complete noob and occasionally pros would join our room and stomped us completely, like KingSurf Chuan who was in Malaysia back then. AFAIK, Level 25 allow the user to start a clan which requires the player to dedicate a lot of the time into playing. These level serve no purpose except that it allows the player to join higher level room. Usually, successfully played game would allow an account to accumulate EXP to level up. Garena had many rooms allocated to different region and the host of the game would have to tunnel the connection for the players. Garena back then was just a lobby client that allow players to play Dota with each other, other than Dota, it also allow Brood Wars. (The main client window of Garena, this is the oldest one I can find.) (The login window for Garena circa 2007-2009)
The wiki page is kinda false as Garena existed before 2009. Players either connect with or other lobby client software, one of the juggernaut is non other than Garena. I started my first step in PC gaming back in 2007 where my friend introduced me into Dota, back then it was a Warcraft 3 Mod. Let me start off this long post with this warning, this is a super long and little pic post and many emotions expressed here are extremely negative and based on real life experience.