I don't play online games particularly often, mostly the only ones that I do enjoy are the kind of games I can play with just my friends. He also, apparently, is someone who is often subjected to ridicule while playing the very same game his company makes. The man himself made a pre-recorded experience at this year's Dota 2 International, opening exactly how you'd expect him to: "Hi, I'm Gabe Newell." "Sure, people talk s**t at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game and [censor blip]. But that's really about their enthusiasm, and the energy that they bring, and that's why, after all these years, I still play Dota every day."