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On behalf of everyone else clicking the link in the newsletter because it said "Valve", "Blizzard", and "settle", and are not interested enough to Google it... What the hell is DOTA?
:[ blizzards claim to the name dota was almost none existant lol
As is Valve's, as is Icefrog's.
The community owns the name DotA, no particular person or company does.
Yeah, well try using it and see how fast these wonderful companies pull your rear end into court as well. Its not about the gamer, its about how much money they can make off the gamer. They have to keep us happy to buy that new Mercedes for their expensive girlfriends.
On behalf of everyone else clicking the link in the newsletter because it said "Valve", "Blizzard", and "settle", and are not interested enough to Google it... What the hell is DOTA?
Defense of the Ancients, a custom map created for Warcraft 3 by a few community members. It became very popular, relatively quickly.
The original DotA WC3 mod inspired S2 Games to create a game based on it (instead of the one their community at the time wanted) called Heroes of Newerth. League of Legends also came out around the same time (and forget the developers on that). Icefrog (if I recall right) developed a standalone version several years ago, too, that came out before HoN or LoL, but I can't remember dates and can't be arsed to look them up.
Basically, Blizz said "if we can't get it, nobody is" and !@#$blocked everyone from getting a trademark on the name.
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When I first read about the "Blizzard All-Stars", I thought it was a joke name. lol
But I guess it's real. Either way, I won't be playing either game, but at least the issue has been resolved for those who will.
Welcome to Journalism 101, where we do not assume our readers have read every article written on the topic prior to this one, or that they'd heard of the subject at all.
On behalf of everyone else clicking the link in the newsletter because it said "Valve", "Blizzard", and "settle", and are not interested enough to Google it... What the hell is DOTA?
It's a rubbish game anyway, I don't see why anyone would care to copyright it.
Defense of the Ancients, a custom map created for Warcraft 3 by a few community members. It became very popular, relatively quickly.
The original DotA WC3 mod inspired S2 Games to create a game based on it (instead of the one their community at the time wanted) called Heroes of Newerth. League of Legends also came out around the same time (and forget the developers on that). Icefrog (if I recall right) developed a standalone version several years ago, too, that came out before HoN or LoL, but I can't remember dates and can't be arsed to look them up.
Basically, Blizz said "if we can't get it, nobody is" and !@#$blocked everyone from getting a trademark on the name.