Valve Is Making DotA 2

[Opaque]

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But first some of you might be thinking, “What is Dota 2?” Dota began as a user-made modification for Warcraft 3 and has grown into one of the most played online games in the world. Following in the tradition of Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Portal, and Alien Swarm, Dota 2 is the result of Valve hiring the community developers who built the mod and giving them the chance to finally build a full product out of their idea with the help of a professional team of developers and artists at Valve.

Now personally, I never played the original. That being said, that list of games they mentioned is pretty fucking good and this is Valve we're talking about.

I'm interested to see how this game goes.

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[dave is ok]

Blizzard is making it too.

I'm kind of rooting for Valve's version though, they saw talent and hired it. Blizzard doesn't do that shit

[Opaque]

I already like the game Valve is making better. Also, I like that Blizzard tried to make it sound, in some interviews I found, like it was wrong of Valve to try and take this game away from Blizzard when any logical person can see how it's wrong of Blizzard to try to take this away from the modder who actually made it. Valve looked at a guy that made a good mod and said "we should hire him and give him the tools he needs to make something even better" and Blizzard saw the same thing and thought "oh, we should take that guys idea and do it ourselves."

[epmode]

DOTA is one of the most noob-unfriendly games of all time. It has a horrible community due to how a single player playing badly can ruin everything for his team. A lot of people figured Valve would do something like a Team Fortress 2 streamlining but they didn't do that at all.

Valve is keeping the complexity intact and is instead focusing on the end-user community stuff. They're implementing some kind of coaching system to help new players. Also: matchmaking.

[YellerDog]

Those character pieces are rad as hell. What's this exactly?

That Blizzard nerd rep guy is horrible.

[Opaque]

They are attempting to make a matchmaking system that will group people based on skill, so you're not that guy who ruin it for your team every time. That could ease the gap into play if done correctly.

[FirstBlood]

What's this exactly?

Think Warcraft 3 but you only control the Hero class and you have a bunch of barracks that continually spawn knights that run up a set path towards another Hero and his set of barracks that you're supposed to destroy. And there's three heroes on each side, I think.

[MechDeus]

Oh boy, DOTA. Pretty cool mod, terrible community. This thing was like a haven for people that played WoW but needed a new outlet for trying to feel elitist.

[Cowutopia]

I'm pretty sure my brother has been addicted to DotA for fucking months now. It's pretty fun but very similar to WoW's battlegrounds, except since they designed it for multi the balance is much better than WoW's combat. But yeah, you need a good team to do anything.

[FirstBlood]

I never thought of it as anything more than a throwaway WC3 mod that was simple, addictive and fun.

But yeah, definitely a haven for people that love to get really angry and yell-type shit like "OMG NOOB YOU FUCKING NOOB YOU PICKED THE PIT LORD NOW WE LOSE FAGGOT"