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Snap that looks cool! I guess my only question is one of intellectual property rights. A lot of the heroes are still very very recognizable for what they were in Warcraft... can they really publish something and retain those elements of the design?

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ponceleon.

DOTA 2?? Are they considering Warcraft's version as DOTA 1?

I think it'll have a hard time competing with League of LEgends.

>> ^JiggaJonson:

I think it'll have a hard time competing with League of LEgends.

I'm not so sure. Consider that Heroes of Newerth had to compete against a somewhat smaller LoL and the original DotA, which may as well be free given the ease of which you can acquire WC3 and play online without payin a dime. S2 seemed to do ok, although clearly their sales were drying up, given they introduced the f2p model.


Dota2 has the name and the original creator of the WC3 map behind it, thats going to be enough for a lot of Dota fans. Its also made by a very well respected developer and will be distributed over Steam. I imagine most HoN players are going to switch over since HoN is essentially a clone. Most people that played DotA don't play LoL and most who play LoL never played Dota, so I don't think there is really a direct competition there. They are just two games of the same genre...like Halo and CoD.

While LoL might be free, its still makin them money somehow. They are giving it away with the expecation that on average each player pays about what they would have charged upfront. Ok, you can spend as little or as much as you want (much being almost $500 I believe), but if you want to play the game competitively then you do actually need to pull out your wallet. I know most people don't care about that, but there is a 1million dollar tournament for Dota2...its clear they want to sell this to people who want to play it at least at a amatuerish level.

So yeah. tl;dr: It'll do fine.

Cool that there is a trailer out, and the game is coming, but this trailer is suck. Gameplay please!

The game is being shown at GamesCom in Germany, which starts tomorrow. Expect plenty of gameplay footage over the next few days. >> ^possom:

Cool that there is a trailer out, and the game is coming, but this trailer is suck. Gameplay please!

>> ^ponceleon:

quality
Snap that looks cool! I guess my only question is one of intellectual property rights. A lot of the heroes are still very very recognizable for what they were in Warcraft... can they really publish something and retain those elements of the design?


Well, if they want to get into that territory, Maybe Games Workshop will have a few words for Blizzard, in turn....

The Dota 2 Championship games are being streamed live here: http://www.dota2.com/tournaments/international/

Enjoy!>> ^possom:

Cool that there is a trailer out, and the game is coming, but this trailer is suck. Gameplay please!

Watched MYM vs MS. Good stuff!