Valve Confirms DotA 2 for 2011
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They did pretty much the exact same thing with Counter Strike and Team Fortress, as far as I'm aware.Dyme said:
Though DotA is great, as is the main spinoffs of LoL and HoN, I can't help but think the population of these games are being spread way too thinly. Once DotA 2 comes out that'll be four games that the original players of DotA will be playing and four games that newcomers will have to choose between.
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Not that it will help them with the community of these games. I've come to the understanding that most people in these games are pricks. Even your 'friends' in the games. Speaking of which, I wonder if DotA 2 will have more mature themes and a similar rating. If so, I might help to block out some of those whiny children who do think they're the gods of DotA and turn out to be nothing but feeders.
And on another note, It seems that Valve's going to be capturing another group of gamers if they manage to pull this off. They'll have both a mainstream FPS game and a mainstream RTS/MOBA game. Where next, a mainstream Cooking Mama game?
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Not that it will help them with the community of these games. I've come to the understanding that most people in these games are pricks. Even your 'friends' in the games. Speaking of which, I wonder if DotA 2 will have more mature themes and a similar rating. If so, I might help to block out some of those whiny children who do think they're the gods of DotA and turn out to be nothing but feeders.
And on another note, It seems that Valve's going to be capturing another group of gamers if they manage to pull this off. They'll have both a mainstream FPS game and a mainstream RTS/MOBA game. Where next, a mainstream Cooking Mama game?
Icefrog gave HoN permission to copy the heroes, items, etc from DotA, change the name and then sell it. If I'm right, Icefrog's presence in Valve means that Valve has the rights to DotA and is allowed to make a sellable version of DotA themselves. Valve has a much better history of balance in their games than Icefrog has, however, and I'm sure the new game will be better balanced for new heroes and old.smithy_2045 said:
I'm going to wait until we see what Valve can come up with before making judgements. What could happen is valve create a game which doesn't grasp some of the fundamental mechanics of dota, makes it too easy, or in some other way mucks it up.
What is more likely to happen is Valve, like they do with every game / mod team, bring them into their family, give them everything they need to make a kick ass game, and absolutely nail it (see CS, TF2, DoD).
It will be kind of weird to see Valve go quite deep into the realms of RTS and Fantasy, I don't think we've seen that before, lets see what they can come up with. If it is successful it will probably mean the decline of HoN's player base, but I think LoL has got it spot on, and will continue to do well.
What is more likely to happen is Valve, like they do with every game / mod team, bring them into their family, give them everything they need to make a kick ass game, and absolutely nail it (see CS, TF2, DoD).
It will be kind of weird to see Valve go quite deep into the realms of RTS and Fantasy, I don't think we've seen that before, lets see what they can come up with. If it is successful it will probably mean the decline of HoN's player base, but I think LoL has got it spot on, and will continue to do well.
Um... I'm just going to wait until Valve releases another Orange Box containing Half Life 2-Episode1/2/and 3.
