Feels like Destiny.
  • LacklusterGamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 hours ago

    I’m going to be honest I just looked up the game for the first time and had no clue it came out in 2009. I hadn’t ever heard of it until a few years ago so I just figured it was some new game. The whole warcraft/dota thing was crazy to me.

      • tacofox@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I just learned that DOTA was a wc3 mod originally like last month, so I’m assuming that’s what they mean?

        Edit: and how did I find out? Well, Basshunter’s “DOTA” music video of course. Which coincidentally I also learned was about DOTA the game lol.

        • RadimentriX@troet.cafe
          2·
          5 hours ago

          @tacofox @AwesomeLowlander wasnt LoL made by some of the original DotA modders? But somehow valve ended up with the rights for the name so they made DotA 2 as a standalone game? It’s been ages since iv’e seen an article about the origins of those games :D

          • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            There were many people who worked on dota back then. There was no official version to begin with, you could find a dozen variants in bnet on any given day. Slowly it got centralised. Some of the modders ended up at LoL, others ended up at Valve. The name wasn’t copyrighted, nobody really owned it. Valve kinda inherited it by virtue of hiring the guy running the mod team at the end.