EPTI do like the "smash brothers" idea of pairing iconic heroes against each other, but I think it would be better suited to a more platform style of game.
TL; DR: I suspect this will be bad overall for the DotA/HoN communities.
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Gr1m
Australia52 Posts
I do like the "smash brothers" idea of pairing iconic heroes against each other, but I think it would be better suited to a more platform style of game. TL; DR: I suspect this will be bad overall for the DotA/HoN communities. | ||
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cheesable
Singapore6 Posts
But all in all, SC2 Dota might not be balanced, but it should be fun. And yes, icefrog did not create DotA. I remember RoC version of DotA coming out. Eul's version. The first version having a water elemental which could self heal, making stacking armor very effecting on him. Subsequently, there were 2 DotA- Allstars made at about the same time < roughly around the time of survivor allstars. 1 took flight though. and still icefrog was not the maker of it. He just inherited it over time. (I think he was the 3rd successor). | ||
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pat965
Canada274 Posts
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Ganondorf
Italy600 Posts
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Norp
United States55 Posts
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zTz
United States476 Posts
the new maps they have do look fun | ||
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snorlax
United States755 Posts
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
On October 25 2010 02:06 Unentschieden wrote: Nope, it´s the other way around. Icefrog approached Blizzard but they coulnd´t stand him/his ideas. He actually took turns with all the current "Dotaclones" but only Valve managed to tolerate him - barely: http://icefrogtruth.blogspot.com/2010/10/truth.html i cant believe this is still circulating around. gullible people | ||
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jstar
Canada568 Posts
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bakedace
United States672 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 23 2010 15:29 KiLL_ORdeR wrote: that black ghost from the Vanilla Starcraft, I forget his name. He wasn't in vanilla. | ||
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fxSolo
United States42 Posts
On October 24 2010 03:24 TheYango wrote: Am I the only one who thinks that Blizzard is only doing this with the intention of making a casual custom map to show off the editor, and not with the intention of shoving into the AoS genre? Just look at the other maps showcased (Aiur Chef, Left 2 Die)--none of them look like they're going to be serious, persistently-updated projects, just something the dev team did for fun in their spare time. In order to seriously compete with LoL/DotA/HoN, Blizzard would have to spend time and manpower to continuously add new content to this and keep it balanced. Considering that they ALREADY have to do this for SC2, that's extremely unlikely. I agree with this. I went to Blizzcon and got to try out these new maps. Blizzard's intentions, from what I can tell, are to just show the robust nature of the current map editor and some high level map designs from the pros using the editor. They're not trying to create a competitor to DOTA2 or LoL or HoN or whatever. They just wanted to make a fun game where you could take some iconic figures within their own universes and pit them against each other. Having new UMS games with demo stations also helped give SC2 some more interest, as the con was mainly D3 focused so Blizzard probably wanted to still generate some hype over an already released game, since there weren't a whole ton of new things to announce or demo. Now Starjeweled on the other hand, that game is really going to cause rifts into the competitive Bejeweled gaming scene. | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On October 25 2010 16:07 Ganondorf wrote: I do not understand the idea behind mixing sc2 and wc3 lore. I would never play such nonsense. Looked like an April's fool but it isn't anywhere near April so.. not even considering trying it. I hope they change their mind and make it based on sc2 lore only. It's a custom map, not a new chapter in the StarCraft storyline. They aren't mixing the lore, they're making a battle arena map where people play against eachother using heroes. They aren't having Kerrigan and Arthas stand on the frozen wastes of Icecrown battling Jim Raynor's Terran army backed up by the Scarlet Crusade's Holy Paladins. They can do whatever the hell they want in a custom map. | ||
KwarK
United States44189 Posts
Does anyone? | ||
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Aegis Runestone
United States54 Posts
Yeah... I think this could be bad for the WC3 DoTA. Blizzard's obviously going to try to stop Valve, but... I dunno who will win. Both companies have a good stake in the issue (DoTA was originally made with the WC3 Editor, yet Valve has Icefrog), so it could go either way in my opinion. | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On October 29 2010 23:43 Aegis Runestone wrote: Did you know Valve is trying to trademark DoTA? Yeah... I think this could be bad for the WC3 DoTA. Blizzard's obviously going to try to stop Valve, but... I dunno who will win. Both companies have a good stake in the issue (DoTA was originally made with the WC3 Editor, yet Valve has Icefrog), so it could go either way in my opinion. Nobody likes the War3 DotA technical limitations, if anything, that's the one thing holding back DotA. The shitty netcode of B.net, the shitty trigger limitations of the map editor (hello triggered heals) along with the overall pretty crummy interface. Everyone will jump from War3 DotA to Valve DotA the minute it gets released, except some of the Asians, they'll most likely look for ways to pirate the shit. | ||
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dizzy101
Netherlands2066 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
here is a list of games blizzard has done http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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NeonFlare
Finland1307 Posts
Likely LoL isn't affected as much by all this since their free to play with microtransactions business model attracts quite a number of players from all over who don't want to drop a coin for a product or just enjoy their choices regarding the gameplay. Olde DotA's fate is bit questionable, will people stay "loyal" to it and enjoy it due it being "free" or move on to the supposedly up to date version? Most of the transition from DotA to HoN and LoL has already happened so only possibly SC2 DotA and new DotA 2 can drain their playerbase. Oh well, hopefully Blizz's own DotA turns out decently, though I'm not that much interested in it. Currently playing HoN and BLC, might go for DotA 2 should enough of my friends move on it. Kinda hope BLC gets decent amount of players when beta ends as current matchmaking is quite silly with massive skillrange due low population. | ||
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