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I'm really surprised that this hasn't been brought up yet on the forums.
Today at BlizzCon, a special Blizzard mapmaking team announced their latest project: A MOBA map inspired by DOTA and Super Smash Bros. Basically, it's a MOBA featuring heroes from all of Blizzard's games to date, and I hear even a few from games that have yet to be released. Apparently it's going to be a Starcraft 2 Custom map, using the porvided mapmaker.
here's the video
Taken from this site.
I'm personally quite excited. DotA was a great game, although it's community was never very appealing. What I'm most excited about though, is playing as many of the Blizzard icons, such as Raynor or Kerrigan, Decard Cain or Thrall, and even real throwbacks like Medivh, or that black ghost from the Vanilla Starcraft, I forget his name.
Anyway, should be a great mod, and I can't wait to see more updates in the future 
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The current custom map system is going to suck for blizzard dota. Basically, under the current system, every game you join will have at least 1 or 2 complete newbs who never played the game before. This will prevent any serious or semi-serious games from happening.
Chat channel will help this a little but people are probably going to end up using a bot to set up games again (ala DotA in WC3, bots would whisper you a custom game name to join). I really hope that blizzard will develop a better way to join custom games. Maybe if it gets popular enough they can develop some sort of rankings for the blizzard dota so people can matchup according to skill.. (one can wish right?)
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That Matt Gotcher guy sounds like he's saying his last words from his deathbed.
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On October 23 2010 15:42 Ferrose wrote:
That Matt Gotcher guy sounds like he's saying his last words from his deathbed.
haha yeah, might be a nerd that hasnt had enough talks
i have a feeling its going to be not very much like dota though
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I hope it's better than SotIS or whatever it's called. That map does no justice to DotA
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Sotis killer, yay.
i didnt get to play DOTA, looks hella niceer than Sotis.
I only played Starjewel once, and 7-0 the other team.sad how ppl queue 30 minutes in line not know what to do for 15 mins
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The heroes got 6 skills! More micro intensive now =P
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I like the idea of playing the iconic blizzard characters in a MOBA style game. I'll probably still favor LoL as a game in its own right, but this looks like it will at least be fun.
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it looks pretty amazing and I'm actually rlly excited about it
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So they are using Pudge from DotA that DotA used from Diablo? Sweet.
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On October 23 2010 16:03 drlame wrote:
So they are using Pudge from DotA that DotA used from Diablo? Sweet.
lol, instead of having Rylai the crystal maiden, they'll have Jaina the Ice mage.... with the exact same models.
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It won't be good unless they include some Lost Vikings in there...
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On October 23 2010 15:42 crazeman wrote:
The current custom map system is going to suck for blizzard dota. Basically, under the current system, every game you join will have at least 1 or 2 complete newbs who never played the game before. This will prevent any serious or semi-serious games from happening.
Chat channel will help this a little but people are probably going to end up using a bot to set up games again (ala DotA in WC3, bots would whisper you a custom game name to join). I really hope that blizzard will develop a better way to join custom games. Maybe if it gets popular enough they can develop some sort of rankings for the blizzard dota so people can matchup according to skill.. (one can wish right?)
Pretty sure they arn't looking to make it super competitive. They pretty much specifically said in the panel its just for fun, even though they plan to continually balance and update it.
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Will try it but i'll most probably stick to DotA/HoN/DotA 2
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Hoping they include the dude from Blackthorne.
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I highly doubt it will be as competitive/good as original dota and the current way to make custom maps is not going to help at all. Will try it out when it comes out but probably gonna wait for Dota2
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And blizzard will update it once and forget about it lol, I seriously hope its good, but I don't think it will be updated properly.
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As a long time DotA player I think this is a completely selfish move by Blizzard.
To step in and try to hijack a series that IceFrog has put SOOOOO many hours into and is just coming to fruition in the form of DotA2 (by valve) is ludicrous and rude.
There is no doubt that the hard core community will stick with ice frog but I fear this will split the soft core community and hurt the DotA scene as a whole.
Boo you blizzard.
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