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DotA was a well established Warcraft 3 custom game with the same name before Valve copied it.
by cm2012 7y ago
DotA was a well established Warcraft 3 custom game with the same name before Valve copied it.
- Reedx 7y agoRight, DotA was a mod no one asked for. Portal was actually a similar thing. It started as a student game called Narbacular Drop. Valve hired that team, who turned the concept into Portal. Likewise they hired Icefrog from DotA to work on DotA 2. That's a good strategy.
- mos_basik 7y agoIt's an excellent strategy. To add to your examples: Team Fortress was originally a Quake mod, and Valve hired its creators to head Team Fortress 2's development. Counter-Strike was originally a Half-Life mod before Valve bought the rights and made CS:S, then CS:GO.